NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference has awarded University of South Alabama track and field senior Joey Torres with his second Male Field Athlete of the Week honor of the season, as announced by the league office on Thursday.
 
Torres earned the honor after he set a new personal-best, school record and Puerto Rican national record in the men’s discus with an SBC-leading 56.23-meter measure last Saturday at the USA Invitational. Torres, born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, surpassed the country’s previous record of 56.20m set by Alfredo Romero in 2002 in San Juan.
 
The 2008 Navarre (Fla.) High School grad threw further than any collegian in the event, which followed a third-place collegiate hammer throw finish (54.28m) on Friday.
 
Torres’s first weekly conference honor of the season came after he won the FSU Relays hammer throw on a season-best mark of 58.62m and finished runner-up in the discus throw (54.31m).
 
USA will travel to Auburn this weekend for the War Eagle Invitational. In four career outdoor competitions on the plains, Torres has never finished outside the top 10 in either the discus or hammer throws.
 
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