For the third straight week, Mount Gilead graduate Allison Johnson was named Big Ten Indoor Track Athlete of the Week.
Johnson, a freshman at Penn State University, is the first Big Ten freshman to win three weekly honors over the course of an entire season, doing so as a result of her performances in the first three indoor track meets of her collegiate career. Her three consecutive awards tie a conference record.
She received this award for winning the 800-meter run in the recent Sykes & Sabock Challenge. Her time was 2:04.03, which currently is the fastest 800 time recorded in the NCAA this year. It also is second overall in Penn State history behind Danae Rivers’ 2019 time of 2:02.94.
Currently, Johnson has the top NCAA time in the 800 and 1000 and the 17th fastest in the mile. In Penn State history, she ranks second in all three events.