TicketsCINCINNATI - The American Athletic Conference released its weekly awards with University of Cincinnati track and field student-athlete Brooke Catherine earning the AAC Female Field Athlete of the Week honor. The award, the first of Catherine's career, comes on the heels of her impressive, record-breaking performance at the Music City Challenge in Nashville, Tenn., over the weekend.
// CATHERINE UP AND OVER
The Music City Challenge has been a great meet for Catherine in recent years. Last year, she cleared 3.89m (12-09.00) for her indoor PR and a mark that ranked her #8 all-time in program history. She has bettered that mark several times this year and did so twice Saturday. Recently, she had cleared 4.12m before clearing 4.15m earlier in the competition Saturday and she followed that up with a second-attempt clearance at 4.26m (13-11.75) before missing three times at 4.31m (14-01.75). She finished third in the competition at 4.26m.
With that clearance, Catherine not only broke the school record of 4.25m that Mackenzie Fields cleared in 2013, but also improved her PR by 1' 2.75" over last year's best mark (3.89m). Catherine's record mark also ranks her #1 in the AAC by 4.5" and places her 16th on the NCAA order list. If the season ended today, Catherine would be the final qualifier into the NCAA Indoor Championships. If she maintains that position, or improves upon it at the AAC meet, she will qualify for her first national meet with the Bearcats.
// ADDING AWARDS
With this week's award, the Bearcats have now earned 10 total honors during the 2018 indoor season with seven different athletes earning those awards. Catherine joins Annette Echikunwoke (Dec. 12 and Jan. 30) and Loretta Blaut (Jan. 23 and Feb. 6) as Bearcats that have earned the women's field honor this season. The award for Catherine also marks the fourth week in a row a member of the UC women's team has won the field award and the fifth week in a row at least one UC woman has been honored (Tiona Lattimore, Jan. 16, track).
// IN THE BLOCKS
The final chance to compete before the championship season gets underway comes this Friday as a smaller group of Bearcats will travel north to Columbus for the Buckeye Tune-Up inside French Fieldhouse on the Ohio State campus. The AAC Indoor Championships are set for Friday and Saturday, February 23-24, at the CrossPlex in Birmingham, Ala.
2018 American Athletic Conference Awards - Indoor
Women's Track Athlete of the Week
Tiona Lattimore - Jan. 16
Bryana Robinson - Feb. 6
Women's Field Athlete of the Week
Annette Echikunwoke - Dec. 12 & Jan. 30
Loretta Blaut - Jan. 23 & Feb. 6
Brooke Catherine - Feb. 13
Men's Field Athlete of the Week
Adrian Valles - Jan. 16 & Jan. 23
Alex Bloom - Feb. 6
// CATHERINE UP AND OVER
The Music City Challenge has been a great meet for Catherine in recent years. Last year, she cleared 3.89m (12-09.00) for her indoor PR and a mark that ranked her #8 all-time in program history. She has bettered that mark several times this year and did so twice Saturday. Recently, she had cleared 4.12m before clearing 4.15m earlier in the competition Saturday and she followed that up with a second-attempt clearance at 4.26m (13-11.75) before missing three times at 4.31m (14-01.75). She finished third in the competition at 4.26m.
With that clearance, Catherine not only broke the school record of 4.25m that Mackenzie Fields cleared in 2013, but also improved her PR by 1' 2.75" over last year's best mark (3.89m). Catherine's record mark also ranks her #1 in the AAC by 4.5" and places her 16th on the NCAA order list. If the season ended today, Catherine would be the final qualifier into the NCAA Indoor Championships. If she maintains that position, or improves upon it at the AAC meet, she will qualify for her first national meet with the Bearcats.
// ADDING AWARDS
With this week's award, the Bearcats have now earned 10 total honors during the 2018 indoor season with seven different athletes earning those awards. Catherine joins Annette Echikunwoke (Dec. 12 and Jan. 30) and Loretta Blaut (Jan. 23 and Feb. 6) as Bearcats that have earned the women's field honor this season. The award for Catherine also marks the fourth week in a row a member of the UC women's team has won the field award and the fifth week in a row at least one UC woman has been honored (Tiona Lattimore, Jan. 16, track).
// IN THE BLOCKS
The final chance to compete before the championship season gets underway comes this Friday as a smaller group of Bearcats will travel north to Columbus for the Buckeye Tune-Up inside French Fieldhouse on the Ohio State campus. The AAC Indoor Championships are set for Friday and Saturday, February 23-24, at the CrossPlex in Birmingham, Ala.
2018 American Athletic Conference Awards - Indoor
Women's Track Athlete of the Week
Tiona Lattimore - Jan. 16
Bryana Robinson - Feb. 6
Women's Field Athlete of the Week
Annette Echikunwoke - Dec. 12 & Jan. 30
Loretta Blaut - Jan. 23 & Feb. 6
Brooke Catherine - Feb. 13
Men's Field Athlete of the Week
Adrian Valles - Jan. 16 & Jan. 23
Alex Bloom - Feb. 6