2007 Conference Athletes of the Week

PLATT AND CURRELL SWEEP WEEKLY CONFERENCE AWARDS

CEDAR CITY, Utah – Nov. 14 – Southern Utah harriers Mark Currell and Sharla Platt were named the Summit League Athletes of the Week after their performances at the NCAA Mountain Regionals over the weekend.  The award is Currell’s fourth of the season and Platt’s second.

Currell captured his fourth Cross Country Male Athlete of the Week award this season after running a 31:33 10K time at the NCAA Mountain Regionals in Ogden, Utah last week. The time was good enough for 31st place in the 106-competitor race. He finished in the top one-third of the race and ran the second fastest time on the Ogden course in SUU school history.

Platt earned her second Cross Country Female Athlete of the Week award after receiving SUU’s first-ever female at-large individual selection into the NCAA Championships. She is also the only female runner from the Summit League to qualify. Her time of 21:27 placed her 18th in the field of 118 runners at the NCAA Mountain Regionals. It was the second-best place by a Thunderbird runner at an NCAA regional competition in school history.

Platt will travel to Terre Haute, Ind. and compete for an individual championship when the gun sounds at the NCAA Cross Country Championships on Monday, Nov. 19.

THUNDERBIRDS SWEEP WEEKLY CONFERENCE HONORS

CEDAR CITY, Utah - Sept. 11 - Southern Utah junior Sharla Platt and freshman Cam Levins have been named the Summit League cross country Athletes of the Week after their performances at the UC Irvine Invitational over the weekend.

Levins takes home the Summit League Men’s Cross Country Athlete of the Week award after finishing sixth out of 195 runners last weekend at the UC Irvine Invitational. He crossed the line in 24:44, the fastest 8K time in the Summit League this season. The freshman helped his Thunderbird teammates place second out of 20 teams competing in the invitational.

Platt earns the Female Athlete of the Week award after posting a time of 17:57 in the 5K UC Irvine Invitational last weekend, which propelled her into third place at the race. She helped pace Southern Utah to a fourth-place finish out of 12 women’s teams. In addition, her time is the fastest time by 30 seconds thus far in the Summit League.

Southern Utah will be back in action this weekend when the Thunderbirds travel back to California of for the Aztec Invitational.