Norfolk State has earned the Talmadge Layman Hill Males’s All-Sports activities Award for the 2023-24 educational yr, bestowed to the Mid-Jap Athletic Convention (MEAC) faculty with probably the most success throughout all males’s athletic packages. Howard College took the Mary McLeod Bethune Ladies’s All-Sports activities Award, offered to the top-performing athletics division on the ladies’s aspect. Each faculties had been offered with a $20,000 verify on the award ceremony in Orlando, Fla. on Thursday night.
“Congratulations to Norfolk State College, together with President Dr. Javaune Adams-Gaston, Director of Athletics Melody Webb, and the complete athletic division for successful the 2024 Talmadge Layman Hill Males’s All-Sports activities Award,” MEAC commissioner Sonja Stills mentioned. “Receiving these awards is indicative of the general power of their athletics packages, and each establishments had an exceptional 2023-24 educational yr.” Norfolk State received the boys’s all-sports award tally with 47 factors, edging out the runner-up Howard (37). The Spartans racked up recognitions in a number of key areas, together with a daily season basketball title and a sweep of the cross nation, indoor, and outside observe & discipline championships. NSU completed second within the ladies’s standings, led by the cross nation and ladies’s basketball groups’ convention championships. The Spartans stored the momentum occurring the observe, claiming runner-up honors at each the indoor and outside championship meets. The award marks Norfolk State’s second Talmadge Layman Hill award of the final three years and thirteenth general – greater than another MEAC males’s program.
