Scott, who ran an 8.05 to qualify sixth in the preliminaries, is the only Marauder to compete at the D-II indoor nationals three straight seasons. Scott won the 60-meter hurdles in 2018 and finished 12th in 2017.
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“I was focused on running a good race and am happy with the result,” Scott said. “We had struggled a little bit in the preliminary round and it was good to bounce back with a strong performance in the final. From my position, I really couldn’t tell how close it was at the finish line. While I didn’t come in first, I still feel good about the overall performance and earning All-American status.”
Scott now looks to regain his 110-meter outdoor hurdles national championship. He won the D-II title in 2017 and finished sixth last season.
“I told Juan I was really proud of the way he competed this week,” Central State coach James Rollins said. “0.01 seconds is all that separated him from becoming a back-to-back champion and I think he handled the result with confidence in class.”
Ewert, Glaze repeat: Beavercreek junior Taylor Ewert and Greenon junior Sean Glaze repeated as one-mile racewalk champions at the New Balance Nationals Indoor in New York last Saturday.
Ewert won in 6 minutes, 34.53 seconds for a 40-second victory. The two-time champion’s goal was to lower her meet record of 6:28.21, which she set last year. Ewert also holds racewalk meet records for a freshman (7:06.32), sophomore (6:45.68) and junior (6:28.21).
“That was my major goal going into this,” Ewert told Milesplit.com of attempting to break her record. ” … We wanted to go out and really push for that PR. As my senior year is coming around I don’t have that many opportunities left to lower the record. We went after it and I fell a little short. But 6:34 is still awesome and I’m beyond happy.”
Ewert also competed in the two-mile championship race on Sunday. She finished fifth in 10:19.14 behind a field of national standouts including winner Katelyn Tuohy (9:51.05) of New York, Katelynne Hart (9:58.42) of Illinois and Sydney Thorvaldso (10:01.52) of Wyoming.
Glaze won his second championship in 6:41.89, beating New Jersey’s Samuel Allen to the line by 0.02 seconds. Glaze won last year’s title in 7:07.05. He crossed the line second but was awarded the title after the competitor who finished first was disqualified for breaking form too many times.
“Last year I was a little bit not so nervous because nobody had heard of me,” Glaze told Milesplit.com. “This year everybody was expecting me to win.”
Glaze also won the New Balance Nationals Outdoor two-mile title last summer in 14:24.95.
“Three laps to go I see him blow by me,” Glaze said of Allen passing him. “He came out of nowhere. I was this close to giving up. Second place isn’t that bad. I saw him get a few paddles (for breaking form) and I knew he would have to slow down.”
Glaze passed Allen with 150 meters left. Allen regained the lead with 50 meters to go before Glaze got him at the line.
“That was the most my legs have ever hurt aftet a race,” said Glaze, who thought he lost the race.
“I didn’t want to get too excited because I wanted to see the (official results) first. … I didn’t want to get upset so I didn’t get too excited,” he said. “I got to break the tape and most importantly my time was about 15 seconds faster.”
Beavercreek junior Savannah Roark also competed at the New Balance meet. She finished second in the two-mile Emerging Elite race in 10:45.75. Her time was the second best in Ohio and No. 10 in the nation for the indoor season.
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