LITTLE ROCK – For the second consecutive week, Little Rock track and field's Charles Okeze was named the Sun Belt Conference's Men's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week on Wednesday afternoon.
Okeze recorded two second-place finishes at the Ole Miss Classic on Saturday in the 100- and 200-meter dash. His 200-meter time of 20.99 was the fastest in the Sun Belt, 15th-fastest in the NCAA West Region and 39th-fastest in the nation this season. He beat his own personal record by .03 seconds and has the sixth-fastest time in program history.
In the 100, Okeze tied his own personal record with a time of 10.