Liberty University’s men’s and women’s squads swept the team titles at the 2022 ASUN Indoor Track & Field Championships, which concluded Saturday at the Brant Tolsma Indoor Track at the Liberty Indoor Track Complex, but the results came in.
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Chelsea Igberaese (left) and Kyle Mitchell (right)
For the third consecutive week, Liberty s Chelsea Igberaese has been honored as ASUN Conference Women s Indoor Field Athlete of the Week. Meanwhile, fellow thrower Kyle Mitchell was named ASUN Men s Indoor Field Athlete of the Week, the fifth ASUN weekly honor of his career.
A redshirt junior from Dacula, Ga., Igberaese was victorious in the women s weight throw at the Virginia Tech Challenge on Friday. Her winning mark of 65-1.5 outdistanced the runner-up by more than seven and a half feet as Igberaese picked up her third straight weight throw victory. She had four throws measured at more than 64 feet on the day.
(L-R): Anna Hostetler, Chelsea Igberaese, Adelyn Ackley & Anthony Bryan
Four Liberty Flames earned ASUN Conference indoor track & field weekly honors on Wednesday. These include two repeat winners from last week (Chelsea Igberaese – Women s Field and Anthony Bryan – Men s Freshman) and two women s distance runners who made successful track season debuts at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational (Anna Hostetler – Women s Track and Adelyn Ackley – Women s Freshman).
A redshirt junior from Dacula, Ga., Igberaese claimed her second ASUN Women s Field Athlete of the Week honor this season and the third of her career. Igberaese won the women s weight throw at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational with a personal-best and meet-record mark of 65-6.75. She won the event by more than five feet and moved up to No. 34 on this year s NCAA Division I national list.