NEW ORLEANS, La. --- Thirteen members of the Tusculum University men's and women's track & field team have been recognized as All-Southeast Region for the 2024 outdoor season by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
Ten men and three women representing a total of seven individual events and two relays received All-Region status, which is granted to the top five individuals in each event from each region along with each member of the region's top three relay teams.
Tusculum had three honored as Top Region Performer in their respective events, which went to the men's 4x100 relay of senior Jordan Taylor, sophomore Isaiah Olson, freshman Lansford Cunningham and senior Marquel Pittman, along with sophomore Theresa Green-White in the women's 100 hurdles and freshman Caley Sosnowski in the women's javelin.
Also honored by the USTFCCCA were the men's 4x400 relay of grad student Zack Nelson, Cunningham, grad student Antonio Aparicio and senior Dorian Craven, sophomore Adrian Gumm (men's shot put), freshman Dylan Horne (men's discus), Olson (men's 200), sophomore Daryl Smith Jr. (men's triple jump) and sophomore Kiera Taylor (women's 100).
Nelson, Craven, Pittman, Smith and Green-White also received All-Region status from the USTFCCCA during the 2024 indoor track & field season. Nelson is outdoor All-Region in the 4x400 for the third straight year, while Aparicio and Craven earned All-Region in the 4x400 for the second year in a row, along with Taylor and Pittman in the 4x100. Pittman was also All-Region in the 4x400 in 2022.
The 4x100 relay of Taylor, Olson, Cunningham and Pittman won gold at the South Atlantic Conference Championship with a time of 40.07 seconds, which was the fastest time in the region and 18th-best nationally. The 4x400 relay of Nelson, Cunningham, Aparicio and Craven took second place at the SAC Championship and then broke its own school record at the Lee Last Chance Meet on May 11 at 3:10.72, which was second-best in the region and 27th-fastest in Division II.
Olson won the 200 meters at the SAC Outdoor Championship, then posted a season-best time of 20.95 seconds at the Lee Last Chance Meet. Olson had the third-best time in the region and was ranked 30th in Division II at the conclusion of the season. His time of 20.95 seconds is the second-fastest in program history and just one of three sub-21 second times from a Pioneer.
Smith, who was second-team All-American in the triple jump at the 2024 NCAA Division II Indoor Championship, backed up his performance outdoors with a mark of 15.10 meters (49 feet, 6 1/2 inches) set at the Blue Bear Invite on March 30. Smith was ranked third in the region in the triple jump and took second place at the SAC Championship, and will compete at the NCAA Division II Outdoor championship in the event.
Horne recorded the third-best discus throw in the region on April 19 at the Catamount Classic, with a school-record mark of 47.95 meters (157 feet, 3 inches). Gumm broke his own school record in the shot put on April 13 at the Sharonda Coleman Classic with a mark of 15.49 meters (50 feet, 9 3/4 inches), and ended the season with a third-place finish at the SAC Championship and ranked fifth in the region.
Green-White broke her own school record in the 100 hurdles five times this season, the last at the Lee Last Chance Meet when she ran 13.67 seconds. Green-White, who was second in the SAC Championship, was also Top Region Performer during the indoor season in the 60 hurdles. She is ranked ninth in Division II in the 100 hurdles heading into the NCAA Championship.
Sosnowski is tied for the longest javelin throw in Division II this season with a mark of 49.05 meters (160 feet, 11 inches) that she set in winning the SAC Championship. Sosnowski had six of the top 10 marks in program history in the event, including each of the top five.
Taylor ran 11.81 seconds at the SAC Outdoor Championship and finished in fifth place, while also posting the fifth-fastest time in the region. Her mark tied her school record that she set at the Catamount Classic on April 15, 2023, and she owns four of the five fastest times in the 100 meters in program history.
Green-White will be first to compete for the Pioneers at this weekend's NCAA Division II Championship in Emporia, Kansas, with trials in the 100 hurdles set for 7:50 p.m. on Friday. Smith will be in the triple jump on Saturday at 1:45 p.m. and Sosnowski will follow in the javelin at 2:30 p.m. Finals in the women's 100 hurdles are 3:55 p.m. on Saturday. All times listed are Eastern.
