| Teddy Williams | Aaron Fox |
FRISCO ? Nine days after winning its first Southland Conference Outdoor Championship in seven years and completing the first indoor/outdoor sweep in school history, the UTSA men's track & field team added to its collection of hardware, as sophomore sprinter Teddy Williams and head coach Aaron Fox were named Outstanding Track Performer and Coach of the Year, respectively, the league office announced on Monday.
Williams picked up a trifecta of gold medals at this year's meet, as he easily won the 100 and 200 meters in addition to running the second leg of the Roadrunners' first-place 400-meter relay squad. The Tyler native helped the sprint relay clock a 40.21 in winning the second title in school history and first since 2002. He then went on to lead 1-2-3 finishes by UTSA athletes in both short sprints, winning the 100 in a school-record 10.16 and the deuce in a program-best 20.67. Both marks were NCAA Regional qualifiers and rank fourth and ninth, respectively, on the national leaderboard as of Monday. It was the third 100 meters title in UTSA history and first in the 200.
Fox collected his first outdoor honor after leading his squad to a UTSA-record 138.5 points and the first sweep in the league since 2004. The sixth-year head coach now has won four SLC coaching awards in the last three seasons, as he has claimed the last three indoor trophies. He is the first coach to sweep the awards since Galina Bukharina did so for Texas State four years ago. Behind a program-record-tying five individual/relay titles ? Williams (100m/200m), junior Tommy Wolfe (decathlon), senior Will Vese (110m hurdles) and the quartet of senior Cedric Harris, Williams, senior Steven Brown and freshman Kevin Hunt (400m relay) - the Roadrunners outdistanced Southeastern Louisiana, which scored 129 points. Fox now has mentored 14 of the program's 41 all-time league champions. The victory vaulted the team into the United States Cross Country andTrack & Field Coaches Association Top 25 poll last week, which is the first national ranking of any program in UTSA Athletics history.
UTSA is back in action on May 30-31 when it travels to Lincoln, Neb., for the NCAA Midwest Regional. Eleven Roadrunners are scheduled to compete in a total of eight events [sophomore Marcus Bibles (high jump), Brown (100m/200m/400m relay/long jump), junior Carvey Evans (high jump), Harris (100m/200m/400m relay), Hunt (400m relay), senior Luke Johnson (shot put), freshman P.J. McGowen (high jump), sophomore Alton St. Rose (triple jump), Vese (110m hurdles), sophomore Johnathan Whittaker (high jump), Williams (100m/200m/400m relay)].