Lisgo and Staton named Horizon League Outdoor Track & Field Athletes of the Year

INDIANAPOLIS -- Butler University junior Steve Lisgo and Loyola University Chicago senior Pam Staton have been named 2009 Horizon League Outdoor Track & Field Athletes of the Year in a vote of the League's eight head coaches.

Lisgo, a distance runner from Mansfield, U.K., helps Butler win the Men's Athlete of the Year award for the fourth time in the past five years.

Lisgo earned All-America honors after placing third in the 3,000-meter steeple chase (8:35.49) at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. The performance marked a school record and was Butler's highest national-meet finish since 2005.

He became an NCAA automatic qualifier with a third-place effort in the steeplechase (8:42.84) at the MidEast Regional in Louisville, Ky.

Lisgo also finished first in the steeplechase (8:51.49) and fourth in the 1,500 meter (3:56.07) at the Horizon League Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Lisle, Ill. His steeplechase clocking established a new meet record.

Staton, a distance runner from Ingleside, Ill., helps Loyola win the Women's Athlete of the Year honor for the first time since the award was established in 2003.

Staton collected two individual titles -- 800 meter (2:12.31) and 1,500 meter (4:36.58) -- at the Horizon League Outdoor Track & Field Championships.

She placed 10th in the 800 at the NCAA MidEast Regional with a school-record time of 2:07.96.

The two-time U.S. Army Scholar-Athlete of the Month also ran a leg of the Ramblers' record-setting 4x400-meter relay at the Duke Invitational in early April.