Green Wins Big Ten Track Athlete Of The Week

SEATTLE – Following the first week of the indoor track & field season, Husky standout Nathan Green has earned Washington’s first ever Big Ten Men’s Track Athlete of the Week award. Green ran the fastest 3,000-meters time in Big Ten Conference history last Saturday in Boston, and broke the UW School Record.
 
Green (Boise, Idaho) is coming off the best cross country season of his career, where he led UW at the NCAA Championships with a 54^th-place finish that was notable for the fact that Green ran the fastest final 1,000-meters of any man in the field, passing 38 runners.
 
Moving onto the track just two weeks after cross country nationals, Green rolled to a time of 7:40.09 at the BU Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener at the Boston University indoor track. That broke the Husky school record and ranks 13^th in NCAA history, as well as ranking as the fastest time in Big Ten history.
 
Green now owns the Husky school records at 800-meters, 1,000-meters, 1,500-meters, and 3,000-meters.
 
Big Ten Indoor Track & Field Weekly Awards:
 
Men’s Indoor Track & Field
Track Athlete of the Week: Nathan Green, Washington
Field Athlete of the Week: Ryan Henry, Penn State
Freshman of the Week: Ajani Dwyer, Penn State
 
Women’s Indoor Track & Field
Track Athlete of the Week: Silan Ayyildiz, Oregon
Field Athlete of the Week: Anthonett Nabwe, Minnesota
Freshman of the Week: Simone Cooper, Maryland