D'Agostino Named 2014 National Women's Track Athlete of the Year

NEW ORLEANS – For the second straight year, Dartmouth's Abbey D'Agostino has been named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) 2014 Women's Division I Indoor National Track Athlete of the Year.

D'Agostino also claimed the honor during the 2013 indoor season and this past fall during the cross country campaign.

The Topsfield, Mass., native was recognized after accomplishing what no other woman in Division I history has ever done before: winning both 5000m and 3000m national titles in consecutive years.

D'Agostino won the distance double in 2014 for the second straight year at nationals. When she first accomplished the feat in 2013, the then-junior was just the third woman overall and the first American ever to win the two races at the same meet. When she repeated this past weekend in Albuquerque, D'Agostino moved into rarified air as the lone individual to ever double in back-to-back indoor meets.

She started the weekend by winning her sixth-career national championship, taking the 5000m in 16:20.39. The seventh title came the following evening when she claimed the 3000m win in 9:14.47. Both victories came by more than two seconds in races that featured the best runners in those events from across the country.

Her seven career titles rank as the most all-time by any Ivy League student-athlete in 131 years. Her six track titles between indoor and outdoor seasons are three times as many as any other individual in the history of the Ancient Eight.

Also adding to her resume in 2014 was a 4:28.31 in the mile, the fastest time in the nation this year. In fact, D'Agostino wrapped up the indoor season with the top times nationally in three events: the mile, the 5000m (15:40.55) and the 3000m (8:51.91). Her PRs in the mile and the 3000m rank as the third and fourth best marks all-time in each event, respectively.

At the 2014 Ivy League Heptagonal Championship in Hanover in early March, D'Agostino won three titles: the mile, the 5000m and her first-ever relay championship, helping Dartmouth take home the 4x800 crown.

This most recent award from the USTFCCCA is the 10th regional or national honor for D'Agostino in her career and comes just two weeks after being named the 2014 Northeast Region Women's Track Athlete of the Year.

The Big Green women's team finished seventh at nationals with 24 points, both program records.

Oregon's Edward Cheserek was named the Male Track Athlete of the Year after also sweeping the distance double in New Mexico. Winning the men's and women's National Field Athlete of the Year awards, respectively, were Curtis Beach of Duke and Kendell Williams of Georgia.

USTFCCCA 10-Time Regional/National Award Winner
2011 Northeast Regional Female Athlete of the Year in Cross Country
2012 National Outdoor Track Female Scholar Athlete of the Year
2012 Women's Division I Cross Country Female Scholar Athlete of the Year
2013 Division I National Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year
2013 Division I Indoor Northeast Region Women's Track Athlete of the Year
2013 Division I Outdoor Northeast Region Women's Track Athlete of the Year
Division I National Women's Track Athlete of the Week (April 23, 2013)
2013 Northeast Region Women's cross Country Athlete of the Year
2014 Northeast Region Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year
2014 Division I National Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year

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