Riley Nicholson and JoAnn Smiling of North Greenville Earn Women’s Indoor Track and Field Weekly Honors
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Riley Nicholson and JoAnn Smiling of North Greenville were selected as the Conference Carolinas weekly award winners for women’s indoor track and field for the week ending March 12.
Nicholson was selected as the Track Athlete of the Week, while Smiling earned Field Athlete of the Week accolades.
A freshman from Anderson, South Carolina, Nicholson opened the outdoor season for the Crusaders with a pair of personal bests and a school record at the Myrtle Beach Collegiate Challenge. She finished 12th in the 1,500m with a school record time of 4:57.44 and placed third in the 5,000m with a time of 19:19.62. Both marks are tops in the conference for this season and rank second and seventh in the Southeast Region, respectively.
A junior from Columbia, South Carolina, Smiling posted a pair of top-two marks in the conference and region this season in the 100m and the long jump. In the long jump she finished second with a mark of 5.26m (17-3.25) and finished fifth in the 60m with a time of 12.40. She also ran on the 4x100m and 4x200m relay teams which won their events in 48.90 and 1:41.56, respectively.
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2023 Conference Carolinas Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Weekly Awards
Week 1 (March 7, 2023)
Track Athlete of the Week: Chianel Asoburuenwu, Mount Olive
Field Athlete of the Week: Mary Brigid Keck, Mount Olive
Week 2 (March 14, 2023)
Track Athlete of the Week: Riley Nicholson, North Greenville
Field Athlete of the Week: JoAnn Smiling, North Greenville