ODAC Athletes of the Week | Indoor Track & Field

ODAC Athletes of the Week | Indoor Track & Field

FOREST, Va. --- It is rare that we see ODAC records fall following the first weekend of indoor track & field competition, but that's exactly what ODAC fans were treated to in week 14 with not one but two standards featuring new names. Shenandoah throwers Kiara Felston and Tucker Kindig each etched their names next to conference weight throw marks. Fellow SU sprinter Miles Moore showed his speed over two events with one new SU record, and Lynchburg hurdler and sprinter Aniya Seward snapped her own school benchmark in one of her two events competed.

Below are entries for each of the winners from today's release. The schedule below will be used for reporting ODAC Athletes of the Week:

  • Mondays: basketball, swimming, wrestling
  • Tuesdays: indoor track & field

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MEN'S INDOOR FIELD ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Tucker Kindig | Shenandoah | Gr. | Throws
Kindig, a graduate student from Spotsylvania, Va., crushed the ODAC and Shenandoah school records in the weight throw over the weekend at the VMI Team Challenge in Lexington, Va. Kindig won the event with an eye-opening heave of 19.27 meters (63-2.75), a full four meters (13-1.50) further than second place finisher Andrew Granger from VMI. Kindig's mark is 1.36 meters (4-5.50) further than the throw of Michael Lotts from Bridgewater (17.91m - 58-9.25) in 2020, the previous ODAC benchmark. His former school record was 15.96 meters from February 2021. Kindig's new throw is currently second in NCAA Division III and would have gone down as the fourth-best throw in the country in 2021-22.

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MEN'S INDOOR TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Miles Moore | Shenandoah | Jr. | Sprints
Moore, a junior from Richmond, Va., showed off his speed in a pair of sprints at the VMI Team Challenge in Lexington, Va. Moore took to the blocks three times at VMI with two heats in the 60-meter dash and the finals of the 200-meter sprint. He opened with a time of 7.04 seconds to win his heat in the preliminaries of the 60-dash. In the finals, he stopped the watches fourth overall at 6.97 seconds, which stands as the second-fastest time in the ODAC and 17th in Division III. In the 200-dash, Moore went record hunting as he snapped his own Shenandoah standard by placing third overall and tops among D-III competitors at 21.96 seconds. He previously set the Hornets benchmark at 22.10 seconds in January 2020. Moores new 200-dash time ranks third in the country.

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WOMEN'S INDOOR FIELD ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Kiara Felston | Shenandoah | Sr. | Throws
Felston, a senior from Dover, Pa., snapped the ODAC and Shenandoah school records in the weight throw over the weekend at the VMI Team Challenge in Lexington, Va. Felston competed in both the shot put and the weight throw, finishing eighth overall in the shot at 10.67 meters (35-0.25), the second-furthest throw in the ODAC this weekend. Felston then posted her new school and conference benchmark in the weight throw with a third-place heave of 16.74 meters (54-11.25). That breaks the former ODAC record set by Lynchburg's Kim Alfaro in 2015 at 16.18 meters (53-1.00). The previous Shenandoah record belonged to Danyelle McGrady, who posted a mark of 16.02 meters in February 2017. Felston's new throw is ranked fifth in Division III.

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WOMEN'S INDOOR TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Aniya Seward | Lynchburg | Jr. | Hurdles/Sprints
Aniya Seward, a junior from Ebony, Va., went record hunting in two events and snapped one of her own Lynchburg standards as part of a strong day at the VMI Team Challenge in Lexington, Va. Seward finished fourth overall in the 60-meter hurdles at 8.77 seconds, 0.02 seconds faster that the Hornets' benchmark she set last season at the SU Final Qualifier. Her new mark currently sits third in NCAA Division III. Seward also improved her hold on second all-time at Lynchburg in the 200-meter dash by placing ninth overall at 26.22 seconds. She ranks second in the ODAC and 22nd in the country. She trails only Jessica Cammarata's time from 2019 of 26.17 seconds in the Lynchburg record book.

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