FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas distance runner Dominique Scott has been named one of 10 semifinalists for The Bowerman, the top individual award in college track & field.
Scott, a senior, won the 5,000 and 10,000 meter races last weekend at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore., and became the first individual to win both events at the NCAA meet since 2010.
The Bowerman is presented to the top male and female athlete in indoors and outdoors track & field. Scott did not run indoors this year because she was out of eligibility in that sport.
Arkansas sprinter and long jumper Jarrion Lawson is expected to be on the men's semifinalist list when it is released Thursday. Lawson won the long jump, 100 and 200 meter races at the NCAA meet, and ran the second leg of Arkansas' third-place 400 meter relay team.
Lawson's 31.5 points were the second-most ever at the NCAA meet and most since Jesse Owens scored 40 points in 1936. Lawson, a senior, was also the NCAA long jump champion indoors this year.
The Bowerman will be presented in December during the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association convention in Orlando. No Arkansas athlete has ever won the award.