Melissa Skiba, Track & Field

Melissa Skiba, Track & Field

The Cal Lutheran women's track and field team won the 2014 SCIAC title outright thanks to an extraordinary effort from junior harrier Melissa Skiba. The distance runner did not only run three events at the meet, which included five races, but she went on to win two individual SCIAC crowns and was runner-up in her third race. She pushed her body to limits no other competitor did over the weekend. Skiba won the 800m in a CLU school record time of 2:15.24 after running the event for the first time less than a month ago, went on to win her signature event, the 1,500m, by more than four seconds in 4:32.18 and came back to run the 5,000m in 17:28.69 to take second. Currently she is ranked nationally in all three events and will represent CLU at NCAA Division III Championships in late May.