COLONIA, NJ – Holy Family senior Nishorn Pierre (Philadelphia, PA) and District of Columbia junior Kayla Cooper (Brooklyn, NY) have been selected the 2025 ECC Indoor Track and Field Championships Most Outstanding Athletes for their respective genders, as voted on by the league’s head coaches and announced on Friday morning.
Pierre won a pair of gold medals in the jump events at the ECC Men’s Indoor Track and Field Championship on Sunday. The Holy Family junior broke the meet record in the triple jump with an NCAA Provisional Mark of 15.16m, which tops the ECC, ranks second in the NCAA East Region, and sits seventh across all of NCAA Division II. Pierre also scored in the long jump with a fifth-place finish (6.81m) as the junior accumulated 22 points for Holy Family, who won the meet (147 points) for the third year in a row.
Cooper took home three gold medals at the ECC Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championship on Sunday, boasting PRs in the 60m, 200m, and long jump, and went on to earn bronze as the second leg of the third-place 4x400m relay. The UDC junior opened the championship meet with a 60m prelims time of 7.92 and an event-winning 7.67 in the final; that mark ranks second in the ECC and third in the NCAA East Region and missed the NCAA Provisional Mark by just .04 seconds. Cooper then made her way over to the long jump, where she posted an NCAA Provisional Mark of 5.73m; this event-winning mark tops the ECC, ranks third in the NCAA East Region, and ranks 42nd across all of NCAA Division II. In the 200m, Cooper clocked an event-winning 25.25, which tops the ECC and ranks fourth in the NCAA East Region. The ECC Female Athlete of the Meet totaled 30 individual points in addition to the six points from the relay to lead the Firebirds to a third-place team finish (100 points).
The ECC previously announced its All-Conference honorees based on finishing place at the championship meet. Those honorees can be found here (men's) and here (women's).
Following the conclusion of the upcoming Last Chance meets, the 2025 ECC Indoor Track & Field Athletes of the Year will be announced in early March.