Southern Indiana’s Mary Ballinger (Chesterton, Ind. /Chesterton) is the Great Lakes Valley Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Week.
Ballinger took fifth place in the 3000 meters at the Indiana University Gladstein Invitational last weekend. Her time of 10:00.13 leads the GLVC list by 43 seconds. She is also currently ranked first in the country in the mile with a time of 4:54.64.
USI returns to Bloomington this weekend for the Indiana Relays.
Other top performers in the GLVC last week included Saint Joseph’s Alexis DeJean and Bellarmine’s Carissa Martin.