BW's Kevin Johnson and Mount Union's Sean Donnelly Earn USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Year Honors

BW's Kevin Johnson and Mount Union's Sean Donnelly Earn USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Year Honors

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BW's Kevin Johnson and Mount Union's Sean Donnelly Earn USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Year Honors

 

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Baldwin Wallace senior Kevin Johnson (Maple Hts.) and Mount Union junior Sean Donnelly (Willoughby/South) have been named National Athletes of the Year by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

Johnson was chosen track athlete of the year after taking home titles both at 100 and 200 meters in career-best fashion at the NCAA Div. III Outdoor Track Championship.

He won the 100 meters crown in career-best of 10.50. He also went sub-21 in the 200 meters to claim the national title in the event in a career-best 20.98.

Earlier in the season he claimed titles in both of those events at the OAC Championships, along with a 4×100 relay crown.

Donnelly has been voted field athlete of the year after becaming just the second man in Division III history to win both the shot put and hammer throw national titles at the same championship meet. He also added a seventh-place finish in the discus after entering as the final man in the field.

His weekend started with a hammer throw title with a massive third-attempt heave of 216-7 (66.01m) that moved him past runner-up Tyler Williams of Widener into the No. 3 spot on the all-time Division III list. He defeated Williams by nearly three full feet, and was just over a foot shy of the meet record.

Though he only managed two attempts that weren’t fouls in the shot put, but both were good enough to take the title, including a winning mark of 58-6½ (17.84m) on his fifth attempt that was the best in the field by more than two feet.