AUBURN, Ala. – Following successful performances at last week's Southeastern Conference Championships, Auburn sophomore Favour Ashe was names to the All-SEC First Team and seniors Kyle Brown and Madi Malone were named to the All-SEC Second Team.
"I'm really excited the have three athletes earn All SEC Honors," Tigers head coach Lery Burrell said. "Kyle and Madi, Favour have really just picked up where they left of last year and it's telling that two (Kyle and Madi) were selected to be team captains but all three of them are such great athletes and fierce competitors that we're fortunate to have them here at Auburn."
In his first conference meet in an Auburn uniform, Ashe ran 6.52 en route to winning gold in the men's 60m dash. The Nigerian native recorded the second fastest 60m dash time in school history while becoming the eighth fastest man ever at Auburn to win the event at the conference meet, the first since Dante Brown in 2021. Ashe's time was also the fastest ran at the meet world champion Christian Coleman of Tennessee who recorded the same time in 2017.
In her final indoor conference championship, four-time All-American Malone took home the bronze medal in the women's weight throw with a season-best mark of 22.71m/74-6.25. Malone closed out her indoor SEC career just as she started it, on the podium. The Wichita, Kansas native won the silver medal at the 2019 indoor SEC Championships where she broke the then Auburn and Auburn freshman record in the weight throw with a throw of 22.11m/72-6.5.
"Coach [Pat] Ebel had a clear goal for us and that was to score more points that we were scheduled to get," Malone said. "I came into the meet ranked fourth and I finished third so to catch that third place was really nice for my last indoor SECs."
For the second year in a row, Brown earned a bronze medal in the men's weight throw with a career-best toss of 22.24m/72-11.75 on his third of six attempts. Brown became the first Tiger to post back-to-back podium efforts in the event since Jacob Dunkleberger in 2007 and 2008.
"I think we had a clear set goal coming into this meet that Coach Ebel and I talked about," Brown said. "Really just come out, have a good opener and just build off that and just compete and have fun with it."
The All-SEC first team consists of the top finishers in each event, while the second team consists of the second and third place finishers in each event. Ties are not broken.
2023 All-SEC Indoor Track and Field Teams
Men
First Team All-SEC
Favour Ashe, Auburn
Bobby Colantonio, Alabama
Cameron Crump, Mississippi State
Keaton Daniel, Kentucky
Filip Demsar, South Carolina
Anass Essayi, South Carolina
Elija Godwin, Georgia
Rasheeme Griffith, Tennessee
Jaydon Hibbert, Arkansas
Joe Hoots, Tennessee
Demetrius Jackson, Alabama
Dylan Jacobs, Tennessee
Victor Kiprop, Alabama
Khaleb McRae, Alabama
John Meyer, LSU
Tarsis Orogot, Alabama
Ayden Owens-Delerme, Arkansas
Jacory Patterson, Florida
Ushan Perera, Texas A&M
Chris Robinson, Alabama
Will Sumner, Georgia
Yordanos Zelinski, Tennessee
Second Team All-SEC
Yaseen Abdalla, Tennessee
Dylan Allen, Kentucky
Jordan Anthony, Kentucky
Sam Austin, Florida
Christopher Bailey, Arkansas
Peyton Bair, Mississippi State
Ricardo Banks, Arkansas
Matthew Boling, Georgia
Davis Bove, LSU
Shane Bracken, Ole Miss
Kyle Brown, Auburn
Rasheem Brown, Tennessee
Emmanuel Bynum, Tennessee
Anthony Camerieri, Ole Miss
Caleb Cavanaugh, Georgia
Zach Davis, Texas A&M
Clement Ducos, Tennessee
Apalos Edwards, LSU
Christian Edwards, Alabama
Johannes Erm, Georgia
Jeremy Farr, Arkansas
Cade Flatt, Ole Miss
Baylor Franklin, Ole Miss
Jakwan Hale, Tennessee
Tony Jones, Mississippi State
Patrick Kiprop, Arkansas
Jack Mann III, Texas A&M
Carey McLeod, Arkansas
Noah Mumme, Ole Miss
Godson Oghenebrume, LSU
Wayne Pinnock, Arkansas
Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, Ole Miss
Chase Rose, Ole Miss
Elias Schreml, Arkansas
Connor Schulman, Texas A&M
Ben Shearer, Arkansas
Roje Stona, Arkansas
Roberto Vilches, Missouri
Jordan West, Arkansas
Women
First Team All-SEC
Amber Anning, Arkansas
Flomena Asekol, Alabama
Mercy Chelangat, Alabama
Jalani Davis, Ole Miss
Talitha Diggs, Florida
Lamara Distin, Texas A&M
Rosey Effiong, Arkansas
Amanda Fassold, Arkansas
Lauren Gregory, Arkansas
Jasmine Moore, Florida
Amara Obi, Alabama
Favour Ofili, LSU
Hilda Olemomoi, Alabama
Jami Reed, Alabama
Joanne Reid, Arkansas
Michaela Rose, LSU
Masai Russell, Kentucky
Jacious Sears, Tennessee
Alida Van Daalen, Florida
Annika Williams, Kentucky
Britton Wilson, Arkansas
Second Team All-SEC
Silan Ayyildiz, South Carolina
Kaitlyn Banas, Arkansas
Imogen Barrett, Florida
Kaira Brown, Vanderbilt
Claire Bryant, Florida
Anthaya Charlton, Kentucky
Ashanti Denton, Arkansas
Veronica Fraley, Vanderbilt
Aalliyah Francis, South Carolina
Angel Frank, South Carolina
Kayla Gholar, Tennessee
Tori Herman, Kentucky
Kaila Jackson, Georgia
Alysia Johnson, South Carolina
Beatrice Juskeviciute, Vanderbilt
Elena Kulichenko, Georgia
Sterling Lester, Florida
McKenzie Long, Ole Miss
Madi Malone, Auburn
Allyria McBride, Vanderbilt
Katie McCune, Arkansas
Jasmine Mitchell, Ole Miss
Ackera Nugent, Arkansas
Brooke Overholt, Vanderbilt
Lainey Quandt, Arkansas
Jahnile Registre, South Carolina
Tierra Robinson-Jones, Texas A&M
Taiya Shelby, Vanderbilt
Morgan Smalls, LSU
Vasileia Spyrou, Florida
Siobhan Szerencsits, Kentucky
Charisma Taylor, Tennessee
Sydney Thorvaldson, Arkansas
Vanessa Watson, Florida
Mikeisha Welcome, Georgia
Gabrielle Wilkinson, Florida