Awards and Honors: Dodd Named the Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week

Awards and Honors: Dodd Named the Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week

Tom Dodd (May 11)

Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week – In his final tune-up race ahead of this weekend’s Big Ten Championships at Minnesota, Tom Dodd ran the fastest 800 meters of his career in 1: 48.18 to win the Len Paddock Open on Saturday (May 7), earning him the Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week honors for the first time in his career. He pulled away from a Talented field that included an All-American teammate Nick Foster and professional Hobbs Kessler, and ran all the way to the No. 5 spot on the 2022 Big Ten outdoor list. He also moved to No. 7 in school history, to go along with his status at No. 3 in the 1,500 meters. » Big Ten Release

Joshua Zeller (March 30)

Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week – In its 2022 outdoor debut in the 110-meter hurdles, Joshua Zeller ran the fastest wind-legal time in the world at 13.42 (+ 1.6m / s) to win the Miami Hurricane Collegiate Invitational and earn the Big Ten Track Athlete of the week honors. His time Ranks just outside the all-time Collegiate top-25 and is No. 12 in British history. Zeller leads the Big Ten by about four-tenths of a second. The performance is the fastest time in school history by a full tenth of a second, surpassing a wind-aided 13.52 by Thomas Witcher in 1985. » Big Ten Release

Miles Brown, Cassidy Henshaw (Jan. 19)

Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week – It took just two weeks for a freshman distance runner Miles Brown to both break his first school record and earn his first Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week award. Brown won the Simmons-Harvey Invitational 600 meters in 1: 16.98 on Saturday (Jan. 15), breaking a 21-year-old school record and becoming the best in the Big Ten in 2022 and one of the fastest freshmen in Collegiate history. Only six other freshmen all-time in the NCAA have ever run faster. Brown doubled back later in the meet to run a leg of the 4×400 relay that ended up winning by .01 seconds in 3: 11.29.

Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week – In his first high jump competition of the year at the Simmons-Harvey Invitational on Saturday (Jan. 15), senior Cassidy Henshaw became the 10th man in school history to clear seven feet in the indoor high jump. Down to his third-and-final attempt at 2.17m (7 feet, 1.5 inches), Henshaw sailed over the bar cleanly and secured not only his spot in school history, but also a spot atop the Big Ten Leaderboard and the No. 6 rank in the NCAA this winter. He also finished third in the long jump. This is his first career Big Ten Athlete of the Week award. » Big Ten Release