BATON ROUGE – Lady Tiger sophomore Kimberlyn Duncan needs the help of the LSU faithful as the online fan voting for The Bowerman is now down to its final week. By going to www.TheBowerman.org, fans can submit their votes for Duncan as this year’s winner through Tuesday, Aug. 16.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Duncan trails Texas A&M’s Jessica Beard by 1,128 total votes at 45 percent to 39 percent in online fan voting. Arkansas’ Tina Sutej is a distant third place with 16 percent of the vote.
The results of the online fan voting will count for one full vote in the final balloting to both the men’s and women’s recipients of the most prestigious individual honor in collegiate track and field.
Now in its third year, The Bowerman is collegiate track and field’s equivalent to the Heisman Trophy and is presented annually by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association to the premier male and female athlete in the country following each collegiate season.
Balloting by The Bowerman Award Advisory Board, past winners, selected media personnel, statisticians and collegiate administrators is also underway until later this month. An independent accounting firm will collect, tabulate and certify final results and will keep the result secret until the envelopes are opened with the winners announced at the USTFCCCA convention on Wednesday, Dec. 14.