Team Champs Saint Augustine’s Men & Lincoln (Mo.) Women Headline Division II Outdoor T&F All-America Honorees

NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced Tuesday the list of those Division II student-athletes who earned USTFCCCA All-America honors for the 2014 outdoor track & field season.

Student-athletes were honored for their performances at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships this past weekend in Allendale, Mich. Those who earned any portion of a team point at the championships earned the distinction, so long as their teams are a member of the USTFCCCA.

The full men’s list can be found here, and the full women’s list here.

Two-time defending national men’s champion Saint Augustine’s led the way with 22 total All-America awards, including six student-athletes who claimed multiple honors, to nearly double-up Ashland’s 12.

Representative of how close the race for the women’s team title was, champion Lincoln (Mo.) and third-place host Grand Valley State both accumulated 18 total All-America honors, followed by runner-up Johnson C. Smith and Southern Connecticut with 10 apiece.

Of the nine male athletes from around the nation who earned at least three awards each, four came from Saint Augustine’s: the nation’s lone four-time All-American in Burkheart Ellis, Jr., as well as three-time honorees Joshua Edmonds, Jermaine Jones and Taffawee Johnson.

Also among the three-time honorees were 100 and 200 meters champion Tim Price of Texas A&M-Kingsville, shot put champion Christopher Reed of Minnesota State, and 400 meters champ Jordan Edwards of Academy of Art.

Romone Hill of Lincoln (Mo.) and Elijha Owens of Ashland rounded out the three-time All-Americans.

Hill’s Lincoln (Mo.) squad and Price’s Kingsville crew both also recorded double-digit All-America honors with 11 and 10, respectively.

While the Lincoln (Mo.) women with three different individuals who earned three All-America awards each in Yanique Ellington, Janae Johnson and Tamara Keane topped the list of nine three-time honorees, it was the Johnson C. Smith duo of Danielle Williams and Samantha Elliot who headlined the multiple honorees.

The duo combined for four individual national titles with Williams claiming crowns at both 100 and 200  meters and finishing runner-up by just .006 in the 100-meter hurdles to Elliot, who also took the 400-meter hurdles title. Both received three All-America honors apiece.

Salcia Slack of New Mexico  Highlands also turned in a multiple national title weekend with wins in the heptathlon and the long jump, and a third-place showing in the triple jump.

Rounding out the three-time honorees were New  Haven’s Ada Udaya, Academy of Art’s Keanna Moody and Southern Connecticut’s Shataja Wattely.

The women of the MIAA led all leagues in total awards with 42 to the GLIAC’s 36, while the men’s conference list was topped by the CIAA with 37. That total edged out the Lone Star Conference with 33, the MIAA with 31 and the GLIAC with 29.

USTFCCCA All-America Honorees

Men

Women