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Shorter trio named NAIA National T&F Athletes of the Week
Story courtesy Chad Waller, NAIA SID
KANSAS CITY -- Shorter University's Paul Chelimo has been named the NAIA Men's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week, Tamala Daley has earned NAIA Women's Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week and Ashlie Stewartson has been tabbed the NAIA Women's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week as announced by the organization on Wednesday evening.
The trio earned the national recognition for their performances during the week of April 25 - May 1 at the Mid-South Conference Championships in Rio Grande, Ohio at the University of Rio Grande.
It is the second national runner of the week award of the outdoor season for Chelimo, a freshman from Iten, Kenya, who also captured NAIA National Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week honors on April 7.
At the Mid-South Conference Championships on April 30, Chelimo ran to first-place finishes in the 1,500-meters, 10,000-meters and the 4x800-meter relay.
The MSC Track Athlete of the Week won the 15-man 1,500 meters with a time of 3:53.17 and was the medalist in the 10,000 run with a clocking of 30:55.80. He ran the second leg in his only relay appearance to help the team win with a time of 7:54.66.
He was a part of Shorter's fourth straight conference title.
Shorter's female duo of Daley and Stewartson garnered their first NAIA National Outdoor honors of the season.
Daley, a sophomore from Stone Mountain, Ga., won the long and triple jumps at the Mid-South Conference Championships on April 30 -- the two wins earned Daley All-Conference honors.
In the long jump, she posted a distance of 19 feet, 9.75 inches
to win by a one foot margin over teammate and second place finisher
Stewartson. Daley won the triple jump by more than four feet with a
mark of 39 feet, 6.5 inches.
Stewartson, a junior from Newnan, Ga., earned four wins at the MSC
Championships.
She captured the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes and helped the 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams to first place finishes. For her efforts at the event, she was named co-MSC Women's Track & Field Athlete of the Year along with Daley.
Stewartson ran the 200 in 24.74 seconds and the 400 in 56.83 to
collect All-Conference honors. She was the second leg in the 4x100
as the team produced a time of 47.17 and ran the anchor leg in the
4x400 with a time of 3:50.78.
Stewartson and Daley helped the Lady Hawks to their third straight
MSC Championship title.
