DALLAS?– With less than a month before the league indoor track and field championships, Conference USA has recognized WKU, Middle Tennessee, Rice and North Texas student athletes for the weekly league honors.?Lyn’Nikka Vance (MTSU) was named the women’s track athlete, while WKU senior high jumper Katie Isenbarger earned the field honor this week. On the men’s side, North Texas’ Karlington Anunagba, a 60 meter specialist, was recognized while Rice thrower Noah Hicks picked up the field award. All C-USA weekly awards are presented by Surf and Turf Golf.
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C-USA Female Track Athlete of the Week – Lyn’Nikka Vance, Middle Tennessee, Jr., Monee, Ill.
Vance competed in three events at the PNC Lenny Lyles Invitational hosted by Louisville on Saturday. In the women’s 60m dash, Vance set a facility record and a new personal best of 7.47 seconds that led to a first-place finish. Her new time improves her lead for the number one mark in Conference USA. Vance took fourth place in the women’s long jump with a length of 5.90m. Vance also took sixth in the women’s 200m with a time of 24.61 seconds, which would be the third best mark in Conference USA behind her 24.44 time from two weeks ago.
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C-USA Female Field Athlete of the Week – Katie Isenbarger, WKU, Sr., Zionsville, Ind.
After a two-year hiatus from jumping due to the stoppage of spring sports in 2020 and a spring 2021 volleyball season, WKU's two-sport student-athlete Isenbarger broke the WKU school record for female indoor high jump, that she owned, in her first competition of the season at the PNC Lenny Lyles Invitational. She jumped 5' 11.5" to win the competition by an inch and claim the top mark in Conference USA. She broke her own previous indoor record of 5' 10.75" which had stood since 2019, and tied her overall personal best of 5' 11.5", which she jumped as the school's outdoor record holder in 2019.
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C-USA Male Track Athlete of the Week – Karlington Anunagba, North Texas, Jr., Lagos, Nigeria
Anunagba clocked a time of 6.69 in round one of the men's 60 meters at the Texas Tech Open & Multis to tie Keyth Talley's North Texas school record set in 2010. Anunagba earned a spot in the semifinals, where he was one of three that recorded a time of 6.73 looking for the eighth and final spot in the finals. He fell just short in the photo finish (6.727 to 6.729). His time is second in C-USA this season, just one tenth of a second behind Karon Dean’s 6.68 (UTEP).
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C-USA Male Field Athlete of the Week – Noah Hicks, Rice, Jr., San Marcos, Texas
Junior thrower Hicks won his second weight throw competition of the season with a C-USA leading and winning mark of 20.37m (66’10”) last Friday afternoon on day one of the UH G5 & Super 22 Invitational. His mark leads all C-USA throwers by over five feet and is ranked in the top 40 nationally.
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2022 C-USA Female Track Athletes of the Week
J18 Savannah Heckman, WKU
J25 Maya Singletary, Charlotte
F1 Lyn’Nikka Vance, Middle Tennessee
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2022 C-USA Female Field Athletes of the Week
J18 Ingeborg Gruenwald, UTSA
J25 Ingeborg Gruenwald, UTSA
F1 Katie Isenbarger, WKU
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2022 C-USA Male Track Athletes of the Week
J18 Bashiru Abdullahi, UTSA
J25 Jordani Woodley, UTEP
F1 Karlington Anunagba, North Texas
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2022 C-USA Male Field Athletes of the Week
J18 Shyhiem Scotland, Charlotte
J25 Benjamin Onyekwelu, Middle Tennessee
F1 Noah Hicks, Rice