MUNCIE, Ind. - - For her record-setting performance at last Saturday’s Mastodon Opener, Ball State track & field senior thrower Marie Lumpkin (Losantville, Ind./Union) has been named the Mid-American Conference Women’s Field Athlete of the Week.
Lumpkin, who earns the honor for the first time in her career, opened the 2015-16 indoor season by posting a school-record mark of 18.55m (60’-10”) to win the weight throw at the Mastodon Opener. An elementary education major with a 3.687 grade-point average, Lumpkin’s effort currently ranks 11th on the NCAA Division I Women’s Indoor Performance List and is 0.