2015 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field All-Americans Announced

NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced the 2015 NCAA Division I All-Americans for outdoor track & field on Monday.

The awards were based on the results of the NCAA championships in Eugene, Oregon.

In the sprinting events, the eight finalists were named First-Team All-American; in the distances and field, the top eight finishers were named First-Team.

In all events, finishers 9-16 were named Second-Team All-American, and the rest of the competitors were named Honorable Mention. Those who receive Honorable Mention should not be referred to as All-American.

Schools must be USTFCCCA members for their student-athletes to receive All-America honors.

The Oregon men’s and women’s teams swept the team titles, but two SEC schools had the most All-Americans for each gender. Texas A&M led all women’s teams with 15 First-Teamers, and Florida’s 16 First-Team All-Americans was the most among men’s teams.

Texas A&M finished third in the women’s meet with 47 points, while Florida’s men scored 56 points to capture a runner-up finish behind Oregon.

For Pat Henry’s Aggie women, Kamaria Brown and Aaliyah Brown (no relation) were both triple All-Americans. Both women ran on A&M’s seventh place 4×4; Aaliyah was fifth in the 100 and sixth in the 200 while Kamaria was third in the 200 and ran a leg on their runner-up 4×1.

Mike Holloway’s Gator men were led by long and triple jumps champion Marquis Dendy—who graduates with seven NCAA titles—and triple All-American Dedric Dukes. The latter was the runner-up in an epically fast 200 meters and anchored Florida’s sixth-place 4×1.

Oregon won the third most women’s honors with thirteen and the fifth most men’s honors with eleven. The Duck women were anchored by Jenna Prandini, who won the 100 and was a runner-up in the long jump and 200. Though Oregon’s 4×100 was disqualified, they made the final and thus Prandini is one of two quadruple All-American women in 2015, alongside Texas’ Morolake Akinosun.

Two Oregon men were double All-Americans. Sophomore Edward Cheserek and senior Eric Jenkins went 1-2 in both the 5000 and 10,000. That duo finished 1-2 in some order at the NCAA championships in cross country, the indoor 3k, and the outdoor 5k and 10k this school year.

On the women’s side, Southern California was second in All-American honors with fourteen. Arkansas had the second most men’s honors with fourteen, and Texas A&M and LSU also surpassed Oregon with thirteen each.

The SEC had more First-Team All-Americans than the next two conferences combined in both the men’s and women’s championships. In the men’s meet, the SEC had 77 First-Teamers, ahead of the Pac-12’s 30 and the Big Ten’s 26.

Seventy-eight women from the SEC made the First-Team, as did 35 women from the Pac-12 and twenty-seven from the Big 12.

Prandini was one of two women to earn four honors on Saturday. Morolake Akinosun of Texas made the finals in the 100, 200, 4×100, and 4×400, highlighted by a runner-up finish (by a hundredth of a second) behind Prandini in the 100.

Texas A&M’s Kamaria and Aaliyah Brown, Texas’s Kendall Baisden, and Florida’s Kyra Jefferson all had three First-Team finishes.

Arkansas’s Jarrion Lawson was the only man to be named a four-time All-American. He took second in the long jump, third in the 100, and ran legs on the Razorbacks’ winning 4×100 and sixth-place 4×400 relays.

His teammate Omar McLeod was a three-time First-Teamer, along with sprinters DJ Zahn of Illinois, Andre De Grasse of USC, Dedric Dukes of Florida, and Vernon Norwood of LSU.

The full list of USTFCCCA All-America awards is below, separated by sex and split into First-Team, Second-Team, and Honorable Mention.