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FRISCO, Texas – Senior multis athlete Kaitlin Smith has been selected the 2022 Southland Conference Indoor Track & Field Women's Athlete of the Year by the league's coaches, announced by the league office on Monday afternoon.
 
Smith earned Most Valuable Performer honors at the 2022 SLC Indoor Championships after winning the pentathlon for the third-straight year, winning gold in the 60-meter hurdles and tying for fourth in the high jump. She finished the pentathlon with a meet record 4,118 points and earned a spot in the 2022 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships with the 11^th-best mark in the country this season. Smith also set a new meet record in the 60h, running an 8.43 in the event as part of the pentathlon.
 
She will take part in the NCAA Indoors Pentathlon as the lone representative from the Southland Conference on Friday, Mar. 11, in Birmingham, Ala. at the Birmingham Crossplex.
 
As a team, the Huskies earned all-conference honors in 10 events.
 
Kaitlin Smith – First Team (Pentathlon)
Kaitlin Smith – First Team (60-Meter Hurdles)
Jessica Rabius – First Team (800 Meter)
Jessica Rabius – Second Team (3,000 Meters)
Kemaya Linton, Ashlyn Dobson, Meike Veraasdonk, Macey Morris – Second Team (4x400 Relay)
Kemaya Linton – Third Team (400 Meter)
Scott Boon – Third Team (Pole Vault)
Scott Boon – Third Team (Long Jump)
Garrett Gibson – Third Team (60-Meter Hurdles)
Ben Drew, Mark Ngei, Travis Jacobs, Justice Artisst – Third Team (Distance Medley Relay)