2 May 2000
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Titans’ Clark Wins Arthur Ashe Jr. Award

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. -- Illinois Wesleyan senior Martez Clark has been chosen to the first team of the Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Awards for track and cross country athletes.

Since 1993, the honors have been given annually by Black Issues in Higher Education magazine, celebrating the teaming of scholarship with athleticism for minority students at the college level. Clark is one of 20 track and cross country athletes, regardless of NCAA division, on the first team, while 16 were second team selections and 14 more made third team.

Clark (Frankfort, Lincoln-Way HS) has a 3.63 grade-point average as an English writing major and political science minor. He is an IWU Minority Alumni Network Award winner and is a member of the Pi Sigma Alpha politics/government honorary, Sigma Tau Delta English honorary, and was chosen to the Order of Titans athletic honorary.

As a long jumper, Clark was an NCAA All-American in both the 2000 indoor national Division III meet and the 1999 outdoor meet, when he finished sixth and fifth, respectively. He set the school record in the indoor long jump with a national-best qualifying leap of 24 feet, 2 inches.

Clark, who also placed ninth in the 1999 indoor nationals, qualified for the 1998 outdoor meet and has provisionally qualified for the 2000 outdoor national meet.

This year's male and female athletes of the year are James Greer of Howard University and Christiana Nwofor of Oberlin.