Weaver wins first region title as
team hopes for triple crown
Josh Dernosek Sports Major Beat
Jacque Lenz | The Appalachian
Appalachian State running sports
coach John Weaver was named Southeast Region Men’s Indoor
Coach of the Year.
The United States Track Coaches
Association has named Appalachian State University head coach John
Weaver the Southeast Region Men’s Indoor Coach of the Year.
Weaver is one of nine regional winners named by
the collegiate coaching association in both men’s and women’s
indoor track and field.
“This is an acknowledgement for a deserving
individual and will bring recognition to not only the track program
but the school as well,” Athletic Director Roachel Laney said.
Weaver is the director
of both track and field and cross country at Appalachian for both
the men’s and women’s programs.
This is his fifth season as men’s track coach and 20th as women’s
track and cross-country coach.
“I was pretty excited,” Weaver said. “It’s a
big honor especially when voted on by your peers. The region includes
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia,
and out of that I think I might have been the only coach in the
region to win the conference championship so that helped me I’m
sure.”
Weaver has been named Southern Conference Coach of the Year 17 times
in track and four times for cross country. This is his first region
coach of the year award.
The track team has completed two parts of the triple crown by sweeping
the men’s and women’s cross country and indoor titles.
Now they set their sites on the outdoor title in the conference
championships to be held in Boone on April 18 and 19.
“I’m proud of the team; they’ve done well,”
Weaver said. “A clean sweep of the outdoor and triple crown
will hopefully mean as much to them as I want it to.”
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