Dage Minors, a senior at Franklin Pierce University, has been named East Region Track Athlete of the Year by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
It is Minors’s second straight selection. Minors heads into this weekend’s NCAA Championships holding the nation’s fastest time in the 800 metres, after he posted a 1:48.70 in January, at the John Thomas Terrier Invitational hosted by Boston University. The time also ranks fifth all-time in Division II history.
Minors has bettered the automatic qualifying mark for the NCAA Championships in the event three times this winter.
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