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The Southern ConferencePublished: 3/25/2026, Last updated: 3/25/2026
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SoCon announces Outdoor Track Athletes of the Week

Week 2 brings more personal bests for multiple athletes

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Western Carolina’s Trevor Williams, Austin Cline, and Sadler Miller have been named the Southern Conference men’s track, men’s field, and women’s outdoor field athletes of the week, respectively. VMI’s Naturale Faison has been selected as the women’s outdoor track athlete of the week, the conference office announced Wednesday. 

All four honorees competed at the Big South vs. SoCon Challenge hosted by UNC Asheville on March 20–21. 

Williams earned an individual title and personal best in the 400 meters, winning the event in 48.52. The Catamounts sophomore now leads the conference in the event. 

Cline won the hammer throw with a personal-best mark of 54.91 meters, a performance that ranks fifth all-time in Western Carolina history and leads the SoCon. 

Miller, a senior, captured the high jump title with a conference-leading clearance of 1.68 meters. 

Faison claimed individual titles in both the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes. The VMI sophomore set personal bests in each event, running 11.85 in the 100, and 24.44 in the 200. 

Western Carolina will return to action in Hogh Point, North Carolina, at the Vertklasse Meeting on April 2-3, while VMI competes next at the Electric City Invitational on April 3-4 in Anderson, South Carolina.  

2025-26 Southern Conference Outdoor Track and Field Athletes of the Week   

March 18 

Men’s Track – Trevor Williams, WCU  

Men’s Field – Austin Cline, WCU  

Women’s Track – Shaneil Lysight, WCU  

Women’s Field – Ellison Chadwick, Samford 

March 25 

Men’s Track – Trevor Williams, WCU  

Men’s Field – Austin Cline, WCU  

Women’s Track – Naturale Faison, VMI  

Women’s Field – Sadler Miller, WCU  

 


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