BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- For the second-straight week the WKU Track and Field program has had two athletes honored by Conference USA as the league named Emmanuel Dasor its Male Track Athlete of the Week and Carrol Hardy its Co-Female Track Athlete of the Week on Tuesday afternoon.
The sophomore sprinters turned in two of the top times in the NCAA this season and etched their names into the WKU record books with their winning performances at the Commodore Indoor Invitational last weekend in Nashville.
Dasor's clocking of 47.29 seconds on his way to victory in the 400-meter dash was the sixth-fastest time in the NCAA this indoor season, leads Conference USA and ranks fifth all-time in WKU's rich sprinting history. The Ghana native, who was a member of WKU's 4X400-meter All-American relay in 2014, also anchored the Hilltoppers' 4x4 to the top time in C-USA this season (3:11.01) as it beat out Mississippi State in a tight race.
Hardy tied her own school record in the 60-meter dash with a winning time of 7.41 seconds, which bested the field by .29 seconds in the short sprint. Her clocking ranks 22nd in the nation this season and equaled her program record she set at last year's Sun Belt Conference Indoor Championships.
Dasor and Hardy join WKU sophomore athlete Ventavius Sears and senior pole vaulter Karleigh Parker as C-USA weekly honorees this season. Their selections give WKU 31 player of the week honorees for the athletic program as a whole in 2014-15, which leads Conference USA as of Tuesday.
Both Dasor and Hardy return to action with their Hilltopper and Lady Topper squads this weekend in Nashville at the Vanderbilt Indoor Invitational. For more information on WKU Track and Field, follow the programs on Twitter at @WKUTrackField.