INDIANAPOLIS – Alderson Broaddus and Findlay both shared Great Midwest Athletic Conference Men’s Indoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week awards that were announced on Tuesday afternoon.
Men’s Track Athlete of the Week
Imo Sunday
Alderson Broaddus
Sprints
Freshman
Laurel, MD (Reservoir HS)
Sunday and the Battlers competed at the West Virginia Open in Morgantown under first-year head coach Kaylyn Christopher, who joined the program right after cross country season.
It was a homecoming of sorts for AB’s new coach, a former academic and athletic All-American for the Mountaineers as a student-athlete.
Sunday gave his best on Saturday as the Battlers swept track athlete of the week honors following Diamond Turner’s section on the women’s side. Sunday ran the 60-meter dash, 200-meter dash and the 4x400 relay.
Sunday crossed the line first in the 200-meter dash, beating out 17 runners with a time of 23.17 in the finals.
In the 60-meter dash, Sunday was runner-up and he improved his preliminary standing of third with a final time of 7.13.
He also helped AB finish second in the 4x400-meter relay.
Men’s Field Athlete of the Week
Sterling Mungro
Findlay
Throws
Junior
Desota, Texas (Desota HS/Iowa Central CC)
Mungro currently ranks top 10 in Division II in both the shot put and weight throw for the indoor season after shining at the Findlay Open to start the new calendar year.
He finished sixth in the weight throw and seventh in shot put in his first event of 2020.
It’s not easy to crack the top 10 in the conference record books with Oilers’ program standouts Eldred Henry and Austin Combs looming down the list.
But Mungro was close, and the conference now has four of the top 10 throwers in the country in the shot put with Tiffin’s Jabari Bennett, Nikolas Curtiss, Eric Jackson and most recently, Mungro.
He tossed the shot put a distance of 16.56m (54’ 4”).
Mungro is now tied for fifth nationally in the weight throw, currently ranking at the top of the Great Midwest this season with a distance of 19.87m (65’ 2.25”).