FRISCO, Texas ? UTSA senior All-American Ryanne Dupree has collected her fifth Aeropostale/Southland Conference Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Athlete of the Week honor for her school record-setting performance at the Kansas Relays last week, the league office announced Tuesday.
Dupree continued her remarkable senior campaign with a strong performance at the 80th Kansas Relays in Lawrence, Kan., last Friday and Saturday. The East Central High product shattered the school record in the 100-meter hurdles, racing to a 13.25 for first place ahead of Nikkita Holder of Illinois (13.44). That time bettered the previous UTSA standard of 13.36 set by Tiffany Talbert in 2000 and combined with the 13.72 clocking in the prelims, gave her a 10th NCAA regional qualifier in the event this season. The two-time SLC Athlete of the Year also ran the lead leg on UTSA’s school record-setting 4x100m shuttle hurdle relay team that won ahead of Illinois (57.69) and Nebraska (58.80). Dupree tied Nebraska’s Zarinah Suluki-Drakes for first in the long jump (finished second due to second-best jump) with a regional-qualifying 20-0 1/4 mark and tied for fifth in the high jump by clearing a season-best 5-7.
Dupree also won the weekly award on March 13, 20 and 27 and April 10. Cody Fillinich of Northwestern was the men’s honoree this week.
