Hilt finishes 17th in hammer at NCAA Championships
PITTSFORD, N.Y. (May 27, 2023) –Rutgers University-Camden senior
Emily Hilt finished 17th out of 22 athletes in the women's hammer throw at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships here Saturday.
Hilt, competing for the second straight year at the NCAA Championships, had a top throw of 50.37 meters in the event. Alexis Boykin of MIT won the national championship with a throw of 59.58 meters.
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The NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships were held at St. John Fisher University in Pittsford, New York, a suburb of Rochester.
Hilt entered the NCAA Championships with the 12th-best hammer throw in the country this season, a PR of 54.33-meter mark on April 7 at the Osprey Open. That throw broke her old Rutgers-Camden record of 54.29, set on April 1, 2023 at the Danny Curran Invitational at Widener University.
In her first trip to the NCAA Championships in 2022, Hilt finished 14th of 22 athletes with a hammer throw of 49.50 meters.
Hilt's performance capped a tremendous senior season in which she raised the bar on her own program hammer record and dominated the field events at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships while earning honors as the women's Outstanding Field Athlete of the meet. Hilt won the NJAC hammer throw title for the second straight year, finishing first in a field of 24 athletes while setting a meet record of 54.19 meters. That throw broke the meet mark she set in 2022 with a throw of 51.02 meters.
Hilt's hammer title at the conference meet earned her NJAC First Team recognition in the event. She also captured NJAC Honorable Mention in both the shot put (12.03 meters, third of 25 athletes) and the discus (35.92 meters, third of 22 athletes).
Hilt holds four program records, including outdoor marks for the hammer throw and the shot put (13.03 meters at the NJAC Championships on May 9, 2022). She holds the indoor records for the shot put (13.01 meters at the NJAC Championships on Feb. 24, 2020) and the weight throw (16.60 meters at the NJAC Div. III Indoor Championships on Feb. 20, 2023). She previously held the outdoor program record in the discus (37.49 meters) until teammate
Alexis Marini broke that mark this spring.
Between her indoor and outdoor seasons, Hilt earned 13 All-NJAC honors. In addition to her three All-NJAC outdoor honors this season, she also was named NJAC First Team in the hammer and NJAC Second Team in the shot put in 2022. She captured NJAC Second Team in the discus and Honorable Mention in both the hammer and the shot put in 2021. Her indoor honors include NJAC Second Team in the hammer (2022-23 season), NJAC Second Team in both the shot put and the weight throw (2021-22) and NJAC First Team in the shot put and Honorable Mention in the weight throw in 2019-20.
Hilt also won the ECAC Championships in all three of her events last spring, capturing the hammer, shot put and discus titles. During the 2019-20 indoor season, she was the ECAC champion in the weight throw and the runner-up in the shot put.
Hilt has captured eight honors as the NJAC's Field Athlete of the Week. She is a 16-time honoree as Rutgers-Camden's Raptor of the Week, including May 8, 2023.
Hilt was named Rutgers-Camden's Woman of the Year by the New Jersey Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women on Feb. 3, 2021.
A former track All-American for Rowan College at Gloucester County (RCGC), Hilt is a Childhood Studies major at Rutgers-Camden with minors in Psychology and Philosophy. She has been named NJAC Academic Honorable Mention for the 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 scholastic years, with this year's team scheduled to be released in June. A Dean's List student, she is a seven-time member of the Rutgers-Camden Athletic Director's Honor Roll, pending the release of the 2023 spring semester AD Honor Roll later this month.
NCAA Div. III Outdoor Track & Field Championships
(at St. John Fisher University, Pittsford, N.Y.)
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Women's Hammer,
Emily Hilt, 50.37 meters
