UTSA Heat Sheets / Schedule
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Devynne Charlton was voted the Big Ten Track Athlete of the Year for the indoor season, the conference office announced Thursday. Charlton was a first team All-American after finishing runner-up in the 60-meter hurdles at the NCAA Championships and was second team All-American in the 60-meter dash.
Charlton was voted the conference track athlete of the year Thursday by the head coaches in the Big Ten. She is Purdue's first Big Ten Track Athlete of the Year for the indoor season in program history and the first athlete of the year of any kind indoors since Dani Bunch was the Field Athlete of the Year in 2014.
Charlton, also named the conference's Track Athlete of the Championships last month, scored 28 points at the Big Ten Championships with a gold medal in the 60m hurdles, gold in the 60m dash and silver in the 200m dash. She broke the school record in the 60m hurdles at the NCAA Championships with a time of 7.93 seconds. That time is the fifth best in Big Ten history. She also broke the school record in the 60m dash with a time of 7.26 seconds. Charlton was a huge reason the women were ranked, and finished, 14th in the country. The women finished second at Big Tens and were the top ranked team in the Great Lakes Region.
Charlton is the first woman in the Big Ten to win the track athlete of the year and championship awards in the same year since 2015 when Michigan State's Leah O'Connor did so.
Charlton wrapped up her indoor career with the NCAA Championships last week. She still has two seasons of outdoor eligibility remaining, including this year.
Charlton and the Boilermakers are in San Antonio, Texas, for a spring break trip and will compete in the UTSA Invitational on Friday and Saturday.
The outdoor opener will begin Friday at 2 p.m. ET with the women's hammer throw. Micaela Hazlewood will compete for the first time this year after sitting out the indoor season. Alisha Bahler, Sarah Loesch and Jessica DelBovo are also in the hammer.
Samara Miller, Waseem Williams and Michael Weller will compete for the first time as Boilermakers. Both freshmen redshirted the indoor season. Miller is expected to compete in the 400m dash and 4x400m relay, while Williams will run the 100m and 200m dashes. Weller will throw the javelin.
The Boilermakers return several outdoor All-Americans from a year ago including Symone Black and Obokhare Ikpefan in the 400m hurdles, the men's and women's 4x100m and 4x400m relays, Savannah Carson in the 100m dash, Carmiesha Cox in the 200m dash, Janae' Moffitt in the high jump and Hazlewood and Chelsie Meeks in the discus. Caleb Fricke has an All-American honor in the discus during his time at Purdue, while Charlton was an All-American in the 100m hurdles in 2015.
Full heat sheets and a timing schedule is at the top of the page. Follow all the results from the weekend on Twitter @PurdueTrackXC.