Wolverine Decathlete Lint Voted Big Ten Field Athlete of the Year
6/12/2019 11:46:00 AM | Men's Track & Field
ROSEMONT, Ill. -- Decathlete Jack Lint of the University of Michigan men's track and field team was voted the Big Ten Field Athlete of the Year as the conference announced its year-end awards on Wednesday (June 12).
Lint, a graduate transfer from the University of Virginia, had just a single academic year of eligibility for the Wolverines in 2019, but he made the most of it by earning the conference's top honor for field event athletes.
He is the first man in program history to earn Big Ten Field Athlete of the Year during the outdoor season, and is just the second to earn it either indoors or outdoors. Current volunteer assistant Grant Cartwright claimed the honor indoors in 2017.
Lint, a data science master's student from Westerville, Ohio, saved his best for last, as he was the highest-finishing Big Ten field athlete at the NCAA Outdoor Championships last week in Austin, Texas. Entering as the No. 11 seed in the decathlon, he posted a career-best score of 7,738 points in the two-day, 10-event national competition to finish fourth overall.
His overall placing matched Steven Bastien from 2017 as the best NCAA Championships decathlon finish in program history.
Along the way, Lint posted career-best performances in the long jump (7.11m/23 feet, 4 inches), shot put (13.66m/44-9.75), the 400 meters (48.60), the 110-meter hurdles (14.49, -0.2m/s), the pole vault (4.71m/15-5.5) and the 1,500 meters (4:35.22).
His overall score was the fourth-best in school history, propelled by a second-day score of 3,741 points that was second in school history only to Bastien in 2016.
The NCAA finish came on the heels of a runner-up finish in the decathlon at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships, where he tied as Michigan's top performer at the meet.
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