UNT Lands Record Nine on All-Conference

DENTON – North Texas track and field garnered nine all-conference accolades at the 2021 Conference USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, the highest-ever C-USA award total for the Mean Green.

The previous high was a combined eight all-conference nods at the 2019 Championships.

Zion Hill was represented on the First Team with his UNT record-setting javelin throw of 74.09 meters and remains just the second Mean Green to become an event champion. Hill also won the title in 2019 and joins Clifton Collins in the record books who ran to the 400-meter title in 2014.

The North Texas men placed three on the Second Team. Karlington Anunagba was the runner-up in the 100 with a time of 10.32 seconds, while Davonye Jones came in second in the 200 in a career-best time of 20.80 seconds. Michael Gonzalez tied for second in pole vault with a career-best height of 5.26 meters. Anunagba and Jones are the first all-conference selections for UNT in both the 100 and 200, respectively.

Haley Walker was also recognized on the Second Team for her mark of 48.71 meters in discus, the first North Texas thrower to collect conference honors in women's discus. Walker is now a two-time outdoor all-conference honoree as she was Second Team in hammer in 2019.

Jaleisa Shaffer added a pair of Third Team honors with her personal-record performance in discus at 48.66 meters and in shot put with a mark of 15.59. Shaffer was a Second Team recipient in shot put in 2019. The 4x100 relay team of Monica Johnson, Lyric Choice, Macy Burnham and Aneesa Scott racked up a Third Team distinction with a time of 45.53 seconds, the second time in history UNT the 4x100 squad has been honored. In 2016, the relay team was named to the Second Team.

Jones also earned a place on the Third Team with a 10.41-seconds showing in the 100.

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Karlington Anunagba

Macy Burnham

Lyric Choice

Michael Gonzalez

Zion Hill

Monica Johnson

Davonye Jones

Aneesa Scott

Jaleisa Shaffer

Haley Walker

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