Abby Steiner, Lonnie Greene, Tim Hall Win USTFCCCA Regional Awards

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky track & field’s Abby Steiner, Head Coach Lonnie Greene and Associate Head Coach Tim Hall earned United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Southeast Region awards for the second year in a row Thursday afternoon. 

Steiner was named the Women’s Runner of the Year, Coach Greene the Women’s Coach of the Year and Coach Hall the Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year. 

The Southeast Region is comprised of 35 Division I schools in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Kentucky, in which the women’s team finished the indoor season ranked first. 

This is the fifth time that Greene has won a men’s or women’s Regional Coach of the Year Award from the USTFCCCA, his first at Kentucky.  This is the 10th regional men’s or women’s assistant coach of the year award for Hall, six of which have come at Kentucky.  He’s won the indoor coaching award six times, five of which have been with the Wildcats. 

Greene’s fearless leadership of the men’s and women’s teams earned multiple program records. 

The women’s team earned a program record 44 points at NCAA Indoor Championships, placing third as a team for Coach Greene’s first NCAA team trophy (top-four finish at NCAA Championships) as a head coach. Third place was also tied for the highest place the UK women’s team ever earned at NCAA Indoors. 

The Wildcats earned 23 All-America honors, 18 first-team honors and five second-team honors from 15 student-athletes. 

The UK women also earned a program record 79 points in their third-place finish at SEC Championships. 

Greene closely coaches the 400m and hurdles runners and trained UKTF standouts Alexis Holmes, Masai Russell and Megan Moss. 

Holmes had the fastest 400m in the NCAA during the indoor season (50.77), won SEC gold and placed fourth at NCAA Championships. 

Russell was the NCAA runner-up in the 60m hurdles (7.95) and SEC bronze medalist in the same event. 

Megan Moss, another one of Coach Greene’s 400m runners, had a huge impact on UKTF relays indoors, running in the 4x400m school record relay at SEC Championships for bronze, running in the SEC bronze distance medley relay and running in the DMR at NCAAs that finished in fifth place (11:02.41). 

Steiner had a historic indoor season for UKTF to earn this award, breaking the American record and her own collegiate record in the 200m in her SEC Championship race (22.09) for her third SEC gold in the event in a row. 

She also earned her second NCAA title in the 200m and had her highest 60m NCAA finish of her career, placing second with a time of 7.10. 

Steiner now has the three fastest 200m times in women’s collegiate history, running 22.37 for the then-collegiate record in February in Clemson and earning her second fastest time of her career (22.16) when she won NCAA gold. 

Hall, Steiner’s coach in the short sprints, helped train her for this historic season and impressive performances from the rest of the women’s sprinters, Hall was named Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year.  

Adding to Steiner’s success in the 200m was another of Hall’s athletes, Karimah Davis. She had the fifth fastest time in the NCAA this season in the 200m (22.79), earned SEC bronze in the event and finished sixth at NCAA Championships.  

Davis and Steiner were also members of the school record 4x400m relay that ran the third fastest time in collegiate history for SEC bronze (3:25.89). 

Dajour Miles, who also trains under Hall, joined Davis and Steiner in the 4x400m at NCAA Championships, helping the team run for bronze (3:28.87). 

The 2022 Indoor Season 

In total, Coach Greene and Coach Hall led the Wildcats to break nine school records in the indoor season:  

• Women’s 60m – Abby Steiner, 7.10 

• Women’s 200m – Abby Steiner, 22.09 American record, collegiate record 

• Women’s 300m – Abby Steiner, 35.80 collegiate record 

• Women’s 4x400m – Megan Moss, Abby Steiner, Karimah Davis, Alexis Holmes, 3:25.89 

• Women’s DMR – Jenna Gearing, Dajour Miles, Jenna Schwinghamer, Tori Herman, 10:58.81c 

• Men’s 200m – Lance Lang, 20.32 

• Men’s 300m – Dwight St. Hillaire, 32.70 

• Men’s pole vault – Keaton Daniel, 18’0.5″/5.50m 

• Men’s triple jump – Luke Brown, 53’5″/16.28m 

Chief among the season’s many highlights were Steiner’s 200m American indoor record run at SEC Championships, Steiner’s second NCAA title in the 200m and silver effort in the 60m, Holmes’ collegiate-leading 50.77 in the 400m, the women’s 4x400m third fastest time in collegiate history (3:25.89), Russell’s silver effort in the 60H at NCAA Championships, Lang’s school record (20.32) and SEC gold in the 200m and Brown breaking the triple jump school record three times in one season as a freshman, being named the SEC Men’s Freshman Field Athlete of the Year. 

Steiner notched three USTFCCCA National Women’s Athlete of the Week awards, two SEC Women’s Runner of the Week awards, SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year and SEC Women’s Runner of the Year. 

At SEC Championships, the women’s team finished third with 79 points while the men’s team finished fourth with 64 points. The women earned their highest point total at SEC Indoor Championships in team history. 

At NCAA Championships, the women’s team finished third with 44 points, tying the program’s highest finish indoors ever, while the men placed 21st with 10 points. 

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