Nate Perry, CMUChippewas.com
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – As CMU freshman Jack Dodge came across the line to win his heat in the men’s 200-meter prelims on Friday at the MAC Indoor Track & Field Championships, two on-looking athletes from conference powerhouse Akron looked at each other in disbelief.
“From Central Michigan?” one quizzically asked the other.
It was the physical manifestation of what the Chippewa program set out to accomplish on Championship Weekend: Surprise some people.
A trio of young CMU distance men provided what was probably the biggest surprise from an outsider’s standpoint in the 5,000.