DENVER – Louisiana Tech’s Antoinette Cobb and Hawai‘i’s Amber Kaufman were named the Verizon Wireless Western Athletic Conference Women’s Indoor Track and Field Athletes of the Week, respectively, for the week of January 11-17.
Cobb, a senior from Weyanoke, La. (Barton County CC), ran an NCAA Provisional Qualifying time of 8.39 seconds in the 60m hurdles at the Texas A&M Invitational to win her heat and advance to the finals. Cobb’s preliminary time was the third-fastest time of the prelims and is the fastest time of any WAC hurdler throughout the young season. Cobb came back in the finals and finished fourth overall. The only hurdlers to beat her were a group of three All-Big 12 and All-American athletes.
Kaufman, a senior from San Jose, Calif. (Branham HS), won the high jump competition at the University of Washington Indoor Preview with an NCAA Automatic Qualifying standard of 6-1.5 (1.87m). The height surpassed the NCAA Automatic Qualifying mark of 6-0.75 (1.85m) and secures her an opportunity to compete in the NCAA Indoor Championship for the second straight year.
Other track nominees included: Idaho’s Kelly Jacka, Nevada’s Gina Dechard, New Mexico State’s Samantha Thompson, and Utah State’s Ashlee Cannon.
Other field nominees included: Idaho’s Mykael Bothum, New Mexico State’s Randi Grimes, and Utah State’s Spela Hus.
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