Arkansas State track & field sweeps SBC Indoor Athlete of the Week honors By Caleb Garner - Arkansas State Athletics | February 4, 2021 at 4:56 PM CST - Updated February 4 at 4:56 PM
For the second time in as many weeks, the Arkansas State track and field athletes earned a pair of Sun Belt Conference Athlete of the Week honors, as Lauren Beauchamp and Carter Shell were tabbed Women’s and Men’s Field Athletes of the Week on Thursday.
Beauchamp and Shell are the third and fourth athletes to earn conference weekly honors so far this season, as Jermie Walker (Men’s Track) and Camryn Newton-Smith (Women’s Field) garnered laurels in the first weekly awards of the season on Jan. 28. Beauchamp’s award is the second weekly honor of her career, doing so on Feb. 19, 2020. Thursday marks the second weekly honor for Shell, who earned Men’s Field Athlete of the Week as a freshman on April 11, 2018.
A-State Track & Fields wraps up Scarlet and Black Invitational Arkansas State Track & Field finishes Scarlet and Black Invitational (Source: KAIT) By Matthew Schwartz | January 31, 2021 at 8:18 PM CST - Updated January 31 at 8:18 PM
Press Release from Arkansas State Athletics
JONESBORO, Ark. (1/31/21) – In the penultimate meet before the 2021 Sun Belt Conference Indoor Championships, the Arkansas State track and field teams got a preview of what conference competition will be like in just under a month.
The reigning conference champions hosted five conference foes, in addition to Memphis, for the Scarlet and Black Invitational, where A-State’s athletes posted 19 personal-best marks as well as 28 season-best results. The Red Wolves notched nine victories (5 men, 4 women) and 38 top-five results.
Camryn Newton-Smith & Jermie Walker earn Sun Belt weekly honors By Caleb Garner - Arkansas State Athletics | January 28, 2021 at 2:00 PM CST - Updated January 28 at 2:00 PM
After a strong start to the 2020-21 indoor track and field season, Arkansas Stateâs Jermie Walker and Camryn Newton-Smith garnered Sun Belt Conference Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Week honors on Thursday.
Newton-Smith was named Womenâs Field Athlete of the Week, while Walker was tabbed Menâs Track Athlete of the Week in the leagueâs first weekly honors of the season.
The All-American pentathlete Newton-Smith earned her second career weekly honor after posting a strong first pentathlon of the year, totaling 4,068 points to win at the Samford Multis on Jan. 21. That mark currently ranks second in the NCAA and was three shy of matching her school-record mark of 4,071 set at the 2020 Sun Belt Indoor Championships. She claimed three of the five events at Samford, including the 60m h