University of Tennessee Athletics
Three earn SEC All-Freshman honors
March 26, 2008 | Men's Track
Three members of the Tennessee men???s track and field team were named to the inaugural SEC All-Freshman Indoor Track and Field team, the conference announced Wednesday.
Joseph Berry led the Tennessee contingent with his second-place finish in the pole vault at the SEC Indoor Championships. The Horsham, Pa., native cleared a personal-best height of 16-10 3/4 and finished behind teammate and four-time SEC champion Michael Hogue to give the Vols a clean sweep of the top-two positions.
Michael Ayers finished third in the heptathlon, behind victorious teammate Jangy Addy, with a personal-best score of 5,286 points to help the Vols claim two of the top-three finishes. Ayers, a Nashville native, moved to 10th on Tennessee???s all-time performance list in the event and earned a personal-best mark in five of the seven events contested.
Axel Mostrag was sixth in the 800 at the conference championship meet with his personal-best clocking of 1:50.25 and was one of three Vols to score in the event. The Krasnik, Poland, native recorded the fastest freshman time in the conference and sixth-fastest 800 time by a freshman in the nation.
The SEC All-Freshman team is made up of the top freshman finishers in each event from the SEC Indoor Championships, held Feb. 29-March 2 in Fayetteville, Ark. Tennessee???s three selections trail only Kentucky and South Carolina, both of which had four All-Freshman honorees.
All three of Tennessee???s All-Freshman performers will be in action this weekend with the rest of the third-ranked Vols at the Yellow Jacket Invitational in Atlanta.
