Jaylin Reeves and Mary Brigid Keck of Mount Olive Earn Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Weekly Honors
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Jaylin Reeves 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 26.
Reeves was selected as the Track Athlete of the Week, while Keck earned Field Athlete of the Week accolades for the second straight week and third time in four weeks.
A senior sprinter from Indianola, Mississippi, Reeves registered a pair of NCAA provisional standards on Saturday in the 100 and 200 meters. She set the top time in Conference Carolinas in the 100m with a mark of 11.83 in the preliminaries. In the 200m, Reeves claimed first place in the event after crossing the line in 24.17 seconds, which ranks second in the conference. She currently holds the third-fastest time in both events in the Southeast Region and is ranked eighth in NCAA Division II in the 200m and is 17th in the 100m.
A native of Newark, Ohio, Keck set a conference and school record in the hammer throw with a mark of 58.08m (190-7) to place second overall while hitting an NCAA standard. She eclipsed the previous league mark held by former teammate Candy Lockett, who set the record in 2022. Additionally, she improved her conference standard in the discus with a toss of 41.42m (135-11) to place third, while hitting the qualifying mark and placing second in the shot put with a distance of 12.40m (40-8.25). She leads the conference in all three events, is first in the Southeast Region and is fifth in division II in the hammer throw, is second in the region and 35th in the nation in the discus and ranks fourth regionally in the shot put.
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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
Week 4 (March 28, 2023)
Track Athlete of the Week: Jaylin Reeves, Mount Olive
Field Athlete of the Week: Mary Brigid Keck, Mount Olive