BOCA RATON, Fla. – Natalliah Whyte of the Florida Atlantic University track and field team can once again add to her accolades from this season, this time adding Conference USA Female Track Athlete of the Year to her belt.
The award was given out for the entire 2019 track and field season, including both indoor and outdoor competition.
Earlier this week Whyte was named a U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Second Team All-American, the first All-American in program history. She was given the award after qualifying for the NCAA Championship Semifinals in the 100 meter dash in Austin, Texas which was also a first for the program. Whyte won gold in the 100 meter at the C-USA Championship after setting a facility record for the Irwin Bell Track in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her time of 11.16 in the NCAA East Regionals set a new school record and she previously broke the school record in the 200 meter dash during the regular season.
During the indoor season, Whyte claimed first in the 60 and 100 meter dashes at the C-USA Championships in Birmingham, Alabama and set school records in both categories along the way. She was named the Championship’s Highest Point Earner and was later voted the Performer of the Meet by the C-USA coaches.
This summer the St. Catherine, Jamaica native will turn her sites on the goal of making the Jamaican National Team in hopes of competing for her home country in the IAFF World Championships in the fall. She’ll be competing in Jamaica’s National Championships during the summer months.
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Florida Atlantic University Athletics:
FAU Athletics is comprised of 21 intercollegiate teams involving 450 student-athletes that compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, beach volleyball, cheer and dance. The Owls are a NCAA Division I-A (FBS) institution and compete in Conference USA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) (beach volleyball, men’s swimming). The Owls have been playing football since 2001 and are a perfect 3-0 in bowl games, the most recent being a 50-3 victory over Akron in the 2017 CheriBundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The dance team finished its 2014 season No. 8, nationally. FAU cheer won a national championship in 2016.
About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
