Brown Earns Patriot League Honors

Brown Earns Patriot League Honors

January 23, 2018 | Women's Track and Field

WEST POINT, N.Y. - Senior Briyah Brown of the Army West Point women's track and field team has earned Patriot League Field Athlete of the Week honors.

This honor comes after Brown's remarkable performance at the Penn 8-Team Select on Saturday, Jan.20, where she claimed first place in both the shot put and weight throw.

In the shot put, Brown threw for a distance of 14.68m, which was an ECAC qualifying distance. In the weight throw, she threw for as distance of 18.61m, also an ECAC qualifying distance, and a personal record for the New Rochelle, N.Y., native. This distance also broke the school record of 17.99m set by Heather Lawson at the Army-Navy Star meet in 1999.

She leads the Patriot League in both events, and is ranked 48th in shot put and 53rd in the weight throw in NCAA Division I, respectively. This marks her second Athletic Female Field Athlete of the Week honor this season.