King Named USTFCCCA All-American
5/26/2020 2:18:00 PM | Track and Field
NEW ORLEANS – UNI track and field junior Darius King was named an indoor track and field All-American in the shot put by the USTFCCCA Tuesday.
Normal policies dictate that All-America honors are awarded based on classifications of performance at the NCAA Championships.
Due to the cancellation of the 2020 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships, the NCAA Division I Track & Field Executive Committee adopted the following criteria:
• Based on the post-medical scratches startlist for the national championships posted on Wednesday, March 11 at 9:24 p.m., local, the following will be recognized as All-America for the 2020 indoor track & field season:
• Individual events: ALL student-athletes listed on the startlist for the anticipated event.
• Relay events: The four student-athletes per anticipated relay who produced the performance that was declared and accepted into their event. Those listed as alternates will not be recognized.
• There will not be a distinction of "first-team", "second-team", or "honorable mention" to these recognitions.
King qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championship in the shot put after throwing a career-best mark of 19.58m (64-feet-3) while breaking the facility and UNI record at the Jimmy Grant Invite hosted by the University of Iowa on Dec. 14.
He closed the season ranked 14th in the NCAA and earned AA honors for the first time of his career.
He won the MVC title, leading the UNI throws crew who took five of the top seven spots.
King is one of just two Missouri Valley Conference athletes to earn All-American honors, the other being Southern Illinois' Alexis Roberson in the female weight throw.
Normal policies dictate that All-America honors are awarded based on classifications of performance at the NCAA Championships.
Due to the cancellation of the 2020 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships, the NCAA Division I Track & Field Executive Committee adopted the following criteria:
• Based on the post-medical scratches startlist for the national championships posted on Wednesday, March 11 at 9:24 p.m., local, the following will be recognized as All-America for the 2020 indoor track & field season:
• Individual events: ALL student-athletes listed on the startlist for the anticipated event.
• Relay events: The four student-athletes per anticipated relay who produced the performance that was declared and accepted into their event. Those listed as alternates will not be recognized.
• There will not be a distinction of "first-team", "second-team", or "honorable mention" to these recognitions.
King qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championship in the shot put after throwing a career-best mark of 19.58m (64-feet-3) while breaking the facility and UNI record at the Jimmy Grant Invite hosted by the University of Iowa on Dec. 14.
He closed the season ranked 14th in the NCAA and earned AA honors for the first time of his career.
He won the MVC title, leading the UNI throws crew who took five of the top seven spots.
King is one of just two Missouri Valley Conference athletes to earn All-American honors, the other being Southern Illinois' Alexis Roberson in the female weight throw.
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