NEW ORLEANS, La. - For the third time in her stellar career at Frostburg State University, senior hurdler Sumer Rohrs (Frostburg, Md./Forest) has been named as the USTFCCCA's Mideast Region Women's Track Athlete of the Year. The award is the first for Rohrs during the oudoor season as the first two came during the 2007 and 2008 indoor seasons.

Rohrs, a four-time National Champion, will look to add to that total this weekend as she will compete in the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Championships at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. Rohrs will compete in two events, the 100-meter and 400-meter hurdles. She is currently tied for second all-time in school history with those four championships and with two more this weekend, will hold the most national titles in school history.

Rohrs currently holds the nation's second fastest time in the 100-hurdles (14.04) after winning the event this past weekend at the ECAC Championships. A three-time Indoor National Champion in the 55-meter hurdles, Rohrs will try and defend her one and only 100-meter hurdle national title after winning the event last season at the outdoor championships with a time of 13.68.

Rohrs, the 2009 Most Outstanding Female Performer at the ECAC Championships, will also try for her first NCAA Championship in the 400-meter hurdles after garnering All-American honors last spring after capturing second place (60.71) in the event at the outdoor championships. This year, Rohrs holds the nation's top time in the event after winning an ECAC Championship this past weekend with a time of 60.97.

On the season, Rohrs has a combined 10 victories in the 100 and 400-meter hurdles including a 400 hurdle victory at the Mason-Dixon Conference Championships and wins in both of the those events at the Mason-Dixon Invitational at Gettysburg College.

However, Rohrs holds an edge in both events over the rest of the field that will be competing this weekend. Earlier this spring at the Don Frail Invitational at Marietta College, Rohrs set the Don Drumm Stadium record in both hurdles events after running a 14.41 in the 100 and a 1:01.91 in the 400 hurdles. Overall, she has four victories in four events in two trips to Marietta College.