CHARLESTON - The Big South announced the winners of the annual award winners for men's track and field on Tuesday morning and selected Charleston Southern Maeva Tahou as the women's field athlete of the year. Tahou becomes the second winner of the award in school history as Chloe Greene earned it in 2024.

Tahou earned First-Team All-America honors during the outdoor season in both the long jump and triple jump following her performances at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. She was fifth in the long jump with a Big South-record distance of 6.56m, and placed sixth in the triple jump with a Big South-record leap of 13.44m. 

She was named the Most Valuable Athlete at both the Big South Indoor Championship (40 points) and Outdoor Championship (50.5 points), capped her indoor season with four conference titles (200, 60m Hurdles, triple jump, long jump) and established the league's overall and Championship Meet record the long jump (6.31m), in addition to recording the fourth-best all-time performance in the triple jump (13.03m). Tahou's outdoor season included winning the NCAA East First Round long jump, plus a total of seven medals at the Big South Outdoor Track & Field Championships with four golds (100mH, 4x400m, long jump and triple jump) and three silvers (100m, 200m, 4x100m). Her time of 13.17 seconds in the 100m Hurdles at the NCAA East First Round ranks third all-time in conference history, while her season-best time of 11.52 seconds in the 100m ranks ninth in league annals. Tahou finished with all seven of CSU's team points at the National Outdoor Meet to tie for 35th overall -- the fourth-best team point total in Big South history and the highest by any current conference member.