July 17, 2015 Article from GOBLUERAIDERS.COM
FOUR NAMED USTFCCCA ALL-ACADEMIC INDIVIDUALS
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NEW ORLEANS – Four Middle Tennessee track & field athletes were named United States Track & Field
and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic Individuals today as
announced by the organization.
838 women earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors with Josphine Kiptebeny being the lone
Blue Raider to earn the accolade. John Ampomah, Atsu Nyamadi and Phillip Smith earned
the honors and were three of the 529 men.
Kiptebeny competed in cross country, indoor and outdoor track for MT. She was a member
of the 2014 women's cross country team, which captured its first conference championship
in program history. The Eldoret, Kenya native majors in community and public health.
Ampomah, a criminal justice major, and Nyamadi, a biology major, represented Middle
Tennessee at the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Ampomah placed second
in the javelin and holds the MT record in the event. The rising senior never finished
lower than second in the javelin during the 2015 campaign and was named 2015 C-USA
Male Field Athlete of the Year.
Nyamadi, the MT record holder in the decathlon, finished ninth in the decathlon and
set a new personal-best with 7,567 points in the event at the NCAA Championships.
At the NCAA, the Accra, Ghana native grabbed his highest finishes in the discus and
the javelin, placing fourth in each event.
Smith, who majors in finance, competed in the long, high and triple jumps. The Clarksville,
Tenn., native helped MT at the C-USA Indoor Championships with a seventh place finish
in the triple jump, while at the outdoor conference championship, he cleared a season-best
in the high jump for seventh.