Schetter Named Field Athlete of the Year

For Immediate Release: Friday, March 20, 2009

New Orleans, La. – University of Wisconsin-La Crosse senior Caitlin Schetter of Kiel (H.S.) has been named the 2009 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) National Indoor Track & Field Women's Field Athlete of the Year. It marks the second straight season she has earned the honor.

Selected the 2009 USTFCCCA Midwest Region Indoor Field Athlete of the Year, Schetter won her second consecutive indoor title in the long jump (18-10) March 13 at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Championships at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She became the second athlete in NCAA III history to win back-to-back national indoor long jump titles, joining Tara (Harding) Jaeger from UW-Oshkosh in 1995 and 1996. Schetter, Jaeger and Sandy Shelton (Christopher Newport University, Va.) are the only multiple-winners in the long jump. Shelton won in 1988 and 1991.

Schetter also placed second in the triple jump (39-5) and seventh in the 55-meter dash (7.17) March 14.

A six-time NCAA III Indoor All-American, Schetter won the long jump championship in 2008 and 2009 and finished seventh in 2007. She was second in the triple jump this season and fifth in 2007 and placed seventh in the 55-meter dash in 2009.

Schetter was selected the 2009 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Field Performer of the Meet after winning the long jump (19-5 1/2), triple jump (38-11 3/4) and 55-meter dash (7.25) at UW-Stout. It marked the second straight year she earned the conference honor.

UW-L finished second at the 2009 NCAA Division III Indoor Championships and captured its third straight WIAC title.