Razorbacks claim 2021-22 Program of the Year honor

NEW ORLEANS – For the primary time in program historical past Arkansas girls’s monitor and subject earned USTFCCCA’s Terry Crawford Girls’s Division I Program of the 12 months award.

The celebrated accolade, awarded since 2009, acknowledges the highest program for the 2021-22 season based mostly on crew outcomes throughout the NCAA cross nation, indoor and outside monitor and subject championships.

“The icing on the cake is program of the 12 months, which is the cumulation of exhausting work, self-discipline, and nationwide championship performances all through all three seasons,” famous Arkansas girls’s head coach Lance Harter. “One among our crew targets, total, by the 12 months, with cross nation, indoor and outside seasons, is to be program of the 12 months.

“We all the time need to make the rostrum (high 4) and we missed it by some extent this 12 months at NCAA Out of doors. Our youngsters did a improbable job, although, as we walked away with 10 athletes who had been first-team All-America.”

This 12 months Arkansas bettered BYU by 1.5 factors for the award, 18 to 19.5. Final season the Cougars claimed the honour with an 18 to 26 benefit over the Razorbacks.

Arkansas totaled 18 factors this season as they positioned eighth in NCAA Cross Nation, fourth at NCAA Indoor, and sixth at NCAA Out of doors. BYU completed second in cross nation, eighth indoors and tied for ninth outdoor.

The highest 5 packages included Colorado (25.5), NC State (27.5), and Ole Miss (36).

“BYU gained it final 12 months they usually have a improbable crew and program,” said Harter. “We’ve completed both second or third usually. Now, lastly, we get an opportunity to be on high of the rung.”

Previous to claiming the Program of the 12 months honor this season, the Razorbacks had been runner-up 3 times (2020-21, 2015-16, 2014-15) and completed third on 4 events (2018-19, 2016-17, 2013-14, 2012-13).

“Our males’s crew has gained the John McDonnell Males’s Program of the 12 months just a few instances, and on the ladies’s aspect we’ve all the time wished to emulate that,” stated Harter. “So, we’re tremendous excited that lastly got here true.

“I’ve been at this enterprise a very long time, and this can be a very particular second in my very own private profession however particularly for the College of Arkansas.”

Arkansas turns into simply the fourth girls’s program to attain the accolade following Oregon (10 instances), Stanford, and BYU.