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UNO Sweeps Women’s Track & Field Awards
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Nebraska-Omaha teammates
Anja Puc and Nkeiruka Domike have been named MIAA Women's Track
& Field Student-Athletes of the Week for the week of Feb. 1-7
as selected by a conference SID panel. Puc is a second-time honoree
in 2010, and Domike is a first-time winner this season.
MIAA WOMEN'S TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Anja Puc, Jr., Nebraska-Omaha
Puc set the top time in the MIAA and the nation with a
run of 2:09.79 at the Fred Sevigne Husker Invitational, an
automatic-qualifying mark in her first time to run the 800 meters
this season. The junior from Medvode, Slovenia, placed fourth and
was the only Division II athlete in the field. Puc's time is
the best nationally by nearly two seconds and is the best mark in
the MIAA by more than six seconds.
MIAA WOMEN'S FIELD ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Nkeiruka Domike, Jr., Nebraska-Omaha
Domike produced the MIAA and national-best triple jump
and automatically qualified with a leap of 41 feet, six inches at
the Fred Sevigne Husker Invitational. The junior from Rivers-State,
Nigeria, was competing in the event for the first time ever
indoors. Domike's mark is one foot better than the second-best jump
in the country.
2009-10 MIAA
Women's Track & Field Student-Athletes of the Week
1/18 - Track: Anja Puc, Jr., UNO, Kimi Shank,
Sr., MSSU; Field: Katrina Biermann, Sr., TSU
1/25 - Track: Jenny Blair, Sr., SBU; Field: Katrina Biermann, Sr.,
TSU
2/1 - Track: Lindsay Lettow, So., UCM; Field: Kayla Muyskens, Jr.,
UCM
2/8 - Track: Anja Puc, Jr., UNO; Field: Nkeiruka Domike, Jr.,
UNO
