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ERAU Track & Field Sweeps PBC Weekly Honors

MARTINEZ, Ga. – Four members of the Embry-Riddle men's and women's track and field teams were named Athletes of the Week by the Peach Belt Conference on Monday. Ukeyvia Beckwith and Brendon Shea were named Track Athletes of the Week, while Mikaela Miles and Ryan Flournoy earned Field Athlete of the Week honors. The awards were based on the athlete's performances over the last three weeks.
 
At the UNF East Coast Relays on April 29, Shea finished second in the Steeplechase in 9:12.95. That time was a personal best for the junior from Hershey, Pennsylvania, and was the second fastest in ERAU history and the fastest in the Peach Belt this season.
 
Flournoy (Orlando, Fla.) turned in the second-best javelin performance of his career at the UNF East Coast Relays. Flournoy, who broke the PBC record earlier this season, finished second at UNF with a throw of 63.37. He followed that with a 62.83m third-place finish at the Lee University Last Chance meet on May 13.
 
Beckwith earned her third Athlete of the Week honor of the year on Monday after posting back-to-back personal best performances in the 800m. The Orlando, Florida graduate student finished fourth at the UNF East Coast Relays in a time of 2:04.84 and followed that by topping the podium with a time of 2:04.59 at the Lee University Last Chance meet. The time she posted at Lee is a PBC record and is the fastest time run in NCAA II this season. Beckwith also anchored the 4x400m relay team that earned a win in an ERAU-record and NCAA provisional qualifying time of 3:44.77 at Lee.
 
Monday's award was the second weekly honor for Miles who is a freshman from San Diego, California. Miles, who broke the ERAU triple jump record earlier this season, bettered that mark with a 12.14m leap at UNF, which is the longest triple jump in the conference this season by nearly a full meter. She also won the triple jump at the PURE Athletics Spring Elite Meet on Sunday with a mark of 11.97m
 
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