Michele Beugre of Southern Wesleyan and Mary Brigid Keck of Mount Olive Earn Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Weekly Honors
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Michele Beugre of Southern Wesleyan and Mary Brigid Keck of Mount Olive were selected as the Conference Carolinas weekly award winners for women’s indoor track and field for the week ending March 19.
Beugre was selected as the Track Athlete of the Week, while Keck earned Field Athlete of the Week accolades.
A graduate sprinter from Powder Springs, Georgia, Beugre won the 400m at the Trojan Opener with a time of 56.52 which leads Conference Carolinas and the Southeast Region this outdoor season and ranks No. 7 in NCAA Division II. She also ran on the 4x100m relay (Kyla Johnson, Cierra Wright, Mycherie Onwuzuruike) which won the event in 47.13 and the 4x400m relay (Makayla Wilson, Deborah Marlow, Onwuzuruike) which won in 3:52.57. Both relays are also tops in the league and the region.
A senior thrower from Newark, Ohio, Keck earned her second weekly honor of the outdoor campaign as she improved her NCAA provisional mark in the hammer throw while also reaching the conference qualifying mark in the discus. Keck placed fifth overall at the Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational with a distance of 54.48m (178-9) to finish behind four Division I throwers in a field of nearly 60 competitors in the hammer throw. Her mark ranks second in NCAA Division II and holds the top spot in the Southeast Region. Additionally, Keck recorded a sixth-place finish in Myrtle Beach in the discus with a toss of 37.81m (124-0), which ranks third in the league this year.
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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
Week 3 (March 21, 2023)
Track Athlete of the Week: Michele Beugre, Southern Wesleyan
Field Athlete of the Week: Mary Brigid Keck, Mount Olive