University of Minnesota Athletics
Bingle, Miller Honored with Regional Awards
6/1/2018 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track & Field
USTFCCCA Regional Award Recipients
MINNEAPOLIS – Two University of Minnesota women's track & field coaches have been honored as 2018 USTFCCCA NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Region Award winners, the USTFCCCA announced Friday. Coaches Matt Bingle and Peter Miller repeated as award recipients after earning awards during the 2018 indoor season as well.
Director of women's track & field and cross country Matt Bingle has picked up his second-straight Midwest Region Women's Coach of the Year after leading the Gophers to the 2018 Big Ten Conference outdoor title. Bingle was also named the B1G Outdoor Coach of the Year as the Gophers swept the conference team championships for the first time in program history.
This season, Bingle coached the Gophers to Minnesota's third outdoor and seventh overall Big Ten Conference title. The Maroon & Gold never trailed in the team race at this year's B1G outdoor championship, including holding an insurmountable 12-point lead heading into the 4x400m relay. Minnesota has 14 NCAA Championship qualifiers, the most in program history and the third-most among all NCAA women's teams. Bingle's Gophers have improved upon 10 outdoor program records this season.
The 2017-18 season marks Bingle's seventh season as director of women's track & field and cross country at the University of Minnesota. Bingle has been with the Gophers since October 2002 and became the first person to hold the title of director of women's track & field and cross country at the 'U' in October 2011.
Assistant coach Peter Miller, who coaches the Gophers' throwers and high jumpers while assisting with the multi-events, has been honored as the Midwest Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year after receiving the same award during the 2018 indoor season. Miller's athletes scored 54 points in throws, high jump, and combined events to lead Minnesota to the Big Ten outdoor title while coaching individual Big Ten champions in hammer and javelin.
In his fifth year at Minnesota, Miller 's athletes led the USTFCCCA Event Squad rankings in hammer throw and ranked second in both shot put and heptathlon. His athletes secured 11 entries into the NCAA West Prelim, and Miller will coach seven individuals at the NCAA Championship. Miller's athletes set program records in shot put, discus, and hammer along with setting new Big Ten all-time and championship records in hammer throw.
Fourteen Gophers are slated to compete in 11 different events at next week's NCAA Championship, including two qualifiers each in the 400m (Emerald Egwim, Titania Markland), high jump (Heta Tuuri, Ashley Ramacher), and hammer throw (Temi Ogunrinde, Nayoka Clunis). Three individuals are set to compete in two events: Emma Spagnola (100m hurdles, 400m hurdles), Egwim (400m, 4x400m relay), and Markland (400m, 4x400m relay), and the Maroon & Gold will have 14 total entries at the meet.
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