OU Receives Four USTFCCCA Regional Honors

June 4, 2010

NORMAN, Okla. -- Four members of the Oklahoma Track and Field program received United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Midwest Regional honors the association announced Friday. Ronnie Ash was named the USTFCCCA Men's Track Athlete of the Year for the Midwest while Karen Shump was named the Midwest Women's Field Athlete of the Year. The two were joined by their respective coaches in receiving the honor as men's sprints coach Matt Kane was named the Midwest Men's Assistant Coach of the Year while OU throws coach Brian Blutreich was named the Midwest Women's Assistant Coach of the Year.

For Ash and Shump, the honors are the latest additions to their trophy cases after both swept the Big 12 indoor/outdoor titles in their respective events with Shump winning the shot put and Ash winning the 60- and 110-meter hurdles.

Ash, who holds the OU program record in the 110 hurdles, enters next week's NCAA Championships ranked No. 1 in the NCAA and No. 3 in the world and has yet to be defeated in the event this year. Shump carries the No. 3 national seed in the shot put into NCAAs and owns four titles on the season along with the Oklahoma program record.

Friday's honor is not the first coaching honor for Blutreich, as the third-year Sooner coach has been named the USTFCCCA National Assistant Coach of the Year on two different occasions, most recently in 2007. For Kane, the award is his first coaching honor on the NCAA Division I level after being named the 2009 NJCAA National Men's Coach of the Year while overseeing the track and field program at Barton County Community College.

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OU Receives Four USTFCCCA Regional Honors

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