The Top 10 of 2016-17: Women's track
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GoldandBlack.com is running down its top 10 stories of the past year in Purdue athletics, a particularly loaded year.
#6 — WOMEN'S TRACK WINS THE BIG TEN
In what was a multi-championship year for Purdue's athletic department, the women's track and field team claimed its first conference title this spring to cap the outdoor season.
Led by Outdoor Track Athlete-of-the-Year Devynn Charlton — she was also Indoor Athlete-of-the-Year and Big Ten Track Athlete-of-the-Year for the season — the Boilermakers finished with 133 points at the conference championship meet at Penn State, well ahead of second-place Minnesota (105.5) and the host Nittany Lions (101).
Charlton won the 100-meter dash and 100-meter hurdles and was part of the title-winning Purdue 4x100 relay team.
Teammate Symone Black won the 400-meter hurdles, while Savannah Carson won the long jump, in addition to a few runner-up finishes for Boilermaker athletes.
It was the third Big Ten title in women's track and field history at Purdue and secured Big Ten Coach-of-the-Year honors, as well, for Lonnie Greene.
— Brian Neubert
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