Recent Wabash College graduate
RaShawn Jones and rising senior
Josh Wiggins have been named 2020 indoor track and field All-Americans by the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Jones and Wiggins both qualified for the 2020 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships in the men's 60-meter hurdles. The championship meet was originally scheduled to take place in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in March. The meet was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Jones received indoor All-America honors for the first time. He qualified for the indoor national championship meet for the second consecutive season, but an injury prevented him from running in 2019 meet. He qualified for the 2020 championships with the sixth-fastest time among Division III runners this season. Jones ran a season-best time of 8.08 to win the individual title in the 60-meter hurdles at the 2020 North Coast Athletic Conference Championships. He has earned two fifth-place finishes at the 2018 and 2019
NCAC DIII Outdoor Track and Field Championships to claim All-America honors.
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Wiggins qualified for the 2020 national championship meet for the first time in his career. He ran a season-best time of 8.22 to finish second in the finals of the 60-meter hurdles at the conference championship meet. That time tied for 21
st on the
DIII season performance list, leaving him just outside of the top-20 times initially invited to the championships. Through the declaration process both Wiggins and Alex
Dimon from Marietta were added to the field of 20 participants competing at the meet.
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Normal USTFCCCA policies dictate that All-America honors are awarded to student-athletes who score any portion of a team point with a top-eight in the finals of an individual event or as a member of a top-eight placing relay event at the NCAA Championships. The Division III Track and Field Executive Committee, with support of the USTFCCCA Board of Directors, directed the national office to reconfigure the All-America program for the 2020 indoor season.
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