USTFCCCA award winners

Ewing, NJ … The United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced The College of New Jersey's Kyle Gilroy (Oak Ridge, NJ/West Milford Twp.) was named Men's Track Athlete of the Year in the Atlantic Region.

Head coach Phil Jennings earned Women's Head Coach of the Year honors and assistant coach Justin Lindsey was named Women's Assistant Coach of the Year in the Atlantic Region.

Gilroy will compete in four events at the 2010 NCAA Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships this week. He'll run the 110- and 400-meter hurdle events as well as the 4x100 and 4x400 relay races. Gilroy currently has the third-best posting in the country in the 110 hurdles in 2010 at 14.39 seconds and the 11th-best time in 400 hurdles at 53.06. The junior hurdler was named the Outstanding Male Track Athlete at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships earlier this spring.

Jennings led the women's team to their 18th consecutive conference title. A distance specialist, Jennings will take 10 female athletes to the NCAA championships this week.

Lindsey has had a tremendous impact on the sprinters and hurdlers at TCNJ. Both of the women's sprint relay teams have qualified for the NCAA championships, and in winning the NJAC title, the sprinters accounted for 121 of the Lions' 219 points.