Big South Announces Men's Indoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week - Feb. 27
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (www.BigSouthSports.com) – The Big South Conference announced today its Men's Indoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week for competitions during the weekend of Feb. 20-23.
Winthrop’s 4x400m relay team of
Kendale Cooke,
Jurnii Lucas,
Kevin Brown and
Shane King was selected the Men’s Track Athlete of the Week, High Point’s
Reid Holloway was tabbed the Men’s Field Athlete of the Week, and Winthrop’s
DeAngelo Brooks (Columbia, S.C.) earned the Men’s Freshman of the Week honor.
Cooke, Lucas, Brown and King finished runner-up at the USC Invite with a time of 3:13.91, which ranks second in the league this season.
Holloway moved into second-place all-time in Big South history in the pole vault with a personal-best clearance of 5.32m at the Virginia Tech Challenge.
Brooks set a PR in the 60m dash at the USC Invite with a time of 6.97 to finish 10th overall, marking his highest standing in any event this season.