Manchester Picked to Finish Second in HCAC Preseason Poll

11/15/2022 11:19:00 AM

CARMEL, Ind. - The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) announced the 2022-23 Men's Indoor Track and Field preseason poll on Tuesday, November 15th.

HCAC Preseason Poll & Athletes to Watch

In a vote among league coaches, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology was selected to win the league after picking up 6 first-place votes and earning 78 points in the poll.

Manchester earned 4 first-place votes and 76 points for a second-place finish prediction. Transylvania (62), Hanover (50), and Bluffton (47) rounded out the top half of Tuesday's preseason poll.

Six Spartans were selected as "Athletes to Watch" by the HCAC. The list includes distance runners Enrique Salazar (Plymouth, Ind., Plymouth) and Connor Havens (LaPorte, Ind., LaPorte). Tristen Bronaugh (Crawfordsville, Ind., Crawfordsville), Gabe Melvin (Jacksonville, Fla., Atlantic Coast), Gabe Hendricks (Fort Wayne, Ind., Bishop Luers), and Ben Villafuerte (Angola, Ind., Angola) were also selected as "Athletes to Watch" this season.

The indoor track and field season will begin on Friday January 13th at the Friday Night Spikes Opener at Rose-Hulman. Meet time is scheduled for 6 p.m.

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