NEW ORLEANS – Indiana State Cross Country and Track and Field Program Director and Head Coach Angela Martin was selected as the 2024 USTFCCCA Great Lakes Region Men's Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year, as announced Friday by the organization.
 
Martin was tabbed the region's coach of the year for the second straight season, and has led the Sycamores to new heights in the last three years. She also swept the MVC Track and Field Coach of the Year awards for both indoor and outdoor season in 2024. Indiana State has won each of the last three MVC Men's Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Championships, with the Sycamores setting program records for points scored at both 2024 championships.
 
Indiana State finished with a program record 221.5 points on the men's side, marking the first time in program history that the Trees surpassed the 200-point mark at a conference championship. The Sycamores had eight individual conference champions and 17 all-conference honorees on the men's side as part of a dominant performance at the Gibson Track and Field Complex.
 
The Sycamores also qualified double-digit entries for the NCAA East First Round for the third straight year, marking Indiana State's best three-year stretch in over a decade. Elias Foor reached the NCAA Outdoor National Championships in the discus throw, where he earned Second Team All-America honors.
 
As a team, Indiana State had 18 men's top-10 marks set during the 2024 outdoor season. The Sycamores also had a pair of men's program records broken this outdoor season, Will Staggs (pole vault) and the 4x100m relay team of Casey Hood Jr., Daunte Majors, Isiah Thomas and Tahj Johnson climbing to the top of the program charts.
 
Indiana State also racked up multiple specialty awards this season. Elias Foor was named the MVC Most Valuable Athlete at the MVC Outdoor Championships after scoring in all four throws events, including three podium finishes, to rack up 26 points. Jake Ottersbach was named MVC Freshman of the Year after becoming the first Sycamore since 2001 to win the decathlon.
 
Friday's announcement marks Martin's fourth USTFCCCA Great Lakes Region Coach of the Year honor (2023 women's outdoor, 2022 women's indoor, 2023 men's outdoor, 2024 men's outdoor).
 
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