NEW ORLEANS, La. – Redshirt junior and national champion thrower Magdalyn Ewen is a finalist for The Bowerman Award, announced the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association on Wednesday. The Bowerman is annually awarded to the top male and top female collegiate athlete in the sport of NCAA track & field.
Ewen becomes the first-ever Sun Devil female to become a finalist for the award, and just the second ASU track & field athlete along with six-time NCAA Champion Ryan Whiting. Since the award's inception in 2009, no NCAA thrower has ever won the award.
At the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships, Ewen captured her first NCAA title by throwing a new collegiate record in the women's hammer throw at 73.32m (240-7), blowing away the competition by over 25 feet. She now holds the first, third and fourth best marks in NCAA history.
She proceeded to blow away all women on the scoreboard as well, recording the second-most points in NCAA Championship meet history with 21 points behind a second-place finish in the discus and sixth in the shot put. Not only did she total more points than any male or female on the NCAA's biggest stage, it was good enough to put the Sun Devil women in 10th place – their highest finish since 2013.
Ewen has captured a number of other awards so far this season, including the USTFCCCA National and Regional Women's Field Athlete of the Year, Pac-12 Women's Field Athlete of the Year, and the Pac-12 Women's Athlete of the Meet at the conference championships.
At the Pac-12 Championships, Ewen became just the second-ever female thrower to win three conference titles in the same meet, and the first to capture the hammer throw, discus and shot put titles.
The redshirt junior will compete at the USATF Outdoor Championships this weekend in Sacramento, Calif.
The other finalists include Georgia's Keturah Orji and Oregon's Raevyn Rogers. The winner will be named at The Bowerman Award ceremony in December.
Ewen becomes the first-ever Sun Devil female to become a finalist for the award, and just the second ASU track & field athlete along with six-time NCAA Champion Ryan Whiting. Since the award's inception in 2009, no NCAA thrower has ever won the award.
At the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships, Ewen captured her first NCAA title by throwing a new collegiate record in the women's hammer throw at 73.32m (240-7), blowing away the competition by over 25 feet. She now holds the first, third and fourth best marks in NCAA history.
She proceeded to blow away all women on the scoreboard as well, recording the second-most points in NCAA Championship meet history with 21 points behind a second-place finish in the discus and sixth in the shot put. Not only did she total more points than any male or female on the NCAA's biggest stage, it was good enough to put the Sun Devil women in 10th place – their highest finish since 2013.
Ewen has captured a number of other awards so far this season, including the USTFCCCA National and Regional Women's Field Athlete of the Year, Pac-12 Women's Field Athlete of the Year, and the Pac-12 Women's Athlete of the Meet at the conference championships.
At the Pac-12 Championships, Ewen became just the second-ever female thrower to win three conference titles in the same meet, and the first to capture the hammer throw, discus and shot put titles.
The redshirt junior will compete at the USATF Outdoor Championships this weekend in Sacramento, Calif.
The other finalists include Georgia's Keturah Orji and Oregon's Raevyn Rogers. The winner will be named at The Bowerman Award ceremony in December.