Angelo State head track and field coach James Reid and sophomore multi-event specialist Aisha Adams were honored Wednesday night as the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced its National Athletes and Coaches of the Year.

Adams, a sophomore from Covington, Tenn., was named the Women's Field National Athlete of the Year prior to competing in six events in this weekend's NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field National Championships at the LeGrand Sports Complex in San Angelo. She enters the event as the top performer in NCAA D-II this season in the heptathlon and the high jump. Adams led all scorers in the 2009 Lone Star Conference Championships, held earlier in the month in Kingsville, and was honored as the David Noble Award recipient as the top female field athlete of the meet. She was named the South Central Female Field Athlete of the Year to be eligible for the national honor.

A six-time LSC Women's Track & Field Coach of the Year, Reid was named the NCAA D-II National Women's Coach of the Year Wednesday night. Reid guided the Rambelles to the highest point total (331) in LSC Championships history earlier this month as his squad claimed its third conference title in six seasons. Reid was honored as the South Central Region Women's Coach of the Year to be eligible for the national award.

In addition to regional and national awards given out, six new members of the NCAA D-II Track & Field Hall of Fame were inducted, three of which were former ASU student-athletes. Eric Cole, Curry Dawson and Amber Miller were enshrined and now give Angelo State seven Hall of Famers. Cole was a seven-time All-American and an eight-time LSC champion for the Rams and claimed the national crown in the discus in 1991 and in the hammer in 1993. Dawson was a two-time national champion in the discus (2000, 2001) and added the national title in the shot put  in 2001 as well. Miller was a four-time All-American and earned the national championship in the javelin in 2003.

Other Hall of Fame inductees Wednesday night were Texas A&M-Commerce's Agipus Amo, Morehouse's Gregory Roberts and Missouri Southern's Tongula Steddum.

The 2009 NCAA D-II National Championship open Thursday morning with the decathlon at 10:30 a.m. and the heptathlon at 11:30 a.m.