Micah Leonard Named USTFCCCA Mideast Region Outdoor Female Field Athlete of the Year
NEW ORLEANS, La. --- Senior jumper Micah Leonard of the Moravian College track & field team has been named the 2013 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division III Mideast Region Outdoor Female Field Athlete of the Year.
NEW ORLEANS, La. --- Senior jumper Micah Leonard of the Moravian College track & field team has been named the 2013 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division III Mideast Region Outdoor Female Field Athlete of the Year.
Leonard was recently honored as the Lehigh Valley Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Outstanding Field Athlete in track & field and was also Moravian's LVAIAW Outstanding Athlete for the school. A week later, Leonard was named Moravian's Outstanding Senior Female Athlete.
In late April, she helped Moravian win its sixth straight Landmark Conference Outdoor Championship, and she was named the Field Athlete of the Year. Leonard won the long jump with an ECAC qualifying mark of 5.69 meters (18 feet, eight inches), a career best that moved her to tenth place on the Track & Field Results Reporting System list that will have the top 22 individuals and top 16 relay teams at the end of the season in each event heading to the NCAA Division III National Championships at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. On the second day of the meet, Leonard won the triple jump for the fourth straight year with an ECAC qualifying, Moravian and Landmark Conference record distance of 12.14 meters (39 feet, ten inches), a distance that moved her to third on the TFRRS list. Leonard was also the runner-up in the high jump at 1.52 meters (four feet, 11 ¾ inches).
Leonard, who is competing at the ECAC Division III Championships at Springfield (Mass.) College this week in both the long jump and triple jump, increased her school record distance in the triple jump to 12.34 meters (40 feet, six inches), a distance that keeps her third on the TFRRS list, at the York College of Pennsylvania Twilight Meet on May 9th, and she was the runner-up in the triple jump at the ECAC Meet Thursday at 12.19 meters (40 feet).
During the indoor season, she earned All-America honors for the fifth time in her career as she placed fifth in the triple jump at the 2013 NCAA Division III Indoor National Championships hosted by North Central (Ill.) College. Leonard was also named the Landmark Conference Indoor Field Athlete of the year for the third straight season.
To view all of the USTFCCCA Regional Athletes of the Year, visit http://www.ustfccca.org/2013/05/featured/division-iii-outdoor-track-field-region-award-winners-announced.
