Former Conference Recognizes Pair of Track Athletes

YORK, Pa. — One was a runner and the other a thrower, and together they won a total of eight Capital Athletic Conference titles in the sport of women's track and field while they attended Goucher during the last decade. Today, Jana White and Natalie Williams were both named to the CAC's Silver Anniversary Women's Track & Field Team.

The CAC, which accepted Goucher as a member in 1991, is in its 25th year of intercollegiate varsity competition, and to recognize the occasion, it has or will announce a Silver Anniversary Team in 19 championship sports over the course of the 2014-15 academic year. Each Silver Anniversary Team will feature 25 former or current standout student-athletes and the process which determined the make-up of the teams was primarily based on season-ending conference awards as voted by the conference's head coaches.

White's four CAC titles were spaced out over three years. In 2003, she placed first in the 100-meter dash and second in the 200-meter dash at the CAC outdoor championship meet and was selected Rookie of the Year by the head coaches. The following year, she was the first runner to cross the finish line in the 400-meter dash and took second place in the 100 and 200 at the conference meet.

White, who graduated from Goucher in 2005, repeated as CAC champion in the 400 and added the 200 title to her list of accomplishments as a senior.

Williams holds the distinction of being the first female to represent Goucher at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships, qualifying in the hammer throw in 2003 and again the following year. In her first appearance at nationals in 2003, she placed 19th overall with an effort of 137'2"; as a senior, she unleashed a throw of 152'9", good for 11th place.

While Williams excelled in the hammer, she was a force in all of the throwing events during her four years at Goucher. She was either the CAC champion or runner-up in the shot put all four seasons, she claimed the CAC outdoor title in the hammer throw as a sophomore in 2002 and again as a senior in 2004, and she placed as high as third one year in the discus at the conference meet. In fact, she was the first female athlete from Goucher to win a CAC title in the sport of track and field when she was the top performer in both the shot put and hammer throw in 2002.

In both 2003 and 2004, Williams was selected CAC Women's Track & Field Athlete of the Year in balloting by the conference's head coaches.

Goucher remained a member of the CAC for 16 years before leaving to join the Landmark Conference in 2007.

For the entire CAC Silver Anniversary Women's Track & Field Team, click here.