he Old Dominion Athletic Conference bestowed a pair of major awards on University of Lynchburg’s outdoor track & field team, the ODAC office announced Friday evening with its full slate of conference awards.
Graduate student Stephanie Burnett won her second-consecutive women’s ODAC/Virginia Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete award in the outdoor arena, and the league’s coaches voted director of track & field and cross country Jim Sprecher the 2022 men’s outdoor coach of the year.
Burnett, a Midlothian native pursuing her master’s in business administration at Lynchburg, swept the league’s 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter championships for a second-straight year, and she also dazzled in the classroom. She carries a perfect 4.0 GPA in graduate work after graduating from Lynchburg in 2021 with a degree in management and a 3.95 GPA. A Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representative and the College of Business’ outstanding senior, Burnett is a three-time NCAA national qualifier, twice in cross country and this past winter in indoor track & field (5,000m).
Sprecher guided the Hornet men to a second-consecutive ODAC outdoor championship this spring, seeing Lynchburg’s team to six event championships and a league-best 17 all-conference awards.
The Lynchburg men and women piled up 45 All-ODAC honors, by far the most of any program in the league.
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