Milkevics, Selig Earn Weekly Big 12 Honors

Dallas, Texas ? Sophomore Dmitrijs Milkevics and junior Ashley Selig were named Big 12 Indoor Track Athletes of the Week Tuesday for their performances at last weekend’s Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational. The conference honor is the first for each athlete.

                                                                                                                    

Milkevics set a collegiate-record time of 1:15.60 to win the 600-meter run on Saturday. The Riga, Latvia, native’s mark was only .48 shy of the world record, while he smashed the NU (1:19.05) and Bob Devaney Sports Center (1:17.92) marks. The former collegiate standard was set by Tom Gerding of Minnesota in 2001. Milkevics shared the weekly men’s award with Texas A&M’s Fabrice Lapierre.

 

Selig compiled the greatest indoor pentathlon performance of her career to win the event with a career-best and nation-leading score of 4,171 points on Friday. The Lincoln, Neb., native set personal-best marks in both the high jump (5-7 3/4) and shot put (38-5) on her way to overtaking the No. 1 performance in the Big 12 and claiming an NCAA automatic-qualifying mark. It was the third-best point total in NU history and currently ranks No. 1 in the NCAA by 83 points over second-place Amber Williams of Miami (Fla.).

 

Milkevics and Selig each earned a pair of NCAA All-America honors for NU last season. Milkevics claimed sixth place in the 800 meters at both the 2004 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships. Selig finished seventh in the pentathlon at last year’s indoor national meet, before earning bronze in the heptathlon at outdoor nationals.