The William & Mary men's track & field team was rewarded for a strong season in 2019 on Wednesday, sweeping all three Athlete of the Year awards from the Colonial Athletic Association. The awards were nominated and voted on by the league head coaches at the conclusion of the NCAA Championships.
Winning Track Athlete of the Year was sophomore
Miles Owens (Yorktown, Va.), who capped off his year by earning Honorable Mention All-America honors at the NCAA Championships. Owens was the first from W&M to race the 800m at the national meet in 20 years, and finished 23rd in the nation. He was also the CAA Champion in both the 800m and on the Tribe's 4x400m relay, and at the Colonial Relays became the first back-to-back winner in the 800m since 1990-91. Owens is second-straight Track Athlete of the Year winner from W&M, and the first 800m runner to win Athlete of the Year in the CAA since the Tribe's
Anders Christiansen '99 back in 1997.
Sophomore
KJ Cook (Buena Vista, Va.) also earned Honorable Mention All-America this year, and was named the Field Athlete of the Year. Cook finished 24th nationally in the discus, and was the first thrower in school history to qualify for the national finals in an event other than the javelin. He was the first athlete in CAA history to qualify for the NCAA Eastern preliminaries in three different events, and was named the Most Outstanding Field Athlete of the CAA Championships after winning conference titles in both the discus and the hammer, throwing personal-best in both events. Cook, who was the CAA Rookie of the Year last year, also earned All-East honors in the hammer, discus, and the shot put at the IC4A Championships. He's the fourth thrower from W&M to win Athlete of the Year honors in the last five years.
The Tribe also provided the CAA Rookie of the Year for the second year in a row, and the third time in the last five years, as redshirt-freshman
Evan Goodell (St. Louis, Mich.) was honored following a strong weekend at the CAA Championships. Goodell won both the 5,000m and the 10,000m at the conference meet, the latter event in his first-ever attempt at the distance. He was the only freshman to win multiple events at the CAA Championships this year, and was just the fourth man in conference history to complete the distance double, and the first since 2016. Goodell's award marks the eighth time that a W&M athlete has been named Rookie of the Year, breaking the conference record previously shared with George Mason.
2019 Colonial Athletic Association Men's Track & Field All-Conference Team
Track Athlete of the Year: Miles Owens, W&M
Field Athlete of the Year: KJ Cook, W&M
Rookie of the Year: Evan Goodell, W&M
Coach of the Year: Tramaine Shaw, NU
100m: Dametrius O'Connor, Northeastern; Naukym Morton, Northeastern; Anthony Roderick, Northeastern
200m: Dametrius O'Connor, Northeastern;
Theo Chambers, William & Mary; Anthony Roderick, Northeastern
400m: Phillips Magre, Northeastern;
Duncan Goodrich, William & Mary; Quinn Litherland, Northeastern
800m: Miles Owens, William & Mary; Connor Donovan, Northeastern;
Cole Clark, William & Mary
1,500m: Ryan McGorty, William & Mary; Cooper Leslie, William & Mary; Evan Jones, UNCW
5,000m: Evan Goodell, William & Mary; Christian Stafford, Northeastern; Carmeron Dickson, Northeastern
10,000m: Evan Goodell, William & Mary; Micah Pratt, William & Mary; Calvin Daughtry, UNCW
100m Hurdles: Maurice Holmes, UNCW; Earl Green, UNCW; David Adams, Northeastern
400m Hurdles: David Adams, Northeastern; Earl Green, UNCW; KeAndre Yeoman, UNCW
3,000m Steeplechase: Alexander Korczynski, Northeastern;
Matt Frame, William & Mary; Eric Clay, Northeastern
4x100m Relay: Northeastern (Naukym Morton, Anthony Roderick, Dametrius O'Connor, David Adams); UNCW (Da'Rod Crutchfield, KeAndre Yeoman, Zachary Ray, Kamarion Graham)
4x400m Relay: William & Mary (Duncan Goodrich, Theo Chambers, Skander Ballard, Miles Owens); Northeastern (Quinn Litherland, Phillips Magre, David Adams, Austin Lin); UNCW (Zachary Ray, Earl Green, KeAndre Yeoman, Ezekiel Shore)
High Jump: Maurice Holmes, UNCW; Phillips Magre, Northeastern;
Ryan Thomas, William & Mary
Pole Vault: Michael Fairbanks, William & Mary; Travis Kartz, Northeastern; Nathan Rodgers, UNCW
Long Jump: Maurice Holmes, UNCW; Da'Rod Crutchfield, UNCW; Owen Pelletier, UNCW
Triple Jump: Jordan Samuels, Northeastern; Maurice Holmes, UNCW; Ugo Anuonyemere, Northeastern
Shot Put: Preston Richardson, William & Mary; Connor Scott, William & Mary; Andrew Canistracci, Northeastern
Discus: KJ Cook, William & Mary; Preston Richardson, William & Mary; Tory Yearwood, William & Mary
Hammer Throw: KJ Cook, William & Mary; Preston Richardson, William & Mary; Troy Yearwood, William & Mary
Javelin: Spencer McKeough, Northeastern; Andrew Canistracci, Northeastern; Mark Puglia, Northeastern
Decathlon: Nathan Rodgers, UNCW; Kurt Robakiewicz, Northeastern; Mark Puglia, Northeastern
