IRVING, Texas – Coming off a very successful week at the Lumberjack Team Challenge in Flagstaff, Arizona, the UTSA track and field teams celebrated 15 medals with six gold-medal performances and a pair of new records. The Roadrunners have more reason to celebrate, as officials from the American Athletic Conference announced on Tuesday that Ida Breigan and Shadae Findley have earned both weekly conference Athlete of the Week awards.
Winner of the AAC Field Athlete of the Week, Frederikstad, Norway sophomore Breigan picked up right where she left off last season in the long jump, shooting to the top of the AAC standings and ranking fifth nationally after producing a gold-medal 6.50m (21-4) measurement on her fifth jump in Arizona. This is Breigan’s first award of the season and her third career AAC Indoor weekly award.
Making her UTSA debut as the AAC Track Athlete of the Week, Evergreen, Jamaica redshirt senior Findley clocked a 53.98 in the 400-meter, edging .30 seconds ahead of Paige Patterson’s eight-year-old school record. Quickly taking her spot at the top of UTSA’s program leaderboard, Findley also rocketed to the top of the AAC standings in the quarter mile and ranks 21st nationally in the latest rankings.
After opening the Indoor season in the high desert, the Roadrunners return to action this weekend much closer to home, traveling to College Station, Texas for Texas A&M’s Ted Nelson Invitational, Jan. 24-25 at the R.A. "Murray" Fasken '38 Indoor facility.
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