Track and field earns 10 All-American honors at outdoor nationals
New Orleans, La. – Ten members of the Mesa track and field teams won All-America honors from the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for their performances at the recent NJCAA Division I National Championships.
Both teams were honored five times.
For the men the honorees were: Antwan Ross-Jones, 4th place high jump; Marcus Naisant, 5th place javelin; Eric Cochran, 8th place pole vault and Nikaeus Hale-Mercer who earned two awards, 5th place shot put, 6th place discus.
On the women's side, Miranda Worthen was 6th in the pole vault and the 4x800 meter relay team of Madeline Ambrosio, Kara Dale, Alexandra Louis and Quinn Johnson placed seventh.
Despite many missing records from the early days, MCC has notched at least 559 All-Americans in track and field and produced a minimum of 89 individual national champions.
T-Bird track and field records can be found in the Mesa Athletic Record Book, linked here.