MILWAUKEE, Wis. (naccsports.org) --- Aurora University senior Deyanneira Colon Maldonado (women's track), Milwaukee School of Engineering senior Evan Ploeckelman (men's track), St. Norbert College junior Ezra Schermacher (men's field) and ssophomore Eden Maranell (women's field) have been named Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) Indoor Track & Field Student-Athletes of the Week for the week of Feb. 24-March 1, 2025, as a result of winning one of four major honors at the 2025 NACC Championships.

Women's Track --- Deyanneira Colon Maldonado, Sr., Aurora University
Colon Maldonado, a senior from Aurora, Illinois, won her second consecutive NACC Women's Track Athlete of the Meet honor after sweeping the four longest individual running events - the 800, the mile, the 3,000, and the 5,000.

She kicked off her championships with a meet-record performance in Friday's 5,000. Colon Maldonado stopped the clock in 17:17.54, edging Concordia Wisconsin's Ainara Sainz De Rozas by just .45 seconds. She opened Saturday's competition with a win in the mile, then added the 800 title, before capping the day by edging Sainz De Rozas for the 3,000-meter crown in another championship-record performance. Colon Maldonado's winning 3K time of 9:54.92 broke her own championship record of 10:09.61 set just last year. Three of Colon Maldonado's victories came by less than a second, and the aggregate margin of victory for the four races was just 5.44 seconds.

Women's Field --- Eden Maranell, So., St. Norbert College
Maranell, a sophomore from Howards Grove, Wisconsin, repeated as NACC Women's Field Athlete of the Meet after posting three event wins and a seventh-place finish. On Friday, she won the pentathlon (3,172 points) and triple jump (11.33 meters; 37-1 1/4). Maranell then added the win in the long jump (5.51m; 18-1) before tying for the fourth-best clearance (1.54m; 5-0 1/2) in the high jump. She was awarded seventh-place points once tiebreakers were employed.

Men's Track --- Evan Ploeckelman, Sr., Milwaukee School of Engineering
Ploeckelman, a senior from Muskego, Wisconsin, struck claim to the title of this season's NACC's fastest man indoors by winning both the 60- and 200-meter dashes. He posted a winning time of 6.93 in the 60 final after setting a new NACC Championship record by posting the top qualifying time of 6.86 seconds. Ploeckelman (22.39) timed his lean at the line correctly in the 200, winning by just 0.01 seconds over Benedictine's Amari Sanders (22.40).

Men's Field --- Ezra Schermacher, Jr., St. Norbert College
Schermacher, a junior from Plymouth, Wisconsin, won the high jump and long jump, and took second in the pole vault. He cleared 2.01 meters (6-7) to win the high jump and 6.89 meters (22-7 1/4) to win the long jump, and cleared 4.64 meters (15-2 3/4) in the pole vault. On the track, Schermacher also won the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.54 seconds. This is the third year in a row Schermacher has been named NACC Indoor Field Athlete of the Meet.