University of Tennessee Athletics
Coleman Named SEC Runner of the Week
January 17, 2017 | Track & Field
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Tennessee junior Christian Coleman was named SEC Men’s Runner of the Week the conference office announced on Tuesday.
Coleman earned the honor after posting the top 60m time in the world so far during the 2017 year. He won the event at the Commodore invitational as he posted a time of 6.54 in the finals. Coleman reached the final with a mark of 6.56 in the prelims. This was the first time this season that he has run the 60m.
Those marks by the Atlanta, Ga. native are also the two fastest 60m marks in the NCAA this year. Coleman’s time set a Vanderbilt Multipurpose Facility record, breaking the mark of Ole Miss’ Jalen Miller set in 2015.
This is the fifth time that Coleman has earned the SEC Runner of the Week Award. He won the award three times as a sophomore and once as a freshman. He has also earned recognition from the SEC as the SEC Freshman of the week twice. He earned the SEC Freshman of the Year and SEC Indoor Runner of the Year after earning the Cliff Harper Award for the top scorer at the SEC Indoor meet last year.
This is the second SEC Runner of the Week award Tennessee has won in 2017 as Shania Collins won the women’s award last week. Tennessee earned eight weekly awards during the 2016 track season.
Tennessee will not compete this weekend as the teams prepare for the Razorback Invitational hosted by the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark. on Jan. 27-28.
