DALLAS — UTSA sophomore Danielle Spence has been named Conference USA Female Co-Field Athlete of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday. All C-USA weekly awards are presented by Top of the World.
Spence recorded the longest outdoor triple jump in school and Park West Athletics Complex history with a wind-legal mark of 13.36 meters (43-10) to take top honors in the event at the Roadrunner Invitational last Saturday in San Antonio. Her winning measurement surpassed the previous UTSA record of 12.98m by Kristin Gran set all the way back in 1984 and also eclipsed the previous facility standard of 12.97m by Texas A&M's Lajarvia Brown at the 2017 Roadrunner Invitational.
Spence, who won the C-USA Indoor triple crown with a school-record mark of 13.37m (43-10 ½) and earned second-team All-America honors with a 13th-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships on March 9, currently leads the conference and ranks second in the nation in the triple jump. The Kingston, Jamaica, native also finished fifth in the long jump at the Roadrunner Invitational last Saturday with a leap of 5.86m (19-2 ¾), which stands fourth in the league.
The weekly award is the second for Spence, who also was honored on Jan. 29 after breaking a 27-year-old school record in the indoor triple jump, and she shared the honor with FIU's Clarissa Cutliff. It also marks the fourth collected by a Roadrunner this year (Gary Haasbroek, Jan. 29; Vincent Perez, Feb. 5).
The Roadrunners will return to action this Wednesday-Saturday, March 27-30, when they make the short trek up I-35 for the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin.
