30 2011 REVIEW based off her showings in the 100m and 200m BINGSON NAMED 2011 SPORTSWOMAN races. Blok was also a member on the 4x100m DUO EARNS ACADEMIC AWARD UNLV's track & field standout Amanda Bingson UNLV track & field's Kelsey Williamson and relay team and was partnered with Zadia Bryant, was named the UNLV Sportswoman of the Year Emily Blok were named to the 2011 USTFCCCA Davina Collins and Secoral Yanez for the first- for 2010-11, UNLV Athletics announced. Division I All-Academic Track & Field Team place showing. All-MWC selections are awarded announced by the organization. to the top three finishers in each event. Bingson was a junior this past school year and is from Las Vegas. She earned All-America status in Williamson (3.57, business administration) and Bingson and Cassulo finished 1-2 in the hammer the hammer throw after finishing fourth at the 2011 Blok (3.48, kinesiological sciences) are no strang- with tosses of 228-6 (69.65m) and 210-0 (64.24m), NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships ers to earning recognition for their classroom respectively. Bingson's throw was the second-best prior to competing at the USA Outdoor Track & achievements, as the Mountain West named the in MWC Outdoor Championship history and Field Championships. sophomores to the academic all-conference list for helped claim her second consecutive conference the second time in their careers. Williamson was title in the event. She also earned the Women's Bingson finished first overall at the NCAA Outdoor also been named to the MW's Scholar-Athlete Outstanding Performance award for the second Track & Field West Preliminary and owned the top Award twice, as well. straight year. distance thrown combined between the East and West Regionals. The duo were part of a contingent of 10 Rebels that Blok finished second in both the 100m (11.58) and represented UNLV at the 2011 NCAA Division I 200m (23.83) races and ran the final leg of the Bingson claimed her second consecutive title in the Outdoor Track & Field Preliminaries held at 4x100m relay team that finished in a time of 45.09. hammer throw with a toss of 228-6 (69.65m) and Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Williamson fin- This was the second year in a row that Blok was a earned all-conference honors as well as the MW's ished 40th in the 800m. Blok, on the other hand, member of the relay squad that was named to the Women's Outstanding Performance Award. She advanced to the quarterfinals in both the 100m and team. broke the UNLV program record in the hammer 200m and helped the 4x100m relay team to a 14th throw on three different occasions with the final place finish. As for Bryant, Collins and Yanez, this was the first one coming at UC Irvine's Steve Scott Invitational, time that the trio has been named to the All-MWC which saw her finish first overall and set a new team. stadium record with a toss of 229-0 (69.79m). MOUNTAIN WEST ACADEMIC AWARDS The UNLV track and field program had a banner Bingson was named the MW's Outdoor Track & year in the classroom with a program-record 17 BINGSON HAMMERS HER WAY TO THE TOP student-athletes named to the Spring 2011 Field Athlete of the Week on March 22, after set- UNLV's Amanda Bingson one-upped herself at Academic All-Mountain West list, while eight ting a new meet record at Arizona State's Baldy UC Irvine's Steve Scott Invitational with another more - tied the program high - were tabbed to the Castillo Invitational with a throw of 224-8 record-setting performance in the hammer throw. MW's Scholar-Athlete Award to tie for the pro- (68.47m). In the fall, she earned All-MW recogni- Bingson's toss of 229-0 (69.79m) topped her previ- gram's best output. Seven individuals were named tion for finishing second in the weight throw at the ous best of 224-8 (68.47m) and broke the eight- to both honors, while 11 others were included on 2010 Mountain West Indoor Track & Field year-old Anteater Stadium record by more than one of the lists. Championship. five feet. Leading the contingent of Rebels to be claim both REBELS CLAIM ALL-AMERICAN HONORS PAIR NAMED TO ALL-MWC INDOOR TEAM academic honors was LaShante Ellison (3.60, Amanda Bingson and Chelsea Cassulo finished The Mountain West Conference announced that social work), who racked up her fourth scholar- fourth and fifth, respectively, in the hammer throw Chelsea Cassulo and Amanda Bingson were athlete award and was named to her second aca- at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field named to the Women's Indoor Track and Field All- demic all-conference list. Lindsay Roach (3.59, Championships at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Conference Teams. Selections were awarded to the kinesiological sciences) was recognized for the Iowa. The duo earned All-American honors in the top three finishers in each event at the MWC third time for both honors, while Christine Lowe event by virtue of finishing in the top eight. The Indoor Championships. (3.74, hospitality management), Samantha Swan field of 24 participants competed in unsavory con- (3.81, management) and Kelsey Williamson (3.57, ditions with light rain and temperatures hovering in Cassulo, a junior from Lompoc, Calif., became the business administration) each earned their second the low 70s. first Rebel to win the weight throw event at an scholar-athlete award. As for the academic all- MWC Indoor Championship. She recorded a pro- conference honor, Lowe has now been named three Bingson and Cassulo were the first members of gram-best distance of 65-5.25 (19.87m) for the times, Williamson twice and Swan once. UNLV's track and field team to be named All- title. Her toss was the third-longest recorded in the Americans since Ashley Owens finished second in history of the conference meet and fourth-best ever Larissa Davis (3.50, sociology) and Ashley the indoor 60m race in 2006. Christine Spence was in league annals. Franklin (3.52, kinesiological sciences) were first- the last Rebel to achieve All-American status in timers chosen for both honors, while Shannon outdoor competition when she did so twice in Bingson, a junior from Las Vegas, finished second Simpson (3.67, kinesiological sciences) was named 2005, after she finished sixth in the high jump and to her teammate in the weight throw with a dis- to the scholar-athlete award. seventh in the 400m hurdles. tance of 64-7.75 (19.70m). Her effort ranks as the fourth-best in conference championship history. Deja Edwards (3.09, kinesiological sciences) joins Lowe and Roach as three-time selections to the REBELS EARN ALL-MWC HONORS academic all-conference list. Emily Blok (3.48, UNLV's Amanda Bingson was named to the All- TRACK TEAM EARNS ACADEMIC AWARD kinesiological sciences) and Brett Zorich (3.12, MWC Track and Field team for second time. The The UNLV track & field team (3.02 GPA) was kinesiological sciences) have also been selected UNLV Rebels had three individuals and its 4x100m recognized by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross multiple times for the academic all-conference relay team named to the 2011 All-Mountain West Country Coaches Association as an All-Academic honor, as it the second time for both of them. Conference Outdoor Track and Field teams today. Team. The Rebels were one of 164 programs rec- Amanda Bingson and Chelsea Cassulo were ognized by the USTFCCCA for earning a cumula- tabbed to the squad following their performances tive team GPA of 3.00 or better. in the hammer throw, while Blok was selected NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY 31 INDOOR REBEL ALL-AMERICANS Year Place Score Qualifiers Year Individual/Relay Team 1983 T-29th 4 1 1975 Beatrice Emodi, Long Jump, 3rd (19-02.00) 1984 DNP 0 0 1976 Linda Cornelius, Pentathlon, 4th 1985 T-29th 2 3 1977 4x220-Meter Relay, 3rd (1:41.80) 1986 T-38th 0 2 • Cecelia Branch, Nedra Washington, Emma Gene Major, Delores Lee Render 1987 12th 11 7 1979 Lisa Thompson, 100-Meters, 2nd (11.93) 1988 DNP 0 0 Cecelia Branch, 100-Meters Hurdles, 3rd (11.65) 1989 T-22nd 8 2 1980 Ann Crump, Pentathlon, 3rd (4,075 points) 1990 T-49th 0 4 Lanessa Jones, Long Jump, 6th (20-07.5) 1991 T-22nd 6 9 Cecelia Branch, 100-Meters Hurdles, 3rd (13.69) 1992 T-22nd 8 4 1981 Lisa Thomspson, Indoor 55M, 3rd (7.34) 1993 T-16th 8 4 1982 4x440-Meter Relay, 6th 1994 T-32nd 5 2 • Lisa Thompson, Sheila Polk, Vernicia Smith, Sonya Briscoe 1995 DNP 0 0 1983 Lisa Thompson, Indoor 60-Meters, 4th (6.88) 1996 DNP 0 0 1984 Sheila Tarr, Heptathlon, 1st (5,856 points) 1997 T-43rd 1 4 1985 Inger Peterson, Indoor 55-Meters, 5th (6.90) 1998 DNP 0 0 Sheila Tarr, Heptathlon, 2nd (56 points) ??? 1999 T-57th 1 2 4x100Meter Relay, 8th (44.70) 2000 T-60th 0 2 • Inger Peterson, Michele Matthias, Michelle Stewart, Paula Ready 2001 DNP 0 0 1987 Trena Hull, Indoor 1,000-Meters, 1st (2:41:08) 2002 T-37th 4 2 Prudance Jackson, Indoor 55-Meters Hurdles, 6th (7.87) 2003 DNP 0 0 4x100Meter Relay, 8th (45.22) 2004 DNP 0 0 • Tanya Davis, Sonji Green, Carrie Franklin, Cheryl Cheeks 2005 T-64th 1 1 1988 4x100Meter Relay, 8th (45.21) 2006 T-26th 8 1 • Gretchen Jiles, Carrie Franklin, Tanya Davis, Cheryl Cheeks 2007 DNP 0 0 1989 Maddette Smith, Indoor Long Jump, 2nd (20-10.00) 2008 DNP 0 0 4x100Meter Relay, 4th (44.34) 2009 DNP 0 0 • Carrie Franklin, Trevaia Williams, Julie Harrison, Cheryl Cheeks 2010 DNP 0 0 4x400-Meter Relay, 5th (3:34.37) 2011 DNP 0 0 • Carrie Franklin, 100-Meters, 8th (11.52) 1990 Maddette Smith, Long Jump, 6th (19-07.5) Trevaia Williams, Heptathlon, 6th (5,479 points) OUTDOOR 1991 Shunta Rose, Indoor Long Jump, 3rd (20-07.75) Year Place Score Qualifiers Trevaia Williams, Heptathlon, 3rd (5,494 points) 1983 T-64th 0 1 1992 Zundra Feagin,