WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – After the second weekend of the Indoor Track & Field season, Purdue took home two more Big Ten weekly honors. Zoe Sullivan earned her second Big Ten Women's Track Athlete of the Week honor and Chidozie Kalu earned Big Ten Men's Field Athlete of the Week.
Purdue now has four honors through the first two team meets after Sullivan and Cameron Miller swept the Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week honors on Dec. 18.
Sullivan took her second finals victory of the season with a personal-best 8.08 in the 60m hurdles at the Rod McCravy Memorial Invite. The time stands at the No. 2 mark in the NCAA and is 0.02 seconds behind the top time in the nation. Sullivan is the only Big Ten hurdler to go sub-8.30 so far this season.
She has achieved a personal best three separate times this season. She opened the season with an 8.18 at the Blue Demon Holiday Invite prelims and capped the meet with an 8.12 in the finals. Sullivan continues to hold the No. 2 spot in Purdue history only trailing Olympian Devynne Charlton's 7.93.
Kalu jumped 15.68m (51-05.50) in the triple jump to earn a runner-up finish at the Rod McCravy Memorial Invite. The mark placed Kalu eighth in Division I and ninth in program history after his Purdue debut.
The sophomore is a former outdoor All-American at Virginia Tech, where he also achieved his personal-best jump of 15.94m (52-03.75) in his collegiate debut last indoor season.
Purdue returns to action for a one-day meet at Michigan on Jan. 18.
Purdue now has four honors through the first two team meets after Sullivan and Cameron Miller swept the Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week honors on Dec. 18.
Sullivan took her second finals victory of the season with a personal-best 8.08 in the 60m hurdles at the Rod McCravy Memorial Invite. The time stands at the No. 2 mark in the NCAA and is 0.02 seconds behind the top time in the nation. Sullivan is the only Big Ten hurdler to go sub-8.30 so far this season.
She has achieved a personal best three separate times this season. She opened the season with an 8.18 at the Blue Demon Holiday Invite prelims and capped the meet with an 8.12 in the finals. Sullivan continues to hold the No. 2 spot in Purdue history only trailing Olympian Devynne Charlton's 7.93.
Kalu jumped 15.68m (51-05.50) in the triple jump to earn a runner-up finish at the Rod McCravy Memorial Invite. The mark placed Kalu eighth in Division I and ninth in program history after his Purdue debut.
The sophomore is a former outdoor All-American at Virginia Tech, where he also achieved his personal-best jump of 15.94m (52-03.75) in his collegiate debut last indoor season.
Purdue returns to action for a one-day meet at Michigan on Jan. 18.