USTFCCCA tabs Moore All-American in 60 and 200
NEW ORLEANS – In a season shortened due to a pandemic, the United State Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Indoor Field Athlete (USTFCCCA) announced Indoor All-Americans Tuesday with Devon Moore posting honors in the 60 and 200.
NEW ORLEANS – In a season shortened due to a pandemic, the United State Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Indoor Field Athlete (USTFCCCA) announced Indoor All-Americans Tuesday with Devon Moore posting honors in the 60 and 200.
The organization awarded all student-athletes on the startlist for individual events All-American status with no distinction for first team or second team laurels.
Combining indoor and outdoor tallies, Carson-Newman's track program has produced 26 All-Americans, 13 from indoor, since the 2015 season. Moore passes 2018 National Champion Tanner Stepp, three, for the most indoor career All-American plaudits bringing his career tally to four with first-team honors in the 60 in 2018 and 2019.
The Baxley, Ga. native ties Stepp for the most All-Americans combining indoor and outdoor season bringing his career tally to six as the junior will have chance in 2021 to establish the program's new benchmark.
In 2019-20, he entered the postseason field with the fourth-fastest time in the country in the 60 using his 6.69, his career best, at the Finn Pincus Invitational on Jan. 24, 2020.
Looking at the 200, he entered the championships with the 10th best time in the country posting a spring-best of 21:24 at the VMI Indoor Classic on Feb. 14, 2020. He took home South Atlantic Conference titles in both events in 2020.
Moore was named the SAC's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year in 2020 after earning the outdoor honor in 2019. The junior was named the SAC Indoor Track Athlete of the Week three times this season tallying the program's first Indoor USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week on Jan. 14. He earned the same honor during outdoor season in 2019.
The Baxley, Ga. native registered a mark of 6.71 seconds in the 60, the second-fastest time in the sprint among all Division II athletes at the time. It came during Moore's first event after rejoining the team after the conclusion of the football season in the ETSU Invitational.
Moore won two SAC titles in the indoor season besting Lenoir-Rhyne's PJ Lotharp in the 60 by with a 6.76 time. He shaved over a half second off of his preliminary run in the 200 meters to topple Tusculum's Widchard Guervil with a time of 21.73.
Jahvad McDermott also earned his third career All-American honor taking home the award for the triple jump for the second straight season. With a 15.08m effort at the Bast-Cregger Invitational on Dec. 6, he posted the 11th-best mark in the country.
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