CHARLOTTE – The Big South Conference announced the winners for the 2023-24 Track & Field Athletes of the Year on Monday afternoon, selecting a pair of Bucs as winners for awards. Charleston Southern's Shawn Langley Jr. was chosen as the Men's Track Athlete of the Year and Chloe Greene was chosen as the Women's Field Athlete of the Year. The awards are voted on by the Big South head track & field coaches as part of their annual June meeting and encompass both the indoor track & field seasons.
 
Langley swept the 400m titles at the Big South Championship meets this year recording times of 46.94 in indoor and 46.36 in outdoor to claim the victories in 2024. He earned additional All-Conference medals in the 200m (outdoor) plus 4x400m in indoor and outdoor (bronze). This season, he advanced to the NCAA East First Round for the second consecutive year, where he ran 46.99 in the 400m to finish 31st overall at the meet. His 400m outdoor title marked the second time that he has won the event in his career. In the event, his effort marked a season-best after he ran a season-best 46.57 in the prelims. He established a PR in the 200m at the Big South Championship with a legal time of 21.06 for the 8th-fastest time in school history and was on the 4x400m relay team which took 3rd overall with a time of 3:15.15 for the 8th-best in program history. He opened his outdoor season winning the 200m and 4x400m at the Charleston Southern Invitational. During indoors, Langley won the 400m Conference Championship with a PR time of 46.94. The time ranks as the second-best in CSU history and 6th-fastest in Big South history. He also had the fastest time through the prelims with a 47.77 at the event. In the finals, he took second in the 200m with a time of 21.28, just tenths of a second off his indoor personal best and helped the 4x400m squad to 3rd place finish with a time of 3:17.94. The time was tenths of a second off being the top time in the field as well as a Top 10 mark in school history. Langley totaled 24 points at the meet which helped tie the Buccaneers' best finish at the Big South Championship and create a new top mark for points scored at the conference meet with 136.5 points. He broke the school and conference records in the 300m with a time of 33.38 at the Gamecock Opener in January, ran an indoor personal-best in the 200m with a time of 21.22 which is second in school history and 9th all-time in the Big South, and was part of the winning 4x400m relay squad at the USC Open in February that recorded the fourth-fastest in school history at 3:15.89.
 
Greene was the Most Valuable Athlete at both the Big South Indoor Championship (22 points) and Outdoor Championship (31 points) in 2024 in what some of the best all-around performances in conference history. She was the Pentathlon champion and finished third in the long jump and scored in the triple jump and high jump. Additionally, she claimed medals during the Big South Outdoor Championship in the long jump (second) and high jump (third), and scored in the 100m Hurdles, javelin and triple jump. She concluded the outdoor season in the javelin at the NCAA East First Round and qualified for the event with a PR of 46.34m at the Charleston Southern Last Chance Qualifier with the mark ranking seventh all-time in Big South history. At the Big South Outdoor Championships, Greene set PRs in the 100mH (13.95), long jump (5.99m -- 10^th all-time in league records) and triple jump (11.17m). Her outdoor season included wins in the long jump and javelin at the Charleston Southern Invitational in March. During the indoor campaign, Greene won the Big South Pentathlon with a score of 3506 -- one point shy of her personal best which is also the school record. Also at the meet, she was third in the long jump with a 5.75m, a PR in the indoor event that is tied for fourth in school history. Greene recorded a personal-best in the triple jump with a leap of 11.12m to take sixth. Her points at the Indoor Championship helped the Buccaneers claim second-place to mark the highest finish in program history and a program-record 157 points. Greene was also part of CSU's winning DMR team at the South Carolina Invitational in February, as the relay squad turned in a school-record 11:46.26 -- the third-fastest in Big South history. She also set a school record in the 600m with a time of 1:36.99 at the Gamecock Opener in January (9th in Big South history) and was part the 4x400m relay squad at the USC Indoor Open in February that took second overall at 3:48.65.
 
For the Women's Track Athlete of the Year award, Chloe Wellings of Radford was voted as the winner and Chris Van Niekerk was as the Men's Field Athlete of the Year.
 
Finalists for the Big South's annual Track & Field awards were:
 
Women's Track Athlete of the Year: Lindsey Cooper (High Point).
 
Men's Track Athlete of the Year: DeMarr Harvey (UNC Asheville) and A'Lajuwan Robinson (High Point).
 
Women's Field Athlete of the Year: Sydney Horn (High Point), Monay James (Winthrop) and Brianna Moore (UNC Asheville).
 
Men's Field Athlete of the Year: Quentin Peterson (Gardner-Webb).