Melissa Buche

  • Award
    Women's Indoor Field Athlete of the Week
  • Week Of
    1/14/2008
  • Sport
    Women's Outdoor Track & Field
  • School
    Saint Joseph's
  • Year
  • Position
  • Hometown
  • High School

Saint Joseph’s College’s Melissa Buche (Lowell, Ind.) is the Great Lakes Valley Conference Women’s Indoor Field Athlete of the Week.

 

Buche, a freshman for the Pumas, posted a NCAA Division II provisional qualifying mark in the high jump at the Eastern Illinois University Mega Meet on Saturday. She finished in sixth-place at the meet by clearing 5 feet 6 inches.

 

Miami’s (OH) Kelsey McHugh won the event with a jump of 5 feet 10 inches. Buche was the top-finishing Division II athlete in the event.

 

Buche’s jump places her eighth on the NCAA Division II performance list in the high jump.

 

Saint Joseph’s will return to action at Knowling Fieldhouse, site of the GLVC Indoor Championships, for the Wabash Invitational on Saturday.