The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Ashtin Zamzow named to The Bowerman Women’s Mid-Outdoor Watch List
04.17.2019 | Track & Field / Cross Country
Longhorn heptathlete is among 10 national track and field standouts on watch list for prestigious award.
AUSTIN, Texas — University of Texas senior heptathlete Ashtin Zamzow is among 10 national track and field standouts named to The Bowerman Women's Mid-Outdoor Watch List, the award announced Wednesday. Zamzow is the only multi-event performer on the watch list and is seeking to become the Longhorns second winner of the prestigious Track & Field honor, joining Courtney Okolo in 2016.
The Bowerman, which debuted in 2009 and is named after former University of Oregon coach Bill Bowerman, is presented annually by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) to the nation's most outstanding male and female NCAA track and field athletes.
Zamzow earned Big 12 Women's Track & Field Athlete of the Week after breaking her own Texas school record in the heptathlon at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays earlier this year. At that meet, she turned in personal-best performances in six of the seven events and broke her own school record by more than 300 points with 6,148 points over the two-day event. She also became the first-ever Longhorn to win the Texas Relays heptathlon title. Zamzow's point total was the fourth-highest in meet history as well as the seventh-best score ever by a U.S. collegian, 12th-best in NCAA history and No. 25 on the United States all-time list. That mark ranks No. 2 in the world this year, trailing only Cuba's Adriana Rodriguez (6,293 points). The Goliad, Texas native is the first Longhorn to earn Big 12 Outdoor Track & Field Athlete of the Week honors this season.
A USTFCCCA Second-Team All-American in the heptathlon in 2018, Zamzow set a UT record with 4,294 points in finishing third in the pentathlon at this year's NCAA Indoor Championship. She is a two-time Big 12 indoor pentathlon champion and has posted the top five outdoor heptathlon scores and top three indoor pentathlon point totals in UT history.
Zamzow joined a group of elite performers that includes Chanel Brissett (USC), Olivia Gruver (Washington), Jessica Hull (Oregon), Lexi Jacobus (Arkansas), Mackenzie Little (Stanford), Alicia Monson (Wisconsin), Danae Rivers (Penn State), Kaelin Roberts (USC) and Kayla White (North Carolina A&T). The next Bowerman Women's Watch List will be released on May 1st.
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