Machaeda Linton was named the 2024 NAIA Indoor Track & Field National Women’s Field Athlete of the Year. Linton, who hails from Kingston, Jamaica, swept the horizonal jumps at the 2024 NAIA Indoor Track & Field Championships, setting a meet record in the long jump of 6.03m (19-9½) in the process. She entered the NAIA Championships as the national leader in both horizontal jumps and earned conference titles in both of those events as well.