Florida's Parker Valby & Texas' Leo Neugebauer win The Bowerman Award...
ORLANDO-- Distance runner Parker Valby of Florida and multi event specialist Leo Neugebauer (photos by Paul Merca) of Texas were selected by a panel of national and regional media personnel, track & field statisticians, NCAA collegiate administrators, past winners, presidents of affiliated organizations, fans and members of the USTFCCCA as the 2024 Bowerman Award winners in a ceremony in conjunction with the USTFCCCA Convention Thursday night at the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes Resort in Orlando, Florida. The Bowerman Award is presented to the most outstanding collegiate male and female athlete of the 2024 season, and is the sport's equivalent to football's Heisman Trophy and basketball's Wooden Award. Valby won a pair of NCAA doubles – the 3000-5000 indoors and the 5000-10,000 outdoors, all in meet records. In both cases, the 5000-meter marks also served as a new collegiate record (indoors breaking her own from earlier in the season). Valby added a CR of 3...
