Duncan semifinalist for award
Kimberlyn Duncan wins the 200-meter dash at the NCAA Outdoor Championships earlier this month.
LSU junior Kimberlyn Duncan was named one of 10 semifinalists for The Bowerman, a national award given out by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
The Bowerman is college track and field’s equivalent to The Heisman Trophy in football and is presented annually to the top men’s and women’s track and field athlete.
The 10 semifinalists will be evaluated by the Bowerman’s advisory board, and three finalists will be named on Friday, June 29, during the U.S. Olympic Trials. This year’s winner will be announced Dec. 19, in conjunction with the USTFCCCA Convention in Orlando, Fla.
Duncan has emerged as a frontrunner for The Bowerman. She has already won the Honda Sports Award for women’s track and field given by the Collegiate
Women’s Sports Awards and as the NCAA Division I National Women’s Track Athlete of the Year by the USTFCCCA.
Duncan was the top scoring athlete of the NCAA Outdoor Championships for the second season in a row with 201/2 points.
She won the 200-meter dash for the second straight year, ran the anchor leg for LSU’s NCAA champion 4x100-meter relay team and finished second in the 100-meter dash final.
Those finishes helped the Lady Tigers win the NCAA meet with 76 points.
Duncan twice broke her own low-altitude collegiate record in the 200-meter dash. After setting a wind-legal personal record of 22.22 seconds in the national quarterfinals held at the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds in Jacksonville, Fla., on May 26,
Duncan eclipsed her own record for the second time in as many races with a wind-legal 22.19 clocking in the national semifinal.
Her personal-record time of 22.19 stands No. 2 on the NCAA’s all-time list, trailing only a 22.04 time set at altitude by LSU great Dawn Sowell at the 1989 NCAA Championships in Provo, Utah, on the campus of Brigham Young University.