The App State women’s track and field team is off to a hot start in large part to some stand out performances from the team’s freshmen. The Mountaineers placed first and second in their first two competitive team meets with freshmen leading the team in seven of the 16 event categories.
“I think it’s a good environment for them to come into and see that they can help right away,” head coach Damion McLean said. “As the recruiting process was going on with them last year, we kind of saw that in their performances from high school, and we knew when they got here we could develop them a little bit better for them to help early too.