Mids Capture All Three League Weekly Honors - NAVY OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE

Mids Capture All Three League Weekly Honors

Kyleigh Millhouse - Track, Mia Blundetto - Field, Joy Nameth - Rookie

	Patriot League Track Athlete of the Week, Navy's Kyleigh Millhouse

Jan. 9, 2008

CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - For the second time in just over a year, the Navy women's track & field swept the Patriot League's three weekly awards, it was announced by the league office on Tuesday. Kyleigh Millhouse (Sr./Boiling Springs, Pa.) earned track athlete-of-the-week recognition, while Mia Blundetto (So./Apple Valley, Minn.) was named field athlete of the week and Joy Nameth (Fr./Walden, Colo.) claimed rookie-of-the-week distinction.

Millhouse, a Second-Team All-Patriot League cross country runner this past fall, paced the field in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 10:28.84 for Navy's lone track victory at the UMES Invitational. The effort was only 11.41 seconds off her personal record and 43.60 seconds faster than the next-best non-Navy runner on Friday afternoon. This league's weekly honors are the first for Millhouse on the track in her career.

Blundetto accounted for Navy's other event title at the UMES Invitational on Friday, winning the weight throw with a career-best distance of 41'5-3/4" (12.64 meters). Her first-career victory in the event helped her earn Patriot League weekly kudos for the first time in her career.

Nameth took a significant step forward in the shot put to open the new year on Friday, as she placed second with a toss of 41'3-1/4" (12.58 meters). Her performance was less than a foot off the best mark of the day and more than three feet better than her season-opening showing in December. This is the first league rookie-of-the-week recognition for Nameth in her young collegiate career.

In its first action in a month due to final exams and semester break, Navy produced 15 top-three performances at the UMES Invitational. One day later, two Navy pole vaulters took part in the 18th annual National Pole Vault Summit in Reno, Nev.

The Midshipmen (2-0) will return to action on Saturday, Jan. 19, when they host George Mason, James Madison, Mount St. Mary's, North Carolina, VCU and William & Mary in Halsey Field House.