DENVER – Boise State’s Jeff Daw and Utah State’s Joe Canavan have been named the Verizon Wireless Western Athletic Conference Men’s Indoor Track and Field Athletes of the Week, respectively, for the week of February 8-14.
Daw, a freshman from Salt Lake City, Utah (Skyline HS), won the men’s 400-meter dash at the Boise State Team Invitational on Sunday with a career-best time of 48.38, improving his No. 2 mark in the WAC in the event. The freshman also moved up to sixth in the WAC standings in the 200-meter dash after a career-best mark of 21.99, and helped his 4x400 relay team to a season-best mark of 3:17.21 which is also No. 2 in the conference.
Canavan, a junior from Palm Desert, Calif. (Palm Desert HS), set two personal records in winning the shot put with a distance of 17.44m (57-02.75) and taking second in the weight throw with a toss of 18.55m (60-10.50) at the Boise State Team Invitational over the weekend. Canavan’s mark in the shot put ranks first in the WAC this season.
Other track nominees included: Idaho’s Princeton McCarty, Louisiana Tech’s Wade McGaha and Utah State’s Brian McKenna.
Other field nominees included: Boise State’s Trevor Kraychir, Idaho’s Jeremy Klas and Louisiana Tech’s Larry Jones.
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