2021 Women's Outdoor Track & Field All-Conference Team (PDF)
INDIANAPOLIS – With the national championship meet in the books, the Great Midwest Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field awards for the 2021 season were announced on Wednesday.
The top three place winners in each event have been recognized at the podium as part of the annual all-conference team from the Great Midwest Championships on May 5-7 at Owensboro, Ky., with Kentucky Wesleyan serving as host.
Awards for the 2021 spring season as a whole were voted upon by the coaches and the Elite 23 Award winner was also released.
The Great Midwest Women’s Track Athlete of the Year vote from the coaches was a tie between Tiffin sprinter Rajiah Andrews and Malone mid-distance standout Mackenna Curtis-Collins.
Andrews was an All-American in the 100-meter dash with a fourth-place finish of 11.57 seconds. She also was the conference field athlete of the meet at the Great Midwest Championships as she accounted for 22 total team points, including first place with the 4x100 relay.
Curtis-Collins emerged as the conference champion in two different outdoor events, the 1,500-meter run and the 5K, for the Pioneers. She was a national qualifier in the 5K and finished 10th with a time of 16:28.02. Curtis-Collins ranks second all-time in conference history in the 5K distance.
The Great Midwest Field Athlete of the Year was Walsh junior Ndidiamaka Anaraodo, who soared to NCAA All-American honors with a third-place performance in the shot put. For the Cavaliers, Anaraodo earned a conference championship title with a school record, overall Great Midwest record and a new meet record distance of 16.38m in Owensboro.
The Great Midwest Freshman of the Year was Findlay’s Paige Emnett as she established herself as a provisional qualifier in three different events, the discus and hammer throws and the shot put.
Emnett won a pair conference championship titles at the outdoor meet and helped the Oilers secure 26 points on their way to the championship team trophy. Emnett ranked top 25 in Division II in both shot put and the discus throw.
Great Midwest Coach of the Year honors went to Findlay’s Blaine Maag as the Oilers were crowned team champions in Owensboro. He had seven women’s student-athletes earn first team all-conference honors and conference pole vault champion Savannah Amato proceeded to become an All-American in Michigan.
The Elite 23 Award winner in women’s outdoor track and field was announced as Walsh senior Alyssa Viscounte. Viscounte ran in the 10K at the conference championship meet.
Viscounte has a cumulative 4.0 GPA while majoring in Community Clincial and Psychology.