RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced the league's second weekly honors for the 2019 women's outdoor track & field season. Harding's Anne-Noelle Clerima claimed the Track Athlete award and Southern Arkansas' Courtney Williams earned the Field Athlete accolade.
GAC WOMEN'S TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK – Anne-Noelle Clerima, Harding, Fr., Paris, France
Clerima ran the fastest 400-meter dash time in the GAC in winning at the Harding Invitational in 55.69 seconds. She became the first GAC track athlete to record an NCAA provisional time. Her time ranks as the sixth fastest in Division II. Additionally, she took second in the 200 and ran the anchor leg on the 400-meter relay team that broke a 22-year-old school record.
GAC WOMEN'S FIELD ATHLETE OF THE WEEK – Courtney Williams, Southern Arkansas, So., Crossett, Arkansas
Williams repeated as the GAC Women's Field Athlete of the Week after she broke the school record in the high jump at the second-straight event. She cleared 1.70 meters, the fourth-best height in the country, to earn an NCAA Provisional mark. She joins Harding's Liz Fouts, in the discus, as the only GAC women's field athletes to have posted provisional marks.
OTHERS NOMINATED
Anna Mora, Jr., East Central (Won the 5,000 by 30 seconds at the Bobby Lane Invitational); Chloe Riddley, So., Southern Arkansas (Placed fourth in the 200 and ran on both relay teams)
Cara Mason, So., Harding (Set school records in both the hammer and the shot put)
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