Track & Field 5/7/2014 3:00:00 PM

ALL-DECADE TEAMS FOR WOMEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD ANNOUNCED

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Shemelia Brandon and Tiffany Evans represented Radford on the Big South all-decade teams for women's outdoor track and field, which were released Wednesday by the conference office.

As part of the Big South's 30th anniversary celebration in 2013-14, the conference is announcing its all-decade teams to recognize student-athletes and coaches who excelled in their respective sport since the conference's founding in 1983. A committee of Big South Conference administrators served as the official voting panel to determine the all-decade teams, with fan voting comprising 20 percent of the overall total.

Women's outdoor track and field became a conference sport in 1994. Each all-decade team features eight sprinters, eight distance runners, eight jumpers, six throwers, two heptathletes (2000-09 only) and one head coach. In case of ties, additional honorees were included.

A four-time Big South champion and an eight-time all-conference performer in the long jump, the triple jump and the 4x400, Brandon was a premier jumper for the Highlanders from 2006 to 2009. She leaped a 19-07.50 (long jump) at the 2006 Big South championships, and a 42-01.75 (triple jump) at the 2008 Big South championships, which are both school records.

Evans was one of the best throwers to ever come through RU and the Big South. A six-time Big South champion and a nine-time all-conference honoree in the shot put, the hammer and the discus, Evans left her mark while competing for the Highlanders.

She has all of the top 10 shot put marks in program history, including the school-record toss of 51-00.75 at the 2007 Big South championships. In addition, Evans owns the school record for the discus (148-04.00), which she delivered at the 2007 Winthrop Invitational.

1994-99 WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD ALL-DECADE TEAM
Event – Name, School (Notes)
S – Tosha Ansley, Charleston Southern (2-time Champion, 5-time All-Conference (100m-hurdles, 400m-hurdles))
S – Audrey Ebanks, Liberty (Champion, 4-time All-Conference (400m-hurdles, 100m-hurdles))
S – Mari Kong, Liberty (5-time All-Conference (200m, 100m))
S – Angie Lanier, Winthrop (Champion, 3-time All-Conference (100m))
S – Holly Mays-Deem, Liberty (7-time Champion, 10-time All-Conference (100m-hurdle,s 400m-hurdles, 400m))
S – Kareshia Pridleau, Winthrop (2-time Champion, 5-time All-Conference (100m, 200m, 400m))
S – Jaquay Reid, Liberty (Champion, 3-time All-Conference (400m))
S – Ardra Samuel, Liberty (6-time Champion, 6-time All-Conference (100m, 200m))
D – Mandy Becker, UNC Asheville (Champion, 4-time All-Conference (800m, 1,500m, 5,000m))
D – Catherine Conder, Coastal Carolina (2-time Champion, 3-time All-Conference (1,500m, 3,000m), Big South Hall of Fame member)
D – Angela Murphy, Coastal Carolina (4-time Champion, 5-time All-Conference (800m, 1,500m))
D – Lauri Occhipinti, Coastal Carolina (2-time Champion, 7-time All-Conference (3,000m, 5,000m))
D – Emily Olinger, UNC Asheville (3-time Champion, 6-time All-Conference (5,000m, 3,000m, 10,000m))
D – Amy Teer, Liberty (2-time Champion, 4-time All-Conference (800m, 1,500m))
D – Becky Vonderhaar, UNC Asheville (6-time Champion, 7-time All-Conference (10,000m, 5,000m))
D – Jolene Williams, Coastal Carolina (All-American, 2-time Champion, 3-time All-Conference (1,500m), Big South Hall of Fame member)
J – Tosha Ansley, Charleston Southern (Champion, 5-time All-Conference (long jump, triple jump))
J – April Cook, Coastal Carolina (Champion, 3-time All-Conference (high jump))
J – Anna-Kate Jarman, Liberty (6-time Champion, 9-time All-Conference (triple jump, high jump, long jump))
J – Amy Sturgill, Liberty (2-time Champion, 3-time All-Conference (triple jump))
T – Antoinette Beeks, Charleston Southern (Champion, 2-time All-Conference (discus))
T – Krista Davis, Charleston Southern (2-time Champion, 4-time All-Conference (discus, shot put))
T – Mari Kong, Liberty Champion, (4-time All-Conference (javelin))
T – Brenda Montgomery, Charleston Southern (2-time Champion, 3-time All-Conference (discus, shot put))
T – Amy Rodriguez, Liberty (4-time Champion, 9-time All-Conference (shot put, discus, hammer))
T – Jeanette Sayers, Charleston Southern (2-time Champion, 2-time All-Conference (javelin))

Head Coach, School (Notes)
Brant Tolsma, Liberty (6 Championships [1994-95-96-97-98-99], 5-time Coach of the Year)

2000-09 WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD ALL-DECADE TEAM
Event – Name, School (Notes)
S – Ebony Brown, Coastal Carolina (2-time Champion, 7-time All-Conference (400m-hurdles, 400m, 100m-hurdles))
S – Ikeiylah Brown, Coastal Carolina (2-time Champion, 6-time All-Conference (200m, 100m, 400m))
S – Dionne Gibson, Charleston Southern (All-American, 5-time Champion, 6-time All-Conference (200m, 400m, 100m))
S – Octavia Goode, Winthrop (7-time Champion, 8-time All-Conference (100m, 200m))
S – Tonya Harling, Winthrop (2-time Champion, 5-time All-Conference (200m, 100m))
S – Danielle McNaney, Liberty (5-time Champion, 8-time All-Conference (100m-hurdles, 400m-hurdles))
S – Panthera Seymour, Liberty (3-time Champion, 5-time All-Conference (200m, 100m))
S – Robin Williams, Liberty (4-time Champion, 8-time All-Conference (400m-hurdles, 100m-hurdles))
D – Carlajane Costantini, Charleston Southern (Champion, 2-time All-Conference (3,000m))
D – Carol Jefferson, Liberty (4-time Champion, 6-time All-Conference (5,000m, 10,000m))
D – Diana Jepchirchir, Coastal Carolina (2-time Champion, 4-time All-Conference (5,000m, 10,000m))
D – Lindsey Kozlowski, Coastal Carolina (2-time Champion, 6-time All-Conference (3,000m Steeplechase, 10,000m))
D – Anne Marie Moutsinga, Coastal Carolina (5-time Champion, 10-time All-Conference (1,500m, 5,000m, 10,000m, 3,000m))
D – Ashley Osborne, Liberty (2-time Champion, 6-time All-Conference (10,000m, 5,000m, 1,500m))
D – Rebekah Ricksecker, Liberty (3-time Champion, 5-time All-Conference (1,500m, 800m))
D – Heather Sagan, Liberty (All-American, 6-time Champion, 9-time All-Conference (800m, 1,500m, 5,000m))
J – Kena Butts, Liberty (3-time Champion, 5-time All-Conference (high jump, long jump))
J – Shemelia Brandon, Radford (4-time Champion, 7-time All-Conference (triple jump, long jump))
J – Chasity Johnson, Coastal Carolina (7-time Champion, 9-time All-Conference (long jump, triple jump, high jump))
J – Denise Morgan, High Point (3-time Champion, 4-time All-Conference (long jump, triple jump))
J – Courtney Samuel, Coastal Carolina (5-time Champion, 9-time All-Conference (triple jump, high jump, long jump))
J – Andrea Wildrick, Liberty (All-American, 3-time Champion, 4-time All-Conference (pole vault))
J – Robin Williams, Liberty (4-time Champion, 4-time All-Conference (long jump))
J – Claire Young, Coastal Carolina (2-time Champion, 2-time All-Conference (pole vault))
T – Amber Campbell, Coastal Carolina (2-time All-American, 9-time Champion, 11-time All-Conference (discus, hammer, shot put))
T – Brittany Connor, Coastal Carolina (3-time Champion, 8-time All-Conference (hammer, discus, shot put))
T – Jocelyn Davis, Charleston Southern (2-time Champion, 5-time All-Conference (hammer, shot put, discus))
T – Tiffany Evans, Radford (6-time Champion, 9-time All-Conference (hammer, shot put, discus))
T – Annette Purdy, Coastal Carolina (3-time Champion, 6-time All-Conference (hammer, javelin))
T – Brittany Reid, Coastal Carolina (2-time Champion, 5-time All-Conference (shot put, discus))
HEP – Danielle McNaney, Liberty (2-time Champion, 2-time All-Conference)
HEP – Marie Williams, Liberty (2-time Champion, 4-time All-Conference)

Head Coach, School (Notes)
Alan Connie, Coastal Carolina (5 Championships [2004-05-06-08-09], 6-time Coach of the Year)

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