DALLAS – WKU Track & Field opened the indoor season over the weekend, and fifth-year senior Savannah Heckman was named the Conference USA Female Track Athlete of the Week for her stellar performance in the mile at the Commodore Challenge.
Heckman logged the third-fastest indoor female mile time in program history with a 19-second PR and a time of 4:51.49. She finished second in the event out of 14 runners and has the best mile time in the league by over nine seconds.
The Louisville native tied Breeda Dennehy's time from 1991 and is just a second behind Vasity Chemweno (2011) and 10 seconds off Janet Jesang's school record of 4:41.57 from 2010.
In the fall cross country season, Heckman became the first WKU women's runner since 2014 to be named C-USA Athlete of the Week for Cross Country. It was also the first time since 2015 that a WKU cross county runner for either men or women earned the honor.
This is Heckman's first weekly award of her career on the track side and the first for WKU this season.
WKU will return to the Music City this weekend for its second indoor meet in the Vanderbilt Invitational.
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