PBC YEARBOOK
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Many of these athletes and teams will be in action come May 2628 at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships held in
Bradenton, Florida.
Former PBC Standout Ndhlovu to Run in Rio Olympics
Former UNC Pembroke standout runner and Augusta University
assistant coach Pardon Ndhlovu has been selected to run in the Rio
Olympic games for his home country of Zimbabwe. Ndhlovu was
won of three athletes named to the marathon team by the National
Athletics Association of Zimbabwe (NAAZ) over the weekend.
Ndhlovu will join Olympians Wirimai Juwawo and Cuthbert
Nyasango, who competed in the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Ndhlovu recently posted two Olympic qualifying times when he
dominated the 2016 and 2015 Houston Marathon. He finished 10th in
each race and crossed the line in 2:17.32 in 2016 and 2:16.51 in 2015
– both times under the 2:19 qualifying standard.
Ndhlovu ran cross country and track at UNC Pembroke from 200912. A four-time All-Conference runner, he won the 2011 and 2012
PBC Championship and was named the PBC Runner of the Year both
seasons, one of only four PBC men’s runners to ever win that award
twice. His 2012 championship time is 24:20 stands as the third-fastest 8k run in the PBC Championships.
He also competed in PBC track and field in his senior season in
2013, the first year the conference held it as a championship sport. He
was named the PBC men’s Track Athlete of the Year that season, winning the 1,500- 5,000- and 10,000-meter runs. He advanced to the
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NCAA National Championships that year and was named an All-American in both the 5k and 10k. He still holds the PBC record in the 10k for
all meets at 29:04.01.
Ndhlovu was named a CoSIDA Academic All-American twice during
his career and received the NCAA postgraduate scholarship, which allowed him to serve as a graduate assistant coach at Augusta University
for two years.
2016 Peach Belt
Men’s Track & Field
Elite 15 Awards presented by GradesFirst
Daniel Schultz, Florida Tech
Men’s Track Athlete of the Year:
Albert Chelimo, Shorter
Men’s Field Athlete of the Year:
Nathan Knox, Florida Tech
Men’s Freshman Track Athlete of the Year:
Maximilian Sperl, Nova Southeastern
Men’s Freshman Field Athlete of the Year:
William Glesge, Nova Southeastern
Men’s Coach of the Year:
Bryan Hagopian, Nova Southeastern
2015-16