The Bowerman: It’s All About Parity
Parity is a calling card of The Bowerman.
Since 2009 when collegiate track & field’s highest honor made its debut, athletes from 15 different programs have captured the iconic 35-pound award (And if you want to only focus on the men’s award, nine different programs have won it in the past 10 years).
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The past three years have been especially varied as five new programs were added to the list.
Courtney Okolo and Jarrion Lawson started the trend in 2016 when Texas and Arkansas became the 11th and 12th different programs to win The Bowerman. Then Tennessee standout Christian Coleman pushed that number to 13 last year at the 2017 USTFCCCA Convention.
You’ll have to go all the way back to yesterday to find out when the 14th and 15th programs had winners grace the stage. That’s right: Keturah Orji made Georgia the 14th program (sixth from the SEC), while Michael Norman etched Southern California on the list at No. 15.
Here is a chart of all of the winning programs in the history of The Bowerman.
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| Program | Conference | Number | Athletes |
| Oregon | Pac-12 | 5 | Galen Rupp, 2009 Ashton Eaton, 2010 Laura Roesler, 2014 Jenna Prandini, 2015 Raevyn Rogers, 2017 |
| Texas A&M | Big 12/SEC | 2 | Jessica Beard, 2011 Deon Lendore, 2014 |
| Colorado | Big 12 | 1 | Jenny Simpson, 2009 |
| Virginia Tech | ACC | 1 | Queen Harrison, 2010 |
| Florida State | ACC | 1 | Ngoni Makusha, 2011 |
| LSU | SEC | 1 | Kimberlyn Duncan, 2012 |
| Southern Utah | The Summit | 1 | Cam Levins, 2012 |
| Clemson | ACC | 1 | Brianna Rollins-McNeal, 2013 |
| Indiana | Big Ten | 1 | Derek Drouin, 2013 |
| Florida | SEC | 1 | Marquis Dendy, 2015 |
| Texas | Big 12 | 1 | Courtney Okolo, 2016 |
| Arkansas | SEC | 1 | Jarrion Lawson, 2016 |
| Tennessee | SEC | 1 | Christian Coleman, 2017 |
| Georgia | SEC | 1 | Keturah Orji, 2018 |
| Southern California | Pac-12 | 1 | Michael Norman, 2018 |