INDIANAPOLIS - Tiffin men's track & field has picked up two more weekly honors as Jonte Baker and Nikolas Curtiss have been named the GMAC Track and Field Athletes of the Week for Feb. 17-23.

So far in 2019-20, the Dragon men's squad has claimed 12 of the possible 18 conference athletes of the week, with four coming on the track and eight in the field events through nine weeks of competition. Baker and Curtiss are each responsible for three of those awards during this indoor season.

Baker chalked up another automatic qualifying time in his signature event, the 60-meter dash, to head into the conference meet on a high note.
 
Baker is the defending national champion in the 60m and remains the top overall seed in Division II this season with eight total student-athletes running 6.72 or faster.
 
Baker was the fastest in his preliminary and finals heat at the Silverston Invitational up at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He clocked a 6.76 in the prelims before bettering his time with a 6.70 in the finals to win the event.
 
One week after tying his overall conference record at the USATF Indoor Nationals, Baker put two more times in the top-10 of the conference record books at fifth and eighth, respectively.
 
Baker will look to beat his conference championship record time of 6.77 that he ran last year this weekend in the Heminger Center.

Like Baker, Curtiss is ramping up for the conference indoor championships as the top seed in Division II in the shot put among a total of five automatic qualifiers.
 
Two of those auto qualifiers are from the Dragons, including Jabari Bennett, and senior Eric Jackson isn't far behind in seventh while freshman Isaiah Allen is lurking in 12th among provisional qualifiers.
 
Curtiss put forth another AQ effort in the shot put at the Silverston Invitational with a distance of 19.15m (62' 10").
 
It came as no surprise that he won the event and four of the top five finishers were in the Dragons' throws crew.