Men's Outdoor Track & Field

Abbott Named USTFCCCA All-Region

Abbott Named USTFCCCA All-Region
Posted: Jun 27, 2022

NEW ORLEANS - Junior Ashtyn Abbott (Farmingdale, Maine) has been named All-Region by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) last week.

Top-5 individuals in each event from each region earned All-Region honors, in addition to each of the members of a top-3 ranked relay team. Abbott posted the fourth-highest effort (1.86m) in the High Jump event at the 2022 New England DIII Outdoor Track & Field Championships, hosted by Williams College on May 5th.

Only USTFCCCA member programs are eligible for awards.

Abbott, who also plays basketball at Saint Joseph's, enjoyed an excellent outdoor season as a junior. In the 2022 GNAC Championships at Colby-Sawyer on May 1st, he won the High Jump (1.85m), placed second in the Triple Jump (12.19m), and fourth in the Long Jump (6.10m) to help St. Joe's finish second – and just seven points shy of the title.

Abbott's crowning achievement came in the program's first-ever full home meet on April 16th, when he broke the Monks' High Jump mark with a 1.94m effort.

Abbott is the only GNAC athlete to be listed on the 2022 USTFCCCA All-Region teams.

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NEW ORLEANS – All Region honors for the 2022 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field season were announced on Wednesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) following the conclusion of the regular season.

Overall, there were 15 women's programs and 11 men's programs that earned 20 or more All-Region honors for their efforts during the 2022 outdoor season. Of those 36 programs, none took home more laurels than the Rowan men with 42. SUNY Geneseo had the most on the women's side with 35, followed by UW-La Crosse and Johns Hopkins, both with 33.

SUNY Geneseo had the most combined All-Region honors with 63. Four other programs had 50 or more plaudits: MIT and Rowan, which both had 55; UW-La Crosse and Williams, which both had 54.

At the conference level, the NESCAC reigned supreme with 239 honors. The WIAC finished a distant second with 160, followed by the NEWMAC with 141 and the UAA with 140.

 

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