NEW ORLEANS - The United State Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association announced its 2019 Indoor National Award Winners. The Grizzlies had a pair of Coaches earn national recognition for the 2019 indoor track & field season.

Head Coach Damon Martin was named the National Women's Head Coach of the Year, while Assistant Coach Dustin Imdieke was named the National Women's Assistant Coach of the Year. The coaches earned their national accolades after guiding the Grizzly women to a Indoor National Championship.

In his 26th season of leading the Grizzlies, coach Martin won his second career National Women's Indoor Coach of the Year. He earned the award after helping the Grizzlies run away with the women's crown. This is the women's second title in the last three years.

Adams State recorded 87 points overall, the most scored by a program since 2012 and it is a program record for the Grizzlies. Helping the Grizzlies secure the national title was three individual national champions and the Distance Medley Relay crown. In all, 11 women scored for the Grizzlies en route to the national championship.

This is coach Martin's second overall National Coach of the Year award as he won it back in 2004 as well.

Imdieke is in second year overall with the Grizzlies track & field program and leading the sprint squad. His award is the first time in program history that an Adams State assistant coach has won it and it is rightfully so after helping make tremendous improvements to the Grizzlies sprint squad.

Under his two tutelage, two speedsters, Kandace Thomas and Dianna Johnson, spent the indoor season etching their names constantly into the Division II record books. Thomas tied the all-time record in the 60m dash earlier in the year at the RMAC Championships, while Johnson posted the third-fastest time in the event.

On the national stage, Johnson three-peated in winning the 60, while Thomas secured a national crown in the 200m dash. Imdieke's sprints group had four entries into NCAA national meet overall.