MAC Field Athlete of the Week
Ta’riq Thomas (Delaware Valley / Sr. / Woodstown, N.J.) earns his second conference weekly award of the season. Thomas won all three jump events at the Muhlenberg College Invitational. His most impressive mark was his triple jump mark of 14.65 meters (48’-0.75”) which ranks sixth in Division III and topped his previous best conference mark of the season. Thomas’ mark is just shy of the overall conference record of 14.86 meters. The senior also won the high jump with a mark of 1.85 meters (6’-0.75”) and the long jump with a distance of 7.19 meters (23’-7.25”). Thomas already owns the nation’s top long jump mark, but this week’s also ranks fourth in Division III.