The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced the All-Region honorees for the 2019 NCAA Div. 2 Indoor Track & Field season on Tuesday.
Simon Fraser University, as the lone Canadian in the NCAA circuit, put 10 athletes on the list.
The distance medley squads for both the men and women received the honour, as did the women’s 4x400m squad.
Named to the All-Region team were Aaron Ahl (distance medley, mile), Pierre-Louis Detourbe (distance medley, 3000m, mile), Rowan Doherty (distance medley, 3000m, mile), Burnaby’s Nathan Mah (200m), Carlos Vargas (distance medley), Renate Bluschke (distance medley, 4x400m), Sophie Dodd (800m, distance medley, 4x400m), Paige Nock (distance medley), Addy Townsend (distance medley, mile 4x400m, 800m), and Bryce West (4x400m).
Ahl, Detourbe, Doherty, Vargas and Nate St. Romain will be competing at this week’s NCAA Indoor national championships in the distance medley. On the women’s side, Dodd and Townsend are entered in the 800m as well as part of the women’s distance medley, with Bluschke and Nock.
A total of 1,612 student-athletes from 157 institutions earned All-Region honors nationwide with 801 honorees coming from the men’s side and an additional 811 selections from women’s teams.
No program had more combined All-Region honorees than Grand Valley State with 60. Three other programs had more than 40 student-athletes selected: Embry-Riddle (Fla.), Queens (N.C.) and Lee (Tenn.).
On a conference level, nobody had more than the Northeast-10 with 164 recipients. Following that ground was the GNAC with 136 while the PSAC and MIAA each had 116.
To earn All-Region honors, an athlete must be one of the top-5 individuals in their event in their respective region. In addition, each member of a region’s top-3 relay teams was also selected for the distinction. The eight regions used in NCAA DII are the Atlantic, Central, East, Midwest, South, South Central, Southeast and West.S
