Ohio State Claims Both Men’s and Women’s Big Ten Track and Field Athletes of the Week – Ohio State Buckeyes
4/12/2004 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track & Field
April 12, 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State senior sprinter/hurdler Joel Brown and junior jumper Rosalind Goodwin each staked claim to Big Ten Athlete of the Week honors Monday after their performances at the 2004 Brutus Hamilton Invitational at the University of California at Berkeley Saturday.
Brown, a product of Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, Md., led the OSU sprints squad by topping the field in the 200-meter dash with a NCAA Mideast Regional qualifying time of 20.99. The defending Big Ten outdoor 110-meter hurdles champion also contributed a top mark of 13.62, another regional qualifier, to win the 110m event. The season-best 13.62 fell just .04 shy of his Ohio State record 13.58 set on two occasions last season and affords Brown the Top 2 all-time marks in program history in the 110m hurdles. Both of Brown’s times in the 200m and 110m hurdles rank among the top marks in the Big Ten, while his hurdles time stands fourth nationally.
In his final event Saturday, Brown anchored the men’s 4×100-meter relay team to a fourth-place and season-best time of 41.52. Brown shared the weekly award with Lynden Reder of Minnesota, who snapped the Golden Gopher school record in the hammer throw.
Goodwin (Prospect, Ky./ Louisville Ballard), who won the conference indoor crown in both the indoor long jump and triple jump, reached season bests in qualifying for the Mideast regionals with a runner-up leap of 42-1.50 in the triple and a third-place bound of 20-0.50 in the long jump. Both of Goodwin’s marks from the Hamilton rank No. 1 in the conference so far in 2004.
The award is the second in 2004 for Goodwin, who claimed the honor once in the indoor campaign, while Brown is a recipient for the third time in his career and first occasion in 2004. In all, Ohio State has won 11 Big Ten weekly awards in 2004, with senior thrower Dan Taylor (Middlefield, Ohio/ Berkshire) accounting for seven of those merits. Other Buckeyes to win the award in 2004 are throwers Keturah Lofton (Jr., Zanesville, Ohio/ Zanesville) and Amarachi Ukabam (So., Creve Couer, Mo./ Marquette).
This week, Ohio State plays host to the 2004 All-Ohio Track and Field Championships, where the Buckeyes seek to defend their 2003 event titles in both the men’s and women’s team competitions. The All-Ohio championships are slated to get underway at 4 p.m. Friday and continue at 10 a.m. Saturday in Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.
