Barton's Young and Mosley earn weekly track and field honors #GoBarton

Posting big performances in two different states this past weekend, two Barton Community College men's track and field team members have garnered weekly honors.

Christopher Young topped the week honors in being named the NJCAA Men's Indoor Athlete of the Week, being joined by Elijah Mosley giving Barton a sweep of the Week 3 KJCCC men's awards.

The team competed in two different meets, Young at Friday's Jayhawk Classic Invitational in Lawrence while Mosley was down south in Lubbock, Texas, at the Texas Tech Open and Multis.

For the second straight week, Young assaulted the program's all-time shot put list in moving up from the seventh all-time slot to a 4th best ever 18.07m (59-03.50) heave to place second overall at Friday's meet. Less than two feet behind in 3rd place, Christopher Crawford jumped into the program's 7th spot uncorking a 17.60m (57-09.00) throw.

The pair battled it out in the afternoon's weight throw, Young just a foot ahead in joining Crawford and Brandon Lloyd as national qualifiers with a personal best 15.62m (51-03.00) for 4th place while Crawford took 5th at 15.26m (50.00.75).

At the two-day Texas Tech Open, Mosley began his weekend in Friday's 400m, burning the oval to a 3rd place time of 46.98, moving up two slots on the program's all-time list into the 6th fastest all-time clocking. Returning to the track on Saturday, the sophomore not only took 6th place in the 34-competitor 800m field but in his first time collegiately running the indoor event, clocked a program 5th fastest time of 1:51.18.

Young and Mosley's awards are the third for the Cougars this season in following Lloyd's week two honor.

The Cougars next head to Topeka on Friday competing in the two-day Washburn Open and Multis.