Silcock Earns WAC Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week Honor

Utah State [University] junior Clint Silcock has been named the Verizon Western Athletic Conference Men's Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week for the week of April 12-19, it was announced Tuesday [April 20] by the conference office.

 

Silcock, a junior from Salmon, Ida. (Butte HS), won the high jump with what is currently the second-best height in the NCAA, clearing 7-05.00 (2.26 meters) as the Aggies hosted the Mark Faldmo Invitational on Saturday. Silcock's mark is a career best and WAC best, as well as the second-best in Utah State school history, behind the school record jump of 7-06.50 (2.30m) by Dave Hoffman in 2001. Hoffman was at Saturday's meet and watched Silcock's milestone jump.

 

Silcock's jump is also the third-best in the history of the WAC behind Milt Ottey of UTEP who jumped 7-6.5 (2.30m) in 1982 and Dave Stapleton of BYU who jumped 7-5.5 (2.28m) in 1983.

 

This is Silcock's second WAC honor this season after also earning the award on April 6. This is the Aggies' fourth WAC honor in five weeks. In addition to Silcock, junior thrower Joe Canavan collected the WAC Field Athlete of the Week accolade on March 23 and senior hurdler Nick Karren earned the honor last week.

 

Louisiana Tech senior Albert Fullwood earned the WAC Track honor as he ran a season-best and WAC-leading 200-meter time of 20.93 seconds at the LSU Alumni Gold in Baton Rouge, La., on Saturday.

 

Silcock and the Aggies will continue action Friday and Saturday, April 23-24, at the Cal Brutus Hamilton Invitational at Berkeley, Calif.

 

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