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ABILENE, Texas – Another year. Another award for McMurry head coach Barbara Crousen and a male athlete. Crousen along with sophomore Kevin Cunningham were honored by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Tuesday.

Crousen was named the South/Southeast Region Male Coach of the Year while Cunningham was named South/Southeast Region Male Track Athlete of the year. For Crousen, the 13th-year head coach, it was her eighth selection as the region's Coach of the Year on the men's side.

Cunningham becomes the 14th McMurry athlete, male and female, to be named as the USTFCCCA regional athlete of the year. The junior from Brownwood leads the NCAA Division III in the 400-meter hurdles race with a time of 51.49 seconds and was the Male Track Athlete of the Year at the American Southwest Conference championships. Cunningham will compete in the 400-meter hurdles and in both of McMurry's relays entering into the national meet in Delaware, Ohio beginning Thursday.

Crousen's War Hawks have been ranked No. 1 by the USTFCCCA National Rankings all seven times heading into the national meet. In addition to her head-coaching duties, she coaches sprints and hurdles and help guide her 4X100-meter relay team to the top seed in the country and will send 12 entries into this weekend's national meet.

-Courtesy McMurry University Sports Information Department