CHARLOTTE, N.C.- The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced on Monday winners of USTFCCCA Region Athletes and Coaches of the Year honors for the 2010 Outdoor Track & Field season in Division II as voted by the division’s coaches and Queens’
Michael Crouch (Yucca Valley, Calif., Yucca Valley) and
Tanya Zeferjahn (Hesperia, Calif., Hesperia High School) have been selected as the Southeast Region’s Track Athletes of the Year.
Crouch, a junior from Yucca Valley, Calif., has clocked the second-fastest 5000-meter time in the nation this year with a mark of 13:53.37. Crouch defended his Conference Carolinas 10,000-meter title this spring and doubled to win the 1500 meter title as well as the league meet.
Zeferjahn, a graduate student from Hesperia, Calif., notched a 33:09.07 clocking in the 10,000 meters at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational on May 1 for the second-best performance ever by a Division II athlete. The mark is the fourth best among all collegians this season and the best in Division II. Zeferjahn is also entered in the 5000 for the NCAA meet as the first seed (16:03.51). The winner of the Conference Carolinas 10k, Zeferjahn lays claim to every school record from 800 to 10,000 meters.
This is the second year the two student-athletes have swept the outdoor track athlete of the year awards.
Both will represent Queens in the 2010 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship this week in Charlotte on the campus of Johnson C. Smith University.