LANCASTER, Pa. – Senior Osazenoriuwa Ebose and junior Katie Lin led a list of ten Swarthmore student-athletes who were named to the All-Centennial Conference track & field teams, as announced by the league office on Thursday, March 5. Both student-athletes earned All-Centennial Conference First Team recognition, while Ebose was also the winner of the Centennial Conference Women's Field Athlete of the Year and Lin was tabbed the league's women's distinguished scholar-athlete award winner.
 
All-Centennial first-team honors are earned by finishing in first place in an event, including relays, at the conference championship meet which was contested last weekend in Haverford, Pa., at Haverford College. Second-team honors go to student-athletes who finish as an event runner-up, and third-place finishers garner honorable mention.
 
Ebose easily won the shot put at the Centennial Conference Championships with a toss that sailed 44-feet, 8.2-inches, which was four feet better than the runner-up finisher. In addition, her mark was a school record and a meet record. Ebose has now been named all-conference seven times in her career during the indoor and outdoor seasons, including four times in the shot put. Ebose is ranked 17th nationally in the shot put, placing her squarely on the bubble for a potential invite to the NCAA Championships for the first time.
 
Lin received her first major award from the league for posting the highest cumulative grade point average among the all-conference winners. She made the all-conference first team for running the 400-meter leg of the winning distance medley relay squad that clocked in at 12:32.71. Senior Liz Tawa, freshman Jenn Beltran and sophomore Indy Reid-Shaw also competed on the winning relay.
 
Sophomore Lulu Allen-Waller, junior Sarah Nielsen and sophomore Katherine Zavez each earned honorable mention status for placing third in an individual event. Allen-Waller completed the 60-meter high hurdles in 9.42 seconds, while Nielsen finished the mile in 5:01.40. Zavez, who won a Centennial Conference championship as a starting defender on the women's soccer team, cleared 9-0.25 in the pole vault.
 
Two student-athletes, seniors Julia Nee and Jason Heo, were voted to the all-sportsmanship team.
 
The Swarthmore track & field programs will be heading to Florida for spring break and will open the outdoor season at the South Florida Invitational in Tampa on Friday, March 13. Ebose also awaits a potential invite to the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships, which will take place in Winston-Salem, N.C. over the same weekend.

Notes: Katie Lin is the fourth Swarthmore student-athlete to be named the Centennial Conference Distinguished Scholar-Athlete during the 2014-15 academic year ... Soccer standouts Alec McClean and Emma Sindelar received the recognition in the fall and women's swimmer Supriya Davis also earned the honor this winter.