NEC Indoor Trach & Field Honorees
NEC Outdoor Track & Field Honorees
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - The Northeast Conference office released Coach of the Year winners for both the Indoor and Outdoor seasons, along with the year's All-NEC squads this Friday. In a vote conducted by his peers, Simon Hodnett and his staff have been named the NEC Men's Indoor Track & Field Coach and Staff of the Year. 17 Blackbirds earned All-NEC honors outdoors, while 16 athletes earned indoor honors. LIU swept all the major awards on the men's side indoors this year, including capturing the team championship title, while the women's team won the outdoor championship title.
Hodnett and his staff led the LIU men's track & field team to the squad's first NEC team title since 2010, scoring 125 points over two days. The Blackbirds won seven individual titles, as junior Brendon Rodney was named the Most Valuable Performer and freshman Adam Walker-Khan was named the Most Outstanding Rookie and Most Outstanding Field Performer. Hodnett completed the major awards sweep this week, as his peers named him the the Coach of the Year.
It is his third Coach of the Year award in 13 seasons as the head coach; he was also named NEC Coach of the Year for women's indoor track & field in 2011, and earned the honor for both men's and women's indoor track & field in 2010.
Hodnett and the Blackbirds continued the success in the outdoor season, as the LIU staff helped lead the women's track & field team to an outdoor NEC championship title, the first for the Blackbirds since 2006. It was an especially impressive feat, considering LIU fielded only 15 athletes at the competition.
The conference also released the All-NEC teams, which are comprised of the top finishers at the conference meet. First place winners earned first-team All-NEC honors, while second place finishers earned second team honors.
2014 NEC Indoor Men's Track & Field Major Awards
Most Valuable Performer
Brendon Rodney, LIU Brooklyn
Most Outstanding Track Performer
Brendon Rodney, LIU Brooklyn
Most Outstanding Field Performer
Adam Walker-Khan, LIU Brooklyn
Most Outstanding Rookie
Adam Walker-Khan, LIU Brooklyn
Coach of the Year
Simon Hodnett, LIU Brooklyn
2014 NEC Indoor Men's All-Conference First Team
60m Brendon Rodney
200m Brendon Rodney
400m Alistair McLean
500m Mica-Jonathan Petit-Homme
Long Jump Adam Walker-Khan
Triple Jump Adam Walker-Khan
High Jump Kemar Lewis
2014 NEC Indoor Men's All-Conference Second Team
200m Alistair McLean
400m Brendon Rodney
4x400 Relay
2014 NEC Indoor Men's All-Rookie Team
Long Jump Adam Walker-Khan
Triple Jump Adam Walker-Khan
2014 NEC Indoor Women's All-Conference First Team
60 Hurdles Ja'Mesha Richard
800m Katrina Anderson
4x400 Relay
2014 NEC Indoor Women's All-Conference Second Team
400m Josephine Watson
2014 NEC Indoor Women's All-Rookie Team
500m Alea Stevens
2014 NEC Outdoor Men's All-Conference First Team
100m Brendon Rodney
200m Brendon Rodney
Long Jump Adam Walker-Khan
4x100m Relay (Williams, Rodney, Walker-Khan, Dukes)
4x400m Relay (McLean, Rodney, Augustin, Petit-Homme)
2014 NEC Outdoor Men's All-Conference Second Team
400H Mica-Jonathan Petit-Homme
Triple Jump Adam Walker-Khan
2014 NEC Outdoor Men's All-Rookie Team
Long Jump Adam Walker-Khan
Triple Jump Adam Walker-Khan
2014 NEC Outdoor Women's All-Conference First Team
800m Katrina Anderson
1500m Katrina Anderson
High Jump Kyaira Wright-Harmon
4x100m Relay (Richard, Williams, B., Williams, S., Grant)
4x400m Relay (Anderson, Williams, S., Cuffee, Watson)
2014 NEC Outdoor Women's All-Conference Second Team
100H Shanice Grant
400H Alea Stevens
Long Jump Bryanna Williams