Sabrina Southerland, Georgetown leads the NCAA in the 800-meters.
Georgetown Repeats Sweep of Weekly Track Awards, St. John’s and DePaul Honored For Field Performances
NEW YORK – For the second consecutive week, Georgetown’s men and women exceled on the track, with Sabrina Southerland marking the No. 1 time in the NCAA this season in the 800-meter run and Ahmed Bile with a sub-4 mile time that ranks sixth nationally. St. John’s Nyla Woods repeated for the Women’s Field Athlete of the Week and DePaul’s Brian Mada also marked his second weekly honor in field performances this season.
BIG EAST Men’s Track Athlete of the Week
AHMED BILE, Georgetown, Sr., Annandale, Va., Middle distance
Bile led the Hoyas with a first place time of 3:57.84 in the mile run at the BU Scarlet & White Invitational in Boston, Mass. Bile’s time leads the conference and is sixth overall nationally. His time ranks second in Hoya history, only to John Gregorek who ran 3:57.36 in 1982. It is Bile’s fourth sub-four mile of his career. He had three during the 2015 indoor season.
BIG EAST Men’s Field Athlete of the Week
BRIAN MADA, DePaul, Fr., Manicaland, Zimbabwe, Jumps
A two-time BIG EAST Field Athlete of the Week, Mada continues to score PR’s in the triple jump hitting a new distance of 14.98 meters (49’ 1.75”) to place eighth in the event but mark the top performance in the BIG EAST list. His performance is currently 78
th in the nation. He leads the BIG EAST by 1.11 meters (3’ 7.5”).
BIG EAST Women’s Track Athlete of the Week
SABRINA SOUTHERLAND, Georgetown, Jr., New York, N.Y., Middle-Distance
Southerland earns BIG EAST Women’s Track Athlete of the Week for the second time this season as she ran a nation-leading 2.03.10 en route to a women’s 800-meter run title at the Villanova Invitational, held at Ocean Breeze in Staten Island, home site of the Indoor BIG EAST Championships, Feb. 26-27. Southerland set the nation’s bar high competing against Villanova’s Siofra Cleirigh Buttner, the only two to break 2:04 in the race. In the process the junior broke her own school record in the e vent and becomes one of five student-athletes in school history to break 2:05 in the women’s 800.
BIG EAST Women’s Field Athlete of the Week
NYLA WOODS, St. John’s, So., Fayetteville, Ga., Throws
Repeating as the BIG EAST Women’s Field Athlete of the Week for the second consecutive week, Woods once again earned a top BIG EAST performance in the weight throw, besting her top performance by a meter. Woods became the Metropolitan Champion in the weight throw with a distance of 19.36 meters, marking the 40th best distance in the nation and fifth best toss in school history. The Metropolitan Championships were held at Ocean Breeze, site of the Indoor BIG EAST Championships, Feb. 26-27.
NOTEABLE PERFORMANCES
- Butler’s Olivia Pratt clocked the nation’s seventh-fastest time this season at Notre Dame’s Meyo Invite, taking seventh in the women’s 3,000-meter run with a time of 9:18.46. Pratt was eat out only by four collegiate athletes and two pros. Her personal record trails only fellow All-American and 2015 alumna Mara Olson as fastest in school history.
- DePaul’s men’s DMR team of Jeffrey Sattler, Isaac Walker, Scott Arsenault and Chris Korabik won the event at the Meyo Invitational with a school-record time of 9:53.97. The time broke the previous 32-year-old DePaul record by more than four seconds. The time ranks third in the BIG EAST and 27th nationally.
- Marquette sophomore Cassy Goodrich broke the 16-year old school record in the 400-meter dash with a time of 54.72, taking second place at the Meyo Invitational in a field of nearly 70 sprinters.
2015-16 Indoor Track & Field Weekly Honors
Men's Track: Jordan Mann, Providence (Dec. 8); Joseph White, Georgetown (Jan. 19, Feb. 3); Eric Peterson, Butler (Jan. 23); Ahmed Bile, Georgetown (Feb. 8)
Men's Field: Trevor Kintyhtt, DePaul (Dec. 8); Brian Mada, DePaul (Jan. 19, Feb. 8); Zachary Polk, Xavier (Jan. 26); Max Bullard, Marquette (Feb. 3)
Women's Track: Sabrina Southerland, Georgetown (Dec. 8, Feb. 8), Pariis Garcia, St. John’s (Jan. 19); Katherine Turner, Butler (Jan. 23); Andrea Keklak, Georgetown (Feb. 3)
Women's Field: Monique Felix, Marquette (Dec. 8); Gemma Tedeschi, Marquette (Jan. 23); Nyla Woods, St. John’s (Feb. 3, Feb. 8)