Trinity and Dallas Honored with Track & Field Staff-Of-The-Year Honors

Trinity and Dallas Honored with Track & Field Staff-Of-The-Year Honors

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - In exclusive voting by the head coaches of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), the coaching staff at Trinity University was selected Men's Track & Field Staff-of-the-Year. The Women's Track & Field Staff-of-the-Year honor was shared by Trinity University and the University of Dallas.

The Trinity University men’s staff, led by first-year head coach Marcus Whitehead, was selected as SCAC Men’s Track and Field Staff-of-the-Year. Behind 10 individual titles and a team victory in both the 4x100 and 4x400 relays, Trinity’s men defeated second-place Southwestern University by 136.5 points – the largest margin of victory in SCAC championship meet history – to earn the program its first track and field title since 2009 and its eighth overall men’s title – the most by any school in the SCAC era.

The Trinity University women’s staff, also led by Marcus Whitehead, was named SCAC Women’s Track & Field Co-Staff-of-the-Year. The Tiger women placed first in all 18 individual events and also won both relays in accumulating a SCAC-record 368 points at the 2013 conference championship meet. The team’s margin of victory (277) also set a new conference meet record as Trinity won its first conference women's track title since 2007 and eighth overall.

The University of Dallas’ women’s staff, led by head coach Matt Buchhorn, also earned Co-Staff-of-the-Year honors. The Crusaders finished in second place at this year’s conference championship meet, equaling the school’s best-ever finish in any sport since joining the conference prior to the 2011-12 academic year. The UD women placed second in the 4x100 relay and recorded three individual All-SCAC performances en route to the team’s runner-up finish.

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