2018-19 Michigan Men's Track and Field Awards and Honors
4/10/2019 3:05:00 PM | Men's Track & Field
• Program-Record 11 Men Earn USTFCCCA All-Academic Honors (7/23/19)
• Wolverine Decathlete Lint Voted Big Ten Field Athlete of the Year (6/12/19)
Jack Lint (April 10)
Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week -- For the first time in his Michigan career, multi-event athlete Jack Lint has been named the Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week. Competing in his first decathlon for Michigan since transferring from Virginia last summer following the completion of his undergraduate degree, Lint won the Arizona Jim Click Shootout decathlon with a career-best score of 7,596 points. The score ranks him No. 1 in the Big Ten, No. 4 in the NCAA and No. 7 in the world for the 2019 outdoor season. Along the way he posted three career-best performances in the 10 different events that comprise the decathlon, including a 56.79m (186 feet, 4 inches) javelin throw in the penultimate event that helped him clinch the victory. Including the indoor season, Lint's Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week award is the fourth by a Michigan man. » Big Ten Release
Joe Ellis (Feb. 13)
Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week -- Senior weight thrower Joe Ellis was named Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week for the second time this year and fifth time in his indoor career. Already the conference leader in the event entering this past weekend's Vanderbilt Music City Challenge (Feb. 8-9), Ellis surpassed his season's best mark three different times en route to a final mark of 23.56m (77 feet, 3.5 inches) to finish runner-up to professional Grant Cartwright, who is a volunteer assistant for the Wolverines. The performance moved him up to No. 2 in the national rankings, and extended his Big Ten lead over Penn State's Morgan Shigo to nearly four feet. Four of Ellis' five measured throws on the day were farther than Shigo's seasonal best, and all five ranked among the nation's 10 best throws for the week of Feb. 4-10. » Big Ten ReleaseJoe Ellis (Jan. 23)
Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week -- Senior Joe Ellis was arguably the most dominant weight thrower in the nation this past weekend, earning him Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week honors for the first time this season. Ellis extended his standing as the conference leader in the event, going a season's best and Simmons-Harvey Invitational-record 22.74m (74-7.25) to defeat conference No. 2 Morgan Shigo of Penn State by nearly seven feet. Ellis had five throws on the day better than Shigo's season-best mark, including four that measured farther than 22 meters. At No. 3 nationally, Ellis is one of just five in the country to have broken 22 meters this season. He was the only man in the country this weekend to log multiple 22-meter-plus throws, registering four of the six best marks in the country for the week of Jan. 14-20, per the USTFCCCA. This marks the fifth time Ellis has earned this award. » Big Ten Release
Andrew Liskowitz (Jan. 16)
Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week -- After just one meet in 2019, junior thrower Andrew Liskowitz is already a newly minted school record-holder. Already the outdoor standard-bearer for Michigan in the shot put, Liskowitz added his name to the indoor shot put with a 19.64m (64 feet, 5.25 inches) throw to win the Wolverine Invitational on Saturday (Jan. 12). The mark leads all Big Ten throwers so far in 2019, and ranks him fourth nationally in the event. He also had a career-best day in the weight throw, going 18.38m (60-3.75) for seventh in that event and earning the No. 9 spot on the all-time Michigan list. This is his second Big Ten Athlete of the Week award, with his first coming after his outdoor school-record throw in 2018. » Big Ten Release
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