DALLAS – Awards continue to roll in for NM State following the 2026 Conference USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Alesha Lane earned the CUSA Field Performer of the Meet award, one of six superlatives announced by the conference on Friday.
 
Lane, a senior from Casper, Wyo., earned the distinction after posting a career day in Murfreesboro, recording the highest individual point total among field athletes (17).
 
Beginning on Thursday, Alesha Lane recorded a personal best mark in the hammer throw (51.57 meters) to take eighth place and score points in the event at a championship meet for the first time in her collegiate career.
 
On Friday, Lane returned for the shot put – a high-stakes battle that came down to the last throw. Already posting a new personal best in the prelims (15.91m), she moved into first place with a best throw of 16.05 meters – the second farthest mark in NM State history. This became the first individual championship for Lane and the farthest throw at the championship meet since 2024.
 
Closing out her weekend at the CUSA Championships on Saturday, the fourth-year Aggie tallied her second podium finish of the weekend, taking third in the discus with a best mark of 52.35m.
 
Lane wraps her collegiate career with six podium finishes between indoor and outdoor CUSA Championships (four times in the shot put, twice in the discus).
 
Competing in the shot put at the NCAA West First Round on Thursday, Lane will return to John McDonnell Field at the University of Arkansas on Saturday, May 30, for the discus, aiming to advance to the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships held June 10-13.  
 
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