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USA Today
27-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Washington's Moll twins make history yet again as Bowerman semifinalists
Hana and Amanda Moll have to be used to making history at this point. Between the two of them, the twin sisters have set practically every high school and college record in the pole vault over the last three years. They've swept the NCAA Field Athlete of the Year honors, won three NCAA titles, and currently own the best and fifth-best clearances in the world. The Bowerman Award, track and field's equivalent of the Heisman Trophy, released their top 10 semifinalists on Monday. Amanda, who set six NCAA records and won the indoor title, was on there. Hana, who set an NCAA record to win the outdoor title earlier this month, was on there too. They are the first set of sisters to be named semifinalists for the award in the same season. The other semifinalists for the award are NCAA 400m champion Aaliyah Butler (Georgia), 100m and 200m champion JaMeesia Ford (South Carolina), 5k and 10k champion Pamela Kosgei (New Mexico), high jump champion Elena Kulichenko (Georgia), steeplechase champion Doris Lemngole (Alabama), shot put champion Mya Lesnar (Colorado State), 400m hurdles champion Savannah Sutherland (Michigan), and 800m champion Roisin Willis (Stanford). A Washington Husky, man or woman, has never won the Bowerman Award, which began in 2009. Previous winners include 2024 Olympic gold medalists Grant Holloway and Julien Alfred. The winner of the award will be announced in December. The Moll twins will almost certainly be back in action at the US Track and Field Championships, which begin in Eugene, Oregon, on July 31.
USA Today
08-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Amanda Moll wins multiple weekly awards after record-setting weekend
Amanda Moll wins multiple weekly awards after record-setting weekend Amanda Moll may have a strong argument for the most dominant season by a Husky athlete by the end of the school year. Days after setting her fifth NCAA record of the season, the sophomore pole vaulter was named the USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week for the third time this year. All three awards have come after Moll set a collegiate record. Moll was also named Big Ten Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week after being named the conference's Indoor Field Athlete of the Year in March. Moll's 15-7 1/4 clearance at Saturday's Desert Heat Classic in Tucson, Arizona, bested the previous outdoor record held by Paris Olympian Brynn King, who cleared a bar one centimeter lower at the Texas Relays earlier this season. Moll already held the indoor and overall record at 16-1 1/4, set on February 28. That mark remains the best in the world this year - the 15-7 1/4 clearance from Saturday would be sixth in the world as well. Moll and her twin sister Hana went 1-2 in Tucson, elevating the two of them to 1-2 in the NCAA Division I standings as well. (King competes for D-II Roberts Wesleyan.) Hana currently has the fourth-best vault in the world this year, also from February 28, and the two of them look to be in a league of their own as the NCAA Championships near. Only two other Division I athletes have cleared the 15-foot mark this season: Baylor's Molly Haywood and Oklahoma's Olivia Lueking.
