Favours Lands First Career Big Ten Athlete of the Week Award – Ohio State Buckeyes
2/21/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track & Field
Feb. 21, 2006
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ayrizanna Favours, a freshman sprinter on the Ohio State women’s track and field team, was named Athlete of the Week in an announcement made by the Big Ten Tuesday. Saturday at the Scarlet and Gray Invitational, Favours timed winning marks in both the 55-meter and 200-meter dashes.
The native of Columbus and product of Eastmoor Academy capped her first indoor regular season with a NCAA provisional qualifier and career-best time of 6.92 to claim the 55m event. Later, she notched a career standard in the 200-meter dash, winning in another career-best time of 24.2.
The weekly league award is Favour’s first of her career. Sophomore thrower Lenny Jatsek claimed the weekly honor for the men’s team Jan. 24. Favours is Ohio State’s first female athlete of the week since Shelaine Larson earned the indoor award on Feb. 22, 2005.
The Ohio State men’s and women’s teams split up for the Big Ten championship meets Saturday and Sunday. The men head to Iowa and the women compete at Wisconsin. Favours heads to the league meet with the third-best 60m and sixth-fastest 200m times in the conference.
