Alumna
Competes in Olympic Trials
Former University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
student-athlete Robyn Jarocki finished 13th in the shot put
at the U.S. Olympic Track
and Field Trials June 27-July 6 in Eugene, Ore.
Jarocki competed in the second flight of the preliminaries
and threw the shot put a distance of 52-9 1/4. A total of
20 athletes
participated in the preliminaries, with the top 12 performers
qualifying for the finals.
Jarocki earned 17 All-American awards as
a member of the UW Oshkosh women's track and field team from
2003 to 2006. Her
amateur athletic
career is highlighted by 10 NCAA Division III titles, including
three in the indoor 20-pound weight throw. Jarocki also claimed
two NCAA Division III titles in the indoor shot put, outdoor
discus and outdoor shot put. The Merrill native is a 14-time
WIAC champion.
Jarocki helped UW Oshkosh capture five national championships,
including NCAA Division III indoor and outdoor titles in
both 2004 and 2006. The Titans also finished first in the
team standings
at the 2005 NCAA Division III Indoor Championship.
Student pitches against Team USA
Ronessa Stampfli, who completed her University
of Wisconsin Oshkosh women's softball career last spring, pitched
two
innings against
Team USA on June 17 at Zenoff Park in Stevens Point.
More than 2,500 people were in attendance
to watch the 2008 USA Olympic women's softball team continue
its "Bound
4 Beijing
Tour"
with a game against the Midwest All-Stars. The Midwest
All-Stars consisted of NCAA Division I, II and III
players from Wisconsin
and Minnesota.
Stampfli allowed just one earned run as Team
USA topped the Midwest All-Stars, 20-1. She gave up five hits
and walked
one batter.
Stampfli recorded the only strikeout of a Team USA
player, when she fanned Caitlin Lowe to end the third
inning.
Lowe was a four-time
NCAA Division I All-American at the University of
Arizona.
Stampfli, who received NCAA Division III
All-America first team honors by the National Fastpitch Coaches
Association in 2007,
ranks seventh in NCAA Division III history with
1,019
career
strikeouts.
WRST wins WIAC's Tom Butler Award
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh student
radio station WRST is the 2008 winner of the Wisconsin
Intercollegiate
Athletic
Conference's (WIAC) Tom Butler Award. It is
the first student organization to receive the honor.
The Tom Butler Award, established in 1998,
is presented annually to a member of the
print or
electronic
media for outstanding
coverage of WIAC athletics. The league's
nine sports information directors select the award
winner.
WRST, located at 90.3 on the FM radio dial,
began broadcasting diverse programming to
Oshkosh and
other Fox Valley
communities in 1966. In 2005, the radio station
began streaming all
local programming on its Web site (www.uwosh.edu/wrst.)
During the 2007-2008 academic year, WRST
broadcasted UW Oshkosh baseball, football,
men's and women's
basketball, men's and
women's soccer, women's softball, women's
volleyball and
wrestling sporting
events. In addition, the station covered
the 2008 WIAC and NCAA Division III wrestling
championships.
