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The University of Mississippi Athletics
2018 Track and Field Roster
Stewart, Janeah
Janeah Stewart
- Position:
- Throws
- Hometown:
- Calumet City, Ill.
- Prev. School:
- Iowa Central CC
Bio
TFRRS Bio
OLE MISS CAREER NOTES
• 2018 NCAA Outdoor Champion, Hammer Throw
• 9x All-American (Most in Ole Miss history; 5x First-Team, 4x Second-Team)
• 25 NCAA points scored (18 outdoor, 7 indoor)
• No. 4 NCAA, No. 10 U.S. all-time in the hammer (72.92m/239-03)
• No. 5 NCAA, No. 10 U.S. all-time in the weight throw (24.12m/79-01.75)
• 3x SEC Champion
• 10x SEC Medalist
• 80 SEC points scored
• 3x SEC Commissioner's/Cliff Harper Trophy Award Winner (Most points scored, 2x outdoor, 1x indoor)
2018 Outdoor (Senior)
2x USA Finalist (Hammer, 4th; Shot Put, 5th)
NCAA Champion (Hammer Throw)
2x First-Team All-American (Hammer, 1st; Shot Put, 5th)
3x NCAA East Region Qualifier (Shot Put, 1st; Hammer, 1st; Discus, 37th)
SEC Commissioner's Trophy Award Winner (24 Points)
SEC Champion (Shot Put)
First-Team All-SEC (Shot Put)
Second-Team All-SEC (Hammer, 2nd; Discus, 3rd)
USA Finalist in both the hammer throw (fourth place, 70.56m/231-06) and shot put (fifth place, 18.03m/59-02) ... Part of historic U.S. hammer final that saw the American Record reset ... Beat out reigning Olympic gold medalist Michelle Carter in the shot put, who in Rio in 2016 was the first American woman to medal since 1960 ... Won the NCAA hammer title in an upset on a massive 15-foot career-best of 72.92m (239-03), the 10th-best throw in NCAA history to make her the fourth-best collegian and 10th-best American-born hammer thrower ever ... Beat out Northern Arizona's Brooke Andersen by two inches, who entered as the second-best collegian ever at 74.20m (243-05) ... Became the third Rebel woman to ever win an NCAA title, the fifth Ole Miss women's national title after Olympians Brittney Reese (2008 indoor long jump, 2008 outdoor long jump) and Raven Saunders (2016 outdoor shot put, 2017 indoor shot put) won two titles apiece during their Rebel careers ... Became the 21st overall NCAA Champion in Ole Miss track & field history with the 18th total title ... Also earned First-Team All-American status with a fifth-place finish in the shot put just hours later at 17.34m (56-10.75) ... Scored 14 points by herself at the national meet, tied for the most ever by Ole Miss outdoors with the 2008 team ... Qualified for the NCAA East Regional in all three of her throwing events ... Won titles in both the shot put and hammer to punch her ticket to Eugene ... Broke the East Region meet record in the hammer on her winning toss of 68.36m (224-03), then a school record that won the region by three meters ... Won the East title in the shot put at 17.50m (57-05.00), the ninth-best throw in meet history ... Helped lead the Rebel women to the highest SEC Outdoor finish in program history in fifth place ... Scored 24 of the 74 points scored by the Rebel women, earning her second straight SEC Commissioner's Trophy outdoors and third straight SEC points trophy overall ... Her 24 points were the most by an SEC woman since Florida's Genevieve LaCaze tallied 30 in 2012 ... Won just the 10th Rebel women's SEC title in program history in the shot put at what was then a PR 17.97m (58-11.50) ... Took silver in the hammer throw at 66.15m (217-00), losing by two inches on the final throw ... Earned bronze in the discus at a season-best 54.91m (180-02) ... Did not throw less than 213 feet in the hammer in every meet; entered the season with a career best of 212-03.
2018 Indoor (Senior)
First-Team All-American (Weight Throw, 3rd Place)
Second-Team All-American (Shot Put, 15th Place)
SEC Cliff Harper Trophy Winner (18 Points)
SEC Champion (Weight Throw)
First-Team All-SEC (Weight Throw)
Second-Team All-SEC (Shot Put, 2nd Place)
3x SEC Field Athlete of the Week (Jan. 30, Feb. 6, Feb. 13)
Earned First-Team All-American honors with a third-place finish in the weight throw at the NCAA Indoor Championships, throwing 23.26m (76-03.75) ... Also earned Second-Team All-American honors with a 15th-place finish in the shot put ... Tied with Georgia's Keturah Orji at 18 points for the Cliff Harper Trophy, which is given out to the meet's top scorer ... Became first in SEC to repeat as weight throw champion, winning on a Texas A&M facility record of 23.08m (75-08.00) ... Earned her second-straight silver medal in the shot put at an indoor PR of 17.63m (57-10.25), losing out in the last round by three-quarters of an inch ... Was the top collegian in the weight throw at every meet until the NCAA Championship ... Finished the season ranked No. 5 all-time in the NCAA and No. 10 in American history at her career-best 24.12m (79-01.75) from the Music City Challenge ... Won three straight SEC Field Athlete of the Week awards on Jan. 30, Feb. 6 and Feb. 13.
2017 Outdoor (Junior)
2x USA Qualifier (Shot Put, NP; Hammer Throw, 13th)
First-Team All-American (Shot Put, 5th Place)
2x Second-Team All-American (Discus, 9th; Hammer, 10th)
SEC Commissioner's Trophy Award Winner (20 Points)
3x Second-Team All-SEC (Discus, 2nd; Hammer, 3rd; Shot, 3rd)
SEC Field Athlete of the Week (May 2)
Qualified for the USA Outdoor Championships in both the hammer throw (13th place) and shot put (no place) ... One of two women to triple at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, qualifying in all three events in the shot put, discus and hammer ... Earned First-Team All-American honors with a fifth-place finish in the shot put ... Also earned Second-Team All-American honors with a ninth-place finish in the discus and 10th in the hammer ... Also tripled at the NCAA East Regional in the shot (4th), discus (5th) and hammer (11th) ... Earned three different Second-Team All-SEC honors with a runner-up finish in the discus, and two third-place finishes in the hammer and shot ... Set school record in the hammer throw at 64.69m (212-03) at the Florida Relays ... Recorded the second-best marks in school history in both the shot (17.86m/58-07.25) and discus (56.39m/185-00) ... Named SEC Field Athlete of the Week on May 2.
2017 Indoor (Junior)
First-Team All-American (Shot Put, 8th Place)
Second-Team All-American (Weight Throw, 13th Place)
SEC Champion (Weight Throw)
First-Team All-SEC (Weight Throw)
Second-Team All-SEC (Shot Put, 2nd Place)
Qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in both the shot put and weight throw ... Earned first-career Division I All-American honors, earning First-Team in the shot put (eighth place) and Second-Team in the weight throw (13th place) ... Won the SEC title in the weight throw at an SEC meet record and Ole Miss school record of 23.18m (76-00.75), a five-foot PR that ranked as the sixth-best throw in the history of the NCAA at the time ... Finished the season ranked No. 7 in the United States at that throw ... Took eighth at the NCAA Championships in the shot put at indoor career-best 17.23m (56-06.50).
At Iowa Central CC (2015-16)
2016 NJCAA National Women's Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year ... Four-time NJCAA national champion (2015 indoor shot put, 2015 outdoor shot put, 2016 outdoor discus, 2016 outdoor hammer) ... 2016 runner-up in the outdoor shot put ... Nine-time NJCAA All-American, earning honors in the indoor and outdoor shot put, indoor weight throw, outdoor hammer throw and discus ... 2016 USTFCCCA Women's Midwest Indoor Field Athlete of the Year ... Named USTFCCCA Junior College National Athlete of the Week twice in 2016 ... Placed sixth in the shot put and eighth in the hammer throw at the 2015 USATF Junior Championships ... Iowa Central CC school record holder in the shot put (16.31m/53-6.25), discus (50.79m/166-8), hammer throw (58.95m/193-5) and weight throw (19.77m/64-10.5) ... Coached by former John Smith pupil, Brad Foote ... Competed at the USA Junior Championships in the shot put in 2015 after her first season at Iowa Central, finishing sixth.
High School
Lettered in basketball, softball and track at Thornwood High School ... Finished seventh overall at her first state track meet in the shot put at 39' 7" ... Ended high school with a PR of 40 feet in the shot put and 127 feet in the discus ... Was an All-Conference basketball player her senior year ... Graduated with honors and was a member of the National Honor Society
Personal
Born July 21, 1996, to Grace Stewart and LeRoy Watkins Jr. ... Majoring in exercise science ... Wants to work in physical therapy ... Her parents both attended Illinois State, where her father was a four-year starter on the basketball team from 1995-99 ... Her father played professional basketball in Holland, Portugal and Angola ... Scored 1,048 career points at Illinois State ... Chose Ole Miss over Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Miami, South Carolina and UConn.
OLE MISS CAREER NOTES
• 2018 NCAA Outdoor Champion, Hammer Throw
• 9x All-American (Most in Ole Miss history; 5x First-Team, 4x Second-Team)
• 25 NCAA points scored (18 outdoor, 7 indoor)
• No. 4 NCAA, No. 10 U.S. all-time in the hammer (72.92m/239-03)
• No. 5 NCAA, No. 10 U.S. all-time in the weight throw (24.12m/79-01.75)
• 3x SEC Champion
• 10x SEC Medalist
• 80 SEC points scored
• 3x SEC Commissioner's/Cliff Harper Trophy Award Winner (Most points scored, 2x outdoor, 1x indoor)
2018 Outdoor (Senior)
2x USA Finalist (Hammer, 4th; Shot Put, 5th)
NCAA Champion (Hammer Throw)
2x First-Team All-American (Hammer, 1st; Shot Put, 5th)
3x NCAA East Region Qualifier (Shot Put, 1st; Hammer, 1st; Discus, 37th)
SEC Commissioner's Trophy Award Winner (24 Points)
SEC Champion (Shot Put)
First-Team All-SEC (Shot Put)
Second-Team All-SEC (Hammer, 2nd; Discus, 3rd)
USA Finalist in both the hammer throw (fourth place, 70.56m/231-06) and shot put (fifth place, 18.03m/59-02) ... Part of historic U.S. hammer final that saw the American Record reset ... Beat out reigning Olympic gold medalist Michelle Carter in the shot put, who in Rio in 2016 was the first American woman to medal since 1960 ... Won the NCAA hammer title in an upset on a massive 15-foot career-best of 72.92m (239-03), the 10th-best throw in NCAA history to make her the fourth-best collegian and 10th-best American-born hammer thrower ever ... Beat out Northern Arizona's Brooke Andersen by two inches, who entered as the second-best collegian ever at 74.20m (243-05) ... Became the third Rebel woman to ever win an NCAA title, the fifth Ole Miss women's national title after Olympians Brittney Reese (2008 indoor long jump, 2008 outdoor long jump) and Raven Saunders (2016 outdoor shot put, 2017 indoor shot put) won two titles apiece during their Rebel careers ... Became the 21st overall NCAA Champion in Ole Miss track & field history with the 18th total title ... Also earned First-Team All-American status with a fifth-place finish in the shot put just hours later at 17.34m (56-10.75) ... Scored 14 points by herself at the national meet, tied for the most ever by Ole Miss outdoors with the 2008 team ... Qualified for the NCAA East Regional in all three of her throwing events ... Won titles in both the shot put and hammer to punch her ticket to Eugene ... Broke the East Region meet record in the hammer on her winning toss of 68.36m (224-03), then a school record that won the region by three meters ... Won the East title in the shot put at 17.50m (57-05.00), the ninth-best throw in meet history ... Helped lead the Rebel women to the highest SEC Outdoor finish in program history in fifth place ... Scored 24 of the 74 points scored by the Rebel women, earning her second straight SEC Commissioner's Trophy outdoors and third straight SEC points trophy overall ... Her 24 points were the most by an SEC woman since Florida's Genevieve LaCaze tallied 30 in 2012 ... Won just the 10th Rebel women's SEC title in program history in the shot put at what was then a PR 17.97m (58-11.50) ... Took silver in the hammer throw at 66.15m (217-00), losing by two inches on the final throw ... Earned bronze in the discus at a season-best 54.91m (180-02) ... Did not throw less than 213 feet in the hammer in every meet; entered the season with a career best of 212-03.
2018 Indoor (Senior)
First-Team All-American (Weight Throw, 3rd Place)
Second-Team All-American (Shot Put, 15th Place)
SEC Cliff Harper Trophy Winner (18 Points)
SEC Champion (Weight Throw)
First-Team All-SEC (Weight Throw)
Second-Team All-SEC (Shot Put, 2nd Place)
3x SEC Field Athlete of the Week (Jan. 30, Feb. 6, Feb. 13)
Earned First-Team All-American honors with a third-place finish in the weight throw at the NCAA Indoor Championships, throwing 23.26m (76-03.75) ... Also earned Second-Team All-American honors with a 15th-place finish in the shot put ... Tied with Georgia's Keturah Orji at 18 points for the Cliff Harper Trophy, which is given out to the meet's top scorer ... Became first in SEC to repeat as weight throw champion, winning on a Texas A&M facility record of 23.08m (75-08.00) ... Earned her second-straight silver medal in the shot put at an indoor PR of 17.63m (57-10.25), losing out in the last round by three-quarters of an inch ... Was the top collegian in the weight throw at every meet until the NCAA Championship ... Finished the season ranked No. 5 all-time in the NCAA and No. 10 in American history at her career-best 24.12m (79-01.75) from the Music City Challenge ... Won three straight SEC Field Athlete of the Week awards on Jan. 30, Feb. 6 and Feb. 13.
2017 Outdoor (Junior)
2x USA Qualifier (Shot Put, NP; Hammer Throw, 13th)
First-Team All-American (Shot Put, 5th Place)
2x Second-Team All-American (Discus, 9th; Hammer, 10th)
SEC Commissioner's Trophy Award Winner (20 Points)
3x Second-Team All-SEC (Discus, 2nd; Hammer, 3rd; Shot, 3rd)
SEC Field Athlete of the Week (May 2)
Qualified for the USA Outdoor Championships in both the hammer throw (13th place) and shot put (no place) ... One of two women to triple at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, qualifying in all three events in the shot put, discus and hammer ... Earned First-Team All-American honors with a fifth-place finish in the shot put ... Also earned Second-Team All-American honors with a ninth-place finish in the discus and 10th in the hammer ... Also tripled at the NCAA East Regional in the shot (4th), discus (5th) and hammer (11th) ... Earned three different Second-Team All-SEC honors with a runner-up finish in the discus, and two third-place finishes in the hammer and shot ... Set school record in the hammer throw at 64.69m (212-03) at the Florida Relays ... Recorded the second-best marks in school history in both the shot (17.86m/58-07.25) and discus (56.39m/185-00) ... Named SEC Field Athlete of the Week on May 2.
2017 Indoor (Junior)
First-Team All-American (Shot Put, 8th Place)
Second-Team All-American (Weight Throw, 13th Place)
SEC Champion (Weight Throw)
First-Team All-SEC (Weight Throw)
Second-Team All-SEC (Shot Put, 2nd Place)
Qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in both the shot put and weight throw ... Earned first-career Division I All-American honors, earning First-Team in the shot put (eighth place) and Second-Team in the weight throw (13th place) ... Won the SEC title in the weight throw at an SEC meet record and Ole Miss school record of 23.18m (76-00.75), a five-foot PR that ranked as the sixth-best throw in the history of the NCAA at the time ... Finished the season ranked No. 7 in the United States at that throw ... Took eighth at the NCAA Championships in the shot put at indoor career-best 17.23m (56-06.50).
At Iowa Central CC (2015-16)
2016 NJCAA National Women's Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year ... Four-time NJCAA national champion (2015 indoor shot put, 2015 outdoor shot put, 2016 outdoor discus, 2016 outdoor hammer) ... 2016 runner-up in the outdoor shot put ... Nine-time NJCAA All-American, earning honors in the indoor and outdoor shot put, indoor weight throw, outdoor hammer throw and discus ... 2016 USTFCCCA Women's Midwest Indoor Field Athlete of the Year ... Named USTFCCCA Junior College National Athlete of the Week twice in 2016 ... Placed sixth in the shot put and eighth in the hammer throw at the 2015 USATF Junior Championships ... Iowa Central CC school record holder in the shot put (16.31m/53-6.25), discus (50.79m/166-8), hammer throw (58.95m/193-5) and weight throw (19.77m/64-10.5) ... Coached by former John Smith pupil, Brad Foote ... Competed at the USA Junior Championships in the shot put in 2015 after her first season at Iowa Central, finishing sixth.
High School
Lettered in basketball, softball and track at Thornwood High School ... Finished seventh overall at her first state track meet in the shot put at 39' 7" ... Ended high school with a PR of 40 feet in the shot put and 127 feet in the discus ... Was an All-Conference basketball player her senior year ... Graduated with honors and was a member of the National Honor Society
Personal
Born July 21, 1996, to Grace Stewart and LeRoy Watkins Jr. ... Majoring in exercise science ... Wants to work in physical therapy ... Her parents both attended Illinois State, where her father was a four-year starter on the basketball team from 1995-99 ... Her father played professional basketball in Holland, Portugal and Angola ... Scored 1,048 career points at Illinois State ... Chose Ole Miss over Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Miami, South Carolina and UConn.
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