The App State women's track and field team capped competition at the Sun Belt Indoor Championships on Tuesday with a podium finish in the women's triple jump an
Camryn Newton-Smith & Jermie Walker earn Sun Belt weekly honors By Caleb Garner - Arkansas State Athletics | January 28, 2021 at 2:00 PM CST - Updated January 28 at 2:00 PM
After a strong start to the 2020-21 indoor track and field season, Arkansas Stateâs Jermie Walker and Camryn Newton-Smith garnered Sun Belt Conference Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Week honors on Thursday.
Newton-Smith was named Womenâs Field Athlete of the Week, while Walker was tabbed Menâs Track Athlete of the Week in the leagueâs first weekly honors of the season.
The All-American pentathlete Newton-Smith earned her second career weekly honor after posting a strong first pentathlon of the year, totaling 4,068 points to win at the Samford Multis on Jan. 21. That mark currently ranks second in the NCAA and was three shy of matching her school-record mark of 4,071 set at the 2020 Sun Belt Indoor Championships. She claimed three of the five events at Samford, including the 60m h