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Lincoln ? During the recent NCAA Indoor Championships, the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) released its regional coach, assistant coach and athlete of the year awards. In the Midwest Region, Multi-Event and Pole Vault Coach Kris Grimes was selected as Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year.
The fourth such honor of his career and third at Nebraska, Grimes coached two women and two men to five All-America honors at the recent indoor championships, including one school record.
In the women’s pentathlon, Megan Wheatley and Chantae McMillan earned the first NCAA All-America honors of their careers. The duo’s pair of top-eight finishes marked the second time in Husker history that two Huskers have earned All-America honors in the pentathlon at the same meet, with Marjan Goedhart (8th) and Nancy Kindig (2nd) being the first teammates to achieve the feat in 1982. McMillan then followed with an All-America performance in the long jump, finishing 13th overall and eighth among American jumpers.
On the men’s side of the multi, Bj?rn Barrefors become the first Husker in school history since the indoor championships started in 1965 to earn All-America honors in the men’s heptathlon with a school-record score of 5,795, topping Bill Vacek’s 1996 score of 5,766. On his way to a third-place finish, Barrefors set four personal bests on his way to a personal-best score, including three straight PR’s on day one in the 60-meter dash (7.13), long jump (24-2 1/2) and shot put (46-10), before ending the heptathlon with a nearly two second personal best in the 1,000-meter run with a time of 2:50.57.
In the men’s pole vault, Seth Burney became the first Husker on the men’s side to earn All-America honors indoors since 2006 when Ray Scotten finished 11th overall and eighth among American vaulters. The Beatrice, Neb., native’s fifth-place finish is also the top finish for a Husker in the pole vault since 2005, when Scotten finished second.
In his fourth season at Nebraska, Grimes has coached athletes that have earned a total of 13 All-America honors, while also coaching 10 Big 12 Champions.
Each of the nine regions (Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, South, Southeast, South Central, Midwest, Mountain, West) are presented with a track athlete, field athlete, coach and assistant coach of the year award on both the men’s and women’s side.