CANYON, Texas – West Texas A&M Track & Field continue their outdoor season this week as they travel to Austin, Texas to take part in the 98^th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays hosted at Mike A. Meyers Stadium.
 
Action begins on Wednesday with the heptathlon and decathlon. Esther Conde-Turpin competes for the Lady Buffs in the heptathlon while Fran Bonifacic and Nikolas Kosmopoulos take part in the decathlon.
 
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West Texas A&M Outdoor Provisional Marks -  Women / Men
 
THE TEXAS RELAYS
The Texas Relay began in 1925 as a men's only competition with women's events added in 1963. The Texas Relays are currently the second largest track meet in the United States, behind only the Penn Relays as 50,000 spectators and 5,000 athletes attend the events each year.
 
USTFCCCA NATIONAL ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Isaac Botsio welcomed the outdoor season by winning the 100 meters at the West Texas Relays in 10.06 (+0.8). If that sounds fast to you, that's because it is. In fact, the time has the West Texas A&M senior No. 2 all-time in the NCAA DII record books, tying his own mark from two years prior. The only man to have run faster is former Buff star Benjamin Azamati.
 
This is the third time that Botsio has been named M-F Athletic National Athlete of the Week during the outdoor season. Botsio previously earned national weekly honors on April 8 of 2024 and April 11 of 2023.
 
LSC OUTDOOR FEMALE TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Kalkidan Vincendeau ran the top 5,000-meters time in all of NCAA Division II this season with a 16:11.65 at the Raleigh Relays in Raleigh, N.C. The time is the fourth best in program history. Vincendeau competed in a field of 187 of the top runners in the country from all divisions.
 
WT DIRECTOR OF TRACK & FIELD MATT STEWART
Matt Stewart is in his ninth season leading the storied West Texas A&M Track & Field program, winning the Lone Star Conference Indoor Coach of the Year honors on both the men's and women's side this season. 
 
NCAA INDOOR REWIND
The Buffs are coming off a sixth-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Virginia Beach, scoring 23 total points as five different student-athletes earned All-American honors highlighted by Bonifacic winning the National Title in the Heptathlon.
 
The Lady Buffs finished second with 59 total points at the NCAA Championships, claiming seven All-American honors in individual events along with the pentathlon, DMR and 4x400m Relay. Akintoye won the 400m National Championships while Conde-Turpin stood atop of the podium with a new school record in the pentathlon.
 
HONORS ROLL IN
Conference and National Honors rolled in for the Buffs and Lady Buffs with the Lone Star Conference and USTFCCA announcing their annual honors following the conclusion of the indoor campaign. Matt Stewart was named the region's USTFCCCA Men's Coach of the Year while Zach Daniel claimed the Women's Regional Assistant Coach of the Year accolades.
 
Esther Conde-Turpin continued to impress as the LSC Women's Field Athlete of the Year and the USTFCCCA Regional Field Athlete of the Year. Fran Bonifacic earned LSC and USTFCCCA Men's Field honors while Blessing Akintoye was tabbed the LSC Female Indoor Track Athlete of the Year.