Four Maroons Claim UAA Athlete of the Week Status

CHICAGO – The College of Chicago swept all 4 of the College Athletic Affiliation’s Athlete of the Week awards in monitor & area on Monday.

The weekly award for ladies’s indoor monitor went to Evelyn Battleson-Gunkel. The Maroon sophomore put up a brand new personal-best to win the one mile on the season-opening Phoenix Invitational on Saturday. Battleson-Gunkel’s transformed time of 5:02.73 presently ranks because the third-best in all of NCAA Division III.

Molly Laumakis claimed the UAA honor in ladies’s indoor area occasions. Within the first meet of her junior marketing campaign, Laumakis prevailed within the weight throw with a high heave of 16.19 meters and within the shot put with a throw of 12.89 meters. These marks rank tenth and thirteenth within the nation, respectively.

Simon Dixon‘s spectacular collegiate debut was rewarded with UAA Athlete of the Week in males’s indoor area occasions. The Maroon rookie tossed the fourth-best shot put in NCAA Division III, with a successful distance of 16.20 meters.

John List captured males’s indoor monitor accolades from the UAA. The sophomore triumphed within the one-mile run with a transformed time of 4:17.62. That point is available in at No. 9 nationally within the occasion.