USTFCCCA National Athletes of the Week (Feb. 27)

NEW ORLEANS -- Showing he is more than ready for the NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field National Championships, Mobolade Ajomale delivered the fastest 60m time in DII this season, a 45-second split in the 4x400m, and broke his own DII record in the 200m en route to being named DII National Athlete of the Week as announced by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association on Tuesday.

Competing four different times at the Boston University Last Chance Meet, the Communications & Media Technologies would start the day with a 6.69 in the 60m prelims, finishing first of 31, then move into the event finals where Ajomale once again assumed the top spot in DII with a 6.63, pushing him past Pitt State's Juante Baldwin whose 6.65 had been at the head of the list for much of the year.

In his historic 200m, Ajomale would better the time that made him the Division II record-holder and an All-American at Indoor Nationals in 2016. More than one-tenth of a second faster than anyone else in the race on Sunday, Ajomale bolted to a 20.67 for the No. 1 time in DII and a top 10 mark across all divisions.

The Richmond Hill, Canada native later posted a 45-second split in his leg of the 4x400m, helping ART U go 3:12.42 for the second-fastest time in program history and a mark ranked seventh in the country only 0.06 from the Indoor Nationals automatic qualifying standard.

"Bolade had a really special day," said head coach Kevin LaSure. "It was probably one of the single best performances in Division II history. To run two No. 1 times in the country, with one being a Division II national record in the 200m, then end the day splitting 45 seconds on the 4x400m to help win the event and qualify for the NCAAs is extremely rare and tough to do in one day."

This is Ajomale's third career National Athlete of the Week award after he first earned the honor on Feb. 2, 2016 and his second on Feb. 28, 2017.