INDIANAPOLIS – Trevecca Nazarene’s Brandon Laws and Malone’s Duke Taylor were selected Great Midwest Athletic Conference Men’s Indoor Track and Field Athletes of the Week on Monday.
 
Laws, who participated in the Armory Track Invitational in New York this past weekend, held his own and then some in a Division I field in the 3,000-meter race.
 
Laws posted a 8:27.03 time in the run to establish a new G-MAC record in the event. Laws now owns the first and fifth-best times in the conference record book for the 3K distance.
        
Taylor, who has become a familiar name in the Athlete of the Week category with his fifth selection, competed in the Akron Invitational this past weekend.
 
Taylor competed in two events at the Division 1 meet, finishing seventh in the Gold Division weight throw with a mark of 61’4 (18.69m). Taylor’s throw fell less than a foot short of his school record of 62’1 (18.92m), which was set two weekends ago at the SPIRE Midwest Open.
 
Taylor also competed in the Gold Division discus competition and finished ninth with a throw of 164’ (49.99m).
 
Trevecca is back on the track Saturday for the Samford Invitational in Birmingham, Ala.
 
Malone has scheduled meets for this upcoming weekend. Friday, it travels to compete at the Tiffin University Dragon Open and Saturday  they travel up north for the Grand Valley State University Big Meet.