Five track and field student-athletes earned Lone Star Conference Athlete of the Week honors for their efforts, league officials announced today.
MEN’S TRACK
Sergio Rios, Texas A&M University - Kingsville, So., Brownsville, Texas, James Pace HS
Rios continued his winning streak in the 400-meter hurdles last week at the LSU Tiger Relays. In his preliminary heat he clocked a career best 52.18 that ranks #2 in the nation. In the finals, he posted a time of 52.55 to win. He has now won the 400 hurdles at all four invitationals he has competed in this year. He also ran a leg on the 4x400-meter relay team that finished seventh, but had a time of 3:14.81 which is an NCAA Division II provisional mark.
CO-MEN’S FIELD
Austin Slone, Angelo State University, So., Friendswood, Texas, Friendswood HS
All Slone wanted was a clean jump at the North Texas Spring Classic (2/26). He scratched on five of six attempts in the long jump, but then posted the third-best triple jump in the nation and second in the Lone Star Conference with a personal-best of 50’4.5” on his very first attempt as he bested four Division I athletes to win the event. The mark was nearly a foot and a half longer than his previous provisional mark this season and the sophomore from Friendswood, Texas, hit two more marks that would have ranked among the top in Division II before the end of his series.
Jonathan Lindsey, West Texas A&M University, So., Strawn, Texas, Strawn HS
Lindsey set an NCAA Divisional II provisional mark in the discus throw last weekend with a toss of 171’ 11”, while taking first-place in the event at the CSU-Pueblo Open. The sophomore thrower beat out all of his competition, which included Division I athletes from Colorado and Wyoming and his mark was more than two meters further than his next closest competitors.
WOMEN’S TRACK
Elodie Barre’, University of the Incarnate Word, Fr., Yutz, France, Notre Dame Thionville HS
At the Victor Lopez Invitational at Rice University, Barre’ gained one provisional spot for the NCAA D-II National Championships and improved her status in another event. She ran a 24.37 in the 200-meters to finish second and earn a provisional standing, while setting a school record. Then, Barre’ went 18’ 9.75” in the long jump to improve on her previous 18’ 7”which was a provisional distance. In the 100-meters she ran a 12.13 to finish second and to just miss the provisional standard of 12.05. The 12.13 in the 100 was also just off the UIW mark of 12.12.
WOMEN’S FIELD
Jayda Spencer, Angelo State University, Jr., Del Rio, Texas, Comstock HS
Spencer hit a provisional mark in the discus with a season-best throw of 147’5” at the North Texas Spring Classic which was also the fifth-best throw in Division II this season. She finished fifth in the event, behind four Division I athletes, and was one of four Rambelles among the top six in the javelin, with her second-place throw of 119’2”. Spencer became the second Rambelle to hit a provisional mark in the discus and has the third-best throw in the Lone Star Conference this season.