Lewis' Scott Barnas (Oak Lawn, Ill. /St. Laurence/Moraine Valley C.C.) is the Great Lakes Valley Conference Men’s Indoor Field Athlete of the Week.
Barnas earned a NCAA Division II automatic qualifying mark and first-place finish in the shot put on Saturday at the Cardinal Classic. Taking first-place and recording a fieldhouse record throw of 17.62 meters, he is ranked first in the GLVC and moved up a spot to ninth-place in the NCAA rankings.
Lewis returns to action this weekend at the GLVC Indoor Track & Field Championships hosted by UW-Parkside.
Other top performers in the GLVC this week included Indianapolis’ Matt Royer and Michael Landy.