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USTFCCCA Names Division I Indoor National Athletes of the Year

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March 16, 2006

Xavier Carter (LSU), Johanna Nilsson (Northern Arizona), Trey Hardee (Texas) and Chelsea Johnson (UCLA) are the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Athletes of the Year, the USTFCCCA announced Thursday.

Carter and Nilsson are the Men's and Women's Indoor Track Athletes of the Year. Hardee and Johnson are the Men's and Women's Indoor Field Athletes of the Year.

The winners were determined in a vote by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association following last weekend's NCAA Division I Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark.

Carter won the 400-meter dash and anchored LSU to victory in the 4 x 400 relay at the NCAA indoor meet. He also finished a close second to Florida State's Walter Dix in the 200. Carter's time in the 400 (45.28 seconds) made him the third-fastest collegian in history and was faster than the winning time at the IAAF World Indoor Championships held the same weekend in Moscow.

The LSU sophomore moved to fifth on the all-time collegiate list with his 20.30 clocking in the 200. Completely an amazing two days of long sprinting, Carter ran a 45.9 anchor split on LSU's 4 x 400 relay team, which ran 3:04.01 to narrowly miss the collegiate record.

Nilsson's work in Fayetteville took a bit longer than Carter's but was no less remarkable. The Northern Arizona senior won the mile on Saturday night by more than two seconds in 4:37.78, then returned to the track 90 minutes later to win the 3,000-meter run in a personal-best 9:06.61.

The 2005 NCAA champion in cross country, Nilsson also won the mile and 3,000 at 2006 Big Sky Conference Indoor Championships, running a 4:44.74 mile in the 6,894-foot altitude of Flagstaff, Ariz.

Hardee, a Texas senior, set a collegiate record in the heptathlon at the New Mexico Multi-Events Meet in Albuquerque, scoring 6,208 points. At the NCAA Indoor Championships, Hardee set personal bests in three of the first five events before having to withdraw with an ankle injury.





Hardee's marks in the seven heptathlon events in his record-setting heptathlon were 6.73 in the 60-meter dash, 25 feet, 4½ inches in the long jump, 46-11½ in the shot put, 6-4¾ in the high jump, 7.87 in the 60-meter hurdles, 17-4¾ in the pole vault and 2:55.16 in the 1,000-meter run.

Johnson, a UCLA senior, finished her season with a bang. She cleared a collegiate-leading 14-5¼ to win the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, then won the NCAA title with a jump of 14-9, the third-highest mark in collegiate history.

To see the NCAA Division II and Division II indoor coaches and athletes of the year, visit www.ustfccca.org.

Yeah Trey and Chelsea!!!

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Trey Hardee named NCAA Division I Men’s Indoor Field Athlete of the Year

AUSTIN, Texas -- University of Texas senior Trey Hardee (Birmingham, Ala.) was selected Thursday as the NCAA Division I Men’s Indoor Field Athlete of the Year in a vote conducted by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

Hardee collected the top national honor after completing an outstanding indoor track and field season, during which he broke the NCAA heptathlon record previously held by his teammate, UT junior Donovan Kilmartin (Eagle, Idaho).

Hardee set a new collegiate heptathlon mark of 6,208 points at the New Mexico Multi-Events Meet in January and was on pace to break his own heptathlon record last weekend at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships before suffering an injury that forced him out of the competition.

Hardee had set personal bests in three of five heptathlon events before sustaining an injury upon completion of the 60-meter hurdles. He withdrew from the competition with the pole vault and the 1000 meters remaining.

Despite the injury, Hardee did not leave the NCAA championships empty-handed. He placed seventh in the long jump on day one, accounting for two of Texas’ 35 points.

Hardee is the reigning NCAA decathlon champion. He and his Texas teammates begin the outdoor season on Saturday at the Hurricane Invitational in Miami.

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Chelsea Johnson Named NCAA Indoor Field Athlete of the Year
Senior receives honor after winning pole vault title at NCAA Indoors last weekend

March 19, 2006

Senior Chelsea Johnson was named the Women's NCAA Indoor Field Athlete of the Year after winning her second NCAA title in the pole vault last weekend in Fayetteville, AR.

The winners were determined in a vote by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association of American following last weekend's NCAA Division I Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark.

Johnson, who won the NCAA Outdoor pole vault title in 2004 with an NCAA record jump of 15-0, won the indoor crown last weekend with a jump of 14-9 (No. 3 mark in indoor college history). She had three attempts at a new collegiate indoor record of 15-1, but did not clear the height. At the MPSF Championships, Johnson won with a mark of 14-5.25.

This season, Johnson has consistently cleared 14-feet plus during the indoor season and has already opened up the outdoor season with a mark of 14-3.25.

sweet! good for for them!