Ohio Wesleyan University senior Nate Newman (Chillicothe/Zane Trace) has been named a North Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Week for the week of Feb. 26, it was announced by the NCAC.
Newman, a member of the Ohio Wesleyan men's track & field team, was named Men's Field Events Athlete of the Week.
Newman won the heptathlon championship at the NCAC multi-events meet. Newman opened Sunday's competition with an :08.55 in the 60-meter hurdles, the best time of the meet. He closed out the meet with efforts of 13-3½ in the pole vault and 3:08.06 in the 1000-meter run, both ranking second on the day. On Saturday, Newman was sixth overall in the 60-meter dash (:07.37) before turning in the second-best long jump (20-1½) and then building his lead with the meet's best efforts in the shot put (40-5) and high jump (6-2¾). It was Newman's third consecutive conference championship in the event and his fourth straight all-conference citation, following a second-place finish in 2015.
