Chloe Wellings of Radford University is the Big South Conference’s track athlete of the year.
Radford University senior Chloe Wellings (Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K.) has been voted the 2023-24 Big South Conference Women’s Track Athlete of the Year, respectively, while Charleston Southern junior Chloe Greene (South Kingstown, R.I.) has been selected the league’s 2023-24 Women’s Field Athlete of the Year, it was announced today by the Conference office.
The awards are voted on by the Big South track & field head coaches as part of their annual June meeting, and encompass both the indoor track & field and outdoor track & field seasons.
Wellings was the Big South Champion in the Indoor 3,000m and 5,000m, as well as the Outdoor 5,000m and 10,000m — becoming just the second women’s student-athlete in Big South history to sweep the four events in the same year.
Her winning time of 34:39.29 in the Outdoor 10,000m established a Championship Meet record, and she repeated as the 5,000m champion with her time of 16:47.59. During the outdoor season, Wellings also won the App State Open 10,000m and the Charlotte 49er Classic 5,000m, and set PRs in the 5,000m at the Virginia Challenge (16:22.23) as well as the 10,000m at the Raleigh Relays (34:10.32).
Both efforts rank fourth in Big South history. In the indoor campaign, Wellings became the first Highlander to win the Big South 5,000m championship (16:58.06), and was Radford’s first winner in the 3,000m since 2014 with her 9:33.72 performance. She won the 3,000m (9:42.97) at the VMI Invitational in January, and established PRs in the mile (4:55.44) and 3,000m (9:32.06) at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational in February — with her 3,000m time the second-fastest in the conference record book.
Greene was the Most Valuable Athlete at both the Big South Indoor Championship (22 points) and Outdoor Championship (31 points) in 2024. She was the Pentathlon champion and finished third in the long jump, in addition to scoring in the triple jump and high jump. Greene won medals in the outdoor long jump (second) and high jump (third), and scored in the 100m Hurdles, javelin and triple jump.
She concluded the outdoor season in the javelin at the NCAA East First Round and qualified for the event with a PR of 46.34m at the Charleston Southern Last Chance Qualifier (seventh-best performance in Big South history). At the Big South Outdoor Championships, Greene set PRs in the 100mH (13.95), long jump (5.99m — 10th all-time in league annals) and triple jump (11.17m).
Her outdoor season included wins in the long jump and javelin at the Charleston Southern Invitational in March. During the indoor campaign, Greene won the Big South Pentathlon with a score of 3506 — one point shy of her own school record. She finished third in the long jump with a PR leap of 5.75m, which is tied for fourth in school history.
Greene also recorded a personal-best in the triple jump with a leap of 11.12m to take sixth. Her points at the Big South Indoor Championships helped the Buccaneers claim second-place to mark the highest finish in program history with a program-record 157 points.
In February, Greene was part of CSU’s winning DMR team at the South Carolina Invitational, as the relay squad turned in a school-record 11:46.26 — the third-fastest in Big South history. She also set a school record in the 600m with a time of 1:36.99 at the Gamecock Opener in January (9th in Big South history) and was part of the 4x400m relay squad at the USC Indoor Open in February that took second overall at 3:48.65.
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