DENVER - Utah Valley's Lexi Shaw and Grand Canyon's Kayla Finnegan have been named Western Athletic Conference Women's Track & Field Athletes of the Week, respectively, for April 2-8.
Shaw, a senior from Ladera Ranch, Calif., placed second out of 21 competitors in the 400 hurdles at the Utah/Weber State Spring Classic. Her time of 1:00.29 in a WAC season best and is ranked 37th in the west region and 69th in the nation.
Finnegan, a redshirt senior from Mooreland, Okla., won the long jump event at the Don Kirby Tailwind Invitational as she outjumped 13 competitors. She finished the meet with a mark of 6.11 meters.
Other track nominees: Grand Canyon's Sarah Root placed second in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.03… UT Rio Grande Valley's Idatonya Cheetham-West won both the 100-meter (11.76 seconds) and the 200-meter dashes (23.86 seconds) and placed second in the 4x100 relay with a time of 47.61 seconds.
Other field nominees: UT Rio Grande Valley's Idatonya Cheetham-West won the long jump event with a mark of 6.04 meters before placing fourth in the shot put with a mark of 10.13 meters.