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Wilbourn Named ACC Women’s Outdoor Coach of the Year
6/23/2021 11:00:00 AM | Track & Field
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Duke Director of Track & Field and Cross Country Shawn Wilbourn was named the 2021 ACC Women's Outdoor Coach of the Year, announced by the league on Wednesday along with the 2021 outdoor track & field yearly awards.
Wilbourn becomes the first Duke track & field coach to be named coach of the year by the ACC, indoor or outdoor, since the award's creation in 1984. His honor comes on the heels of the first ACC Women's Outdoor Championship in program history, which the Blue Devils secured in May.
The award caps off a historic season for Duke track & field, who's women's team collected USTFCCCA First Team All-America honors in three events – the heptathlon, 4x400m relay and 100m hurdles – for the most since 2011. Graduate student Brittany Aveni took home All-America honors in the 400m, 4x100m and 4x400m to add to her previous two All-America awards and become the first five-time All-American in program history.
Senior Erin Marsh enjoyed the best NCAA Outdoor Championship performance by a Duke woman in seven years, as Marsh finished fourth in the heptathlon with a school record of 5,924 points. Wilbourn continued his success working with multis, qualifying two for the heptathlon at the NCAA Outdoor Championship as one of only four schools to do so this season.
Under Wilbourn, the program took home four ACC individual event titles in the outdoor championships, including three on the women's side as Aveni won the 400m, sophomore Elasia Campbell won the high jump and the 4x400m relay team of Aveni, graduate students Iman Sule, Elena Brown-Soler and sophomore Jenna Crean won the final event of the championships to clinch the ACC title.
This season, the women's outdoor school records in the 100m, 200m, 400m, 100m hurdles, 400m hurdles, 4x100m, 4x400m and heptathlon have all fallen, with several other events seeing their record books changed with top-five times.
Wilbourn has also coached four active Blue Devils that are participating in the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials. Senior Lauren Hoffman and Marsh are still to compete next weekend, from Friday, June 25 through Sunday, June 27.
To stay up to date with Blue Devils track & field, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeTFXC."
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Wilbourn becomes the first Duke track & field coach to be named coach of the year by the ACC, indoor or outdoor, since the award's creation in 1984. His honor comes on the heels of the first ACC Women's Outdoor Championship in program history, which the Blue Devils secured in May.
The award caps off a historic season for Duke track & field, who's women's team collected USTFCCCA First Team All-America honors in three events – the heptathlon, 4x400m relay and 100m hurdles – for the most since 2011. Graduate student Brittany Aveni took home All-America honors in the 400m, 4x100m and 4x400m to add to her previous two All-America awards and become the first five-time All-American in program history.
Senior Erin Marsh enjoyed the best NCAA Outdoor Championship performance by a Duke woman in seven years, as Marsh finished fourth in the heptathlon with a school record of 5,924 points. Wilbourn continued his success working with multis, qualifying two for the heptathlon at the NCAA Outdoor Championship as one of only four schools to do so this season.
Under Wilbourn, the program took home four ACC individual event titles in the outdoor championships, including three on the women's side as Aveni won the 400m, sophomore Elasia Campbell won the high jump and the 4x400m relay team of Aveni, graduate students Iman Sule, Elena Brown-Soler and sophomore Jenna Crean won the final event of the championships to clinch the ACC title.
This season, the women's outdoor school records in the 100m, 200m, 400m, 100m hurdles, 400m hurdles, 4x100m, 4x400m and heptathlon have all fallen, with several other events seeing their record books changed with top-five times.
Wilbourn has also coached four active Blue Devils that are participating in the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials. Senior Lauren Hoffman and Marsh are still to compete next weekend, from Friday, June 25 through Sunday, June 27.
To stay up to date with Blue Devils track & field, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeTFXC."
#GoDuke
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