OCU’s Aguero, Olowora garner USTFCCCA regional honors

Aguero becomes South Central Region coach of year

Aminat Olowora and Matt Aguero accept their regional awards.

Women's Cross Country | 11/14/2016 6:28:00 PM

NEW ORLEANS – Oklahoma City University head women's cross country coach Matt Aguero and NAIA individual champion Aminat Olowora took home U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association South Central regional honors as voted on by the coaches.
Olowora, a junior from Lagos, Nigeria, was named the South Central regional women's cross country runner of the year, while Aguero picked up regional coach of the year.
A transfer from Southwestern (Calif.), Olowora became the NAIA individual national champion while setting the national meet record as well as the Sooner Athletic Conference individual champ. This season, Olowora was the fastest runner at the Oklahoma State Cowboy Jamboree, set the OCU record in the Chile Pepper Festival by 70 seconds while finishing second among all runners in the race. She won all five races she competed in.
Olowora has garnered three SAC runner of the week nods, three NAIA runner of the week honors, all-SAC and NAIA all-American this year. Olowora became the first OCU runner to take the individual national title.
Aguero was named the USTFCCCA South Central regional women's cross country coach of the year. He led the Stars to the program's first top-five finish in women's cross country in school history in the NAIA Championships this weekend as well as the conference crown in his first season as OCU head coach. He was an assistant for the OCU cross country and track & field teams from 2014-16 before he was named the head coach before this season.

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Players Mentioned

Aminat Olowora: Junior

Players Mentioned

Aminat Olowora
: Junior