Millersville

Sprints, jumps or throws, Carol Forry Roth could do it all for the Millersville University women’s track and field team. The two-time ECAC Division II Indoor Pentathlon Champion and two-time PSAC Outdoor Heptathlon Champion set Millersville records in the 100-meter hurdles and the long jump that are still standing more than 25 years later.
 
As a Marauder from 1986-89, Roth not only won the conference heptathlon championship twice, but she also won the 100-meter hurdles at the conference championships in 1988 and 1989. Those exploits landed her the Outstanding Track Athlete Award at the 1989 PSAC Outdoor Championships. She broke onto the scene in the spring of 1987, tying a Millersville record of 14.8 in the 100-meter hurdles. She also set the team’s season best in the long jump (17-5 ½) and the triple jump (35-8). She was just getting started, though.
 
In the 1987-88 indoor season, Roth won the ECAC Indoor Pentathlon with 3,043 points and set a school record in the 55-meter hurdles at 8.60. During the outdoor season, she reset her record in the 100-meter hurdles at the PSAC Championships and totaled 4,143 points for first place in the heptathlon.
 
Her best season came as a senior, though. She won the ECAC pentathlon for a second consecutive season and was named outstanding track athlete at the conference championships. She established a long-standing school record in the 100-meter hurdles at the PSAC Championships, posting a time of 14.34. She finished third in the long jump with a school record leap of 18-4 ½, and she won the heptathlon with 4,385 points. 
 
Roth graduated with bachelor’s degree in Earth science and earned a master’s degree in 21^st century teaching and learning from Wilkes University in 2009. She also received a certification in administration and supervision from Johns Hopkins University in 2012. She currently works as an instructional technology coach after 15 years as an Earth and space science teacher in the Central York School District. She also works as an adjunct professor at York College and instructs graduate courses for educators in technology integration through Eduspire for Brandman University.

She and her husband Greg Roth have three children: Adam Roth, Derek Shirey and Cassandra Roth.