Ten Alabama Track & Field Student-Athletes Earn Outdoor All-SEC Honors
5/29/2018 2:41:00 PM | Track & Field, Cross Country
Crimson Tide also lands four on Freshman All-SEC team
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Ten Alabama track & field student-athletes earned All-SEC honors for their performances at the 2018 Southeastern Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships, the league office announced Tuesday. Four Tide student-athletes were named to the Freshman All-SEC team.
The SEC recognizes all event champions from the SEC Outdoor Track & Field Championships as first team all-conference. Second- and third-place finishers are designated as second team all-conference. The top freshman finisher in each event at the conference meet earns a spot on the Freshman All-SEC team.
Three of the Crimson Tide's all-conference recipients were double honorees – junior Vincent Kiprop (first team – men's 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters), senior Alfred Chelanga (second team – men's 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters) and freshman Tamara Clark (second team – women's 100 meters and 200 meters).
Junior Shelby McEwen also earned First Team All-SEC for his victory in the men's high jump. Other second-team recipients for the men are junior Kord Ferguson (discus), junior Daniel Haugh (hammer throw), junior Gilbert Kigen (10,000 meters) and junior Keitavious Walter (200 meters).
Joining Clark as a second-team women's selection are junior Portious Warren (shot put) and freshman McKenzie Yanek (10,000 meters).
Alabama's Freshman All-SEC honorees include Clark (women's 100 meters), Yanek (women's 10,000 meters), Jaimie Robinson (women's triple jump) and Christian Edwards (men's triple jump).
Alabama will send 14 individuals (nine men, five women) and the women's 4x100- and 4x400-meter relays to the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, June 6-9, at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
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