INDIANAPOLIS - The Great Midwest Athletic Conference announced the weekly award winners for track & field for the week of Dec. 9-15, and Tiffin's Jonte Baker and Nikolas Curtiss swept the honors.

The fastest man in Division II was at it again at the Tiffin-hosted Alumni Open, blazing to an auto-qualifying time in the 60-meter dash, Baker's signature event as the defending NCAA Division II champion.
 
Baker clocked the third fastest time in conference history in the finals with a 6.72; the only times better were his preliminary and finals attempts at nationals last year.
 
Baker won the event and also posted a 6.76 in the prelims. The senior still possesses nine of the top 10 times in the 60-meter dash among all Great Midwest runners.
 
Baker also won the 200-meter dash in 22.19 seconds in a field of 25 total runners.
 
Early in the indoor season, Baker ranks No. 2 nationally in the 60-meter dash only behind Mason Phillips of Northwood (MI). Baker and Phillips are the only two to hit an automatic qualifying mark so far.
 
After qualifying for nationals as a sophomore in both the shot put and weight throw, Curtiss is primed for another great season as one of the nation's elite hurlers.
 
Curtiss finished fourth in the shot put at nationals in 2019 and backed that up with some impressive marks in his season-opening effort at the Tiffin Alumni Open.
 
Curtiss, with teammate Jabari Bennett, auto qualified in shot put – the only two in Division II to do so this season.
 
Curtiss finished second to Bennett with a distance of 18.45m (60' 6.5"). He proceeded to win the weight throw at 17.82m (58' 5.75") with a provisional qualifying distance.
 
Curtiss now ranks 15th among all throwers in DII in the weight throw.