Sutherland, Rajewsky Earn USTFCCCA Regional Awards
6/20/2025 2:49:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
NEW ORLEANS, La. -- Senior Savannah Sutherland and assistant coach Steven Rajewsky of the University of Michigan women's track and field team have earned United States Track and Cross Country Coaches Association Regional Awards, as announced Friday (June 20).
Sutherland was named Great Lakes Region Women's Track Athlete of the Year, while Rajewsky was named the Great Lakes Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year.
A vote of USTFCCCA member coaches determined award winners following the conclusion of the 2025 NCAA DI Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Performances from both the NCAA Championships and the regular season were considered.
Sutherland captured her second national title in the 400-meter hurdles and her third straight top-two finish at the NCAA Championships on June 14. She ran a personal-best 52.46 seconds to finish 2.20 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher, set five records -- the NCAA record, the NCAA Championship meet record, the Big Ten record, the Michigan program record and the Canadian national record -- and earned first team All-America honors.
The Borden, Saskatchewan, native is now just the second runner in NCAA history to break 53 seconds, with Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone setting the previous collegiate record of 52.75 in 2018. The time comes in at No. 9 in the world on the all-time performance list and is tied for the second-fastest time in the world this season.
Sutherland also ran the second leg of the 4x400-meter relay at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, running 50.71 for the fastest second leg and second-fastest split of the race. The relay squad finished 19th overall with a time of 3:33.75 to be named All-America honorable mention.
The senior capped an impressive career in her final season for the Maize and Blue, winning her third straight Big Ten title in the 400-meter hurdles before setting the NCAA East First Round meet record (54.39) for the second consecutive year. She also helped set the program record in the 4x400-meter relay twice this season and earned a third-place finish at the Big Ten Championships.
Rajewsky, in his 12th year as an assistant coach at Michigan, coached Sutherland to setting a collegiate record of 52.46 in winning the 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA DI Outdoor Championships. His sprint/hurdle group also twice lowered the program record in the 4×400m relay and finished third at the Big Ten Championships.
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