Senior Hannah Chappell-Dick won the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Championships Saturday, Oct. 31 in Bridgewater and led 91短视频 to a third-place finish in the conference. She covered the 6K course in a time of 22:21.9. (Photo by Michael Sheeler)

Senior Hannah Chappell-Dick wins ODAC cross country title, adds to career honors

For the first time in 13 years, 91短视频 has an individual cross country champion.聽 (Bluffton, Ohio/Bluffton) continued her incredible senior season by winning the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Championships Saturday, Oct. 31 in Bridgewater. She covered the 6K course in a time of 22:21.9. She now owns All-ODAC First Team hardware from all four of her years.

She becomes the first Eastern Mennonite harrier to win an ODAC championship since Hall of Honor member won her second straight title in 2002.聽The last winner for the men was Lynn Stoltzfus in 1994. Including Chappell-Dick, the women’s team landed three all-conference finishers and took third place.聽 The men had one all-conference runner and were fifth overall.

Hannah Chappell-Dick, with teammates Jolee Paden (121) and Kat Lehman (119) competes in the ODAC preview meet earlier this season. (Photo by Scott Eyre)

Chappell-Dick has also won four of the five official races she has run this season.聽 After her Oct. 19 performance at the CNU Invitational, topping a field of mostly D-I runners along with the D-III regionally-ranked Christopher Newport squad, she garnered her fourth ODAC Runner of the Week award.

The squad totaled 70 points as a team, finishing just behind second-place Bridgewater at 64.聽Washington and Lee won the team title with 46 points. Rounding out the scoring were (Dover, Ohio/Dover), (St. Joseph, Ill./St. Joseph-Ogden), (Harrisonburg, Va./Harrisonburg), (Goshen, Ind./Goshen), (Gig Harbor, Wash./Peninsula), and (King George, Va./King George).

Not just running honors

Chappell-Dick is a senior majoring in with minors in , and . She plans on spending a year after graduation working with an intentional community/service program called (through the DOOR program) in Atlanta, Georgia, where she鈥檇 also continue training and competing with the Atlanta Track Club.

Her decision after that depends on how her training is going, she says. She may enroll in graduate school for a master鈥檚 in public health or an MBA. Chappell-Dick says she鈥檚 also interested in coaching.

She talks about her choice to attend and compete at 91短视频, as well as future plans, in .

Chappell-Dick was a two-time All-American in track and field last year, finishing second in the indoor mile and third in the 1500m at those respective NCAA D.III championships in 2015.

For now, though, there鈥檚 the regional and national meets to finish out the cross country season and an indoor and outdoor season of track to look forward to, as well as juggling the demands of the classroom and her extra-curricular activities.

Giving back

Chappell-Dick celebrates after her ODAC championships win. She intends to keep competing after graduation and hopes to coach in the future. (Photo by Michael Sheeler)

A leader in the classroom as well as on the field, Chappell-Dick is serving as a student representative on the聽 throughout the 2015-16 academic year.

She is also working with the athletic department to rebuild the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee at 91短视频, in which student-athletes are able to give feedback on proposed NCAA legislation, advocate for student-athletes on campus, and serve the community through various projects.

With teammate , Chappell-Dick started a track club called 鈥淔LASH鈥 for 10 to 12-year-olds, which meets twice a week in the spring. She鈥檚 also active in Big Brothers Big Sisters and at Shalom Mennonite Church.

Working around her athletic schedule, Chappell-Dick completed her cross-cultural requirement during a summer 2014 trip to Guatemala. 鈥淲e stayed with host families and attended language and cultural lessons during the day at CASAS, a program through Semilla Seminary in Guatemala City,鈥 she said.

This semester, she is living in an intentional community theme house on campus. The goal of residents of 鈥淏ridge House鈥 is to 鈥渂ridge the gap鈥 between first-year students and seniors with twice-monthly social gatherings.

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