A pair of national champions and two additional NCAA Championship medalists head up the list of 2018-19 Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Track and Field season honorees announced on Tuesday.
 
NCAA men’s triple jump gold medalist Jordan Scott of Virginia and women’s pentathlon winner Michelle Atherley of Miami were selected as the ACC Indoor Field Performers of the Year in a vote of the league’s head coaches.
 
A pair of Florida State sprinters swept ACC Track Performer of the Year accolades as Kasaun James was recognized on the men’s side and Ka’Tia Seymour claimed women’s honors.
 
Another FSU sprinter also claimed the Men’s Freshman of the Year award as Bryand Rincher received the nod. The coaches tabbed NC State’s Timara Chapman as the ACC Women’s Freshman of the Year.
 
FSU’s Bob Braman was voted the ACC Men’s Coach of the Year after directing the Seminoles to the ACC co-championship and a share of sixth place at the NCAA Championships. Miami’s Amy Deem earned Women’s ACC Coach of the Year after leading the Hurricanes to the ACC title and a tie for 15th place in team scoring at the NCAAs.
 
Virginia’s Scott had already pieced together a memorable season before his first-place triple jump at the NCAA finals on March 9. The Portmore, Jamaica, junior’s mark of 16.90 meters on Feb. 9 at the Tiger Paw Invite set a new ACC record. He followed up with a gold medal distance of 16.31 meters at the ACC Championships two weeks later and added a bronze medal with a mark of 7.58 meters in the long jump.
 
Scott recorded the first NCAA indoor field championship for the Virginia men’s track and field team in school history with a jump of 16.89m (55-5) that set a Birmingham CrossPlex record. He was the only competitor to reach 55 feet in the event, clearing the mark twice in the six-round series. 
 
Miami’s Atherley earned a spot on the Bowerman Outdoor Preseason Watch List following her eye-opening performances at the ACC Indoor Championships and NCAA finals. The North Port, Florida, senior earned field MVP honors at the ACCs after amassing a meet-record 4,498 points in the pentathlon, along with a bronze medal in the high jump and a fourth-place finish in the 60-meter hurdles.
 
Atherley then pieced together a gold medal pentathlon score of 4,547 at the NCAA finals that set a new overall ACC record. Atherley claimed Miami's seventh indoor national title while becoming the 11th different Hurricane to win an NCAA crown and the 10th woman to do so.


 
Florida State’s James and Seymour each earned Track MVP honors at the ACC Championships, and the positive momentum carried over to the NCAA finals.
 
James, a junior transfer from Arkansas Baptist, took the silver medal in the NCAA men’s 200 meters with a time of 20.56 – matching his gold medal time from two weeks earlier at the ACC Championships. He added an eighth-place showing of 6.67 in the 60-meter dash to become first Seminole to earn first-team All-American honors in two individual events since Maurice Mitchell in 2012.
 
James, who ranked among the nation’s top five in both the 60 and 200 meters throughout the indoor season, brought home three gold medals from the ACC finals, also placing first in the 60 meters (6.61) and running an anchor leg of just more than 46 seconds on FSU’s winning 4x400 relay team.
 
After winning gold medals in both the women’s 60 and 200 meters at the ACC Championships, Seymour raced to a bronze medal in the NCAA 60 meters finals, checking in with a time of 7.19.
 
Seymour’s finish was the best by an FSU women’s sprinter since Tonya Carter won the 60-meter national title in 2000, and the best in any event by a Seminole since Colleen Quigley was third in the mile in 2015. The Palatka, Florida, sophomore’s NCAA time was a lifetime best, bettering her 7.21 showing that ranked seventh nationally during the regular season.


 
The Seminoles’ Rincher also made his mark as a sprinter during his first collegiate season. After ranking ninth nationally in the 60 meters during the regular season with a time of 6.59, the Fort Lauderdale freshman placed fourth in the event at the ACC Championships, then took home a silver medal in the 200 meters with a time of 21.07. From there, Rincher went on earn first-team All-America honors in the 60 meters at NCAAs with a fifth-place time of 6.60.
 
NC State’s Chapman recorded a podium finish at the ACC Championships with a bronze-medal finish in the pentathlon. Her 3,813 point total netted first-team All-ACC honors, sits as second all-time in the NC State record books and ranked 44^th nationally. In the final event, Chapman set one of three personal-bests (shot put, long jump, 800m), clocking a 2:19.11 in the 800m. 
 
Chapman, a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, had earlier posted a pentathlon score of 3,538 that ranked second on NC State’s all-time list until she bettered her own mark.

The ACC Men’s Coach of the Year honor is 23rd overall for Braman, who has also been recognized in Men’s Outdoor Track and Field, Women’s Outdoor Track and Field, and Men’s Cross Country during his tenure in Tallahassee.
 
Florida State’s 24 points in this year’s NCAA Men’s Indoor Championship was the program’s best since 2014. By sharing sixth place with Texas Tech, FSU authored the seventh-best finish in program history with their eighth-highest point total at the meet.
 
Miami’s Deem was recognized for the fifth time as the ACC Women’s Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year and picked up her eighth conference coaching honor overall. In addition to being previously being named ACC Indoor Women’s Coach of the Year in 2005, 2006, 2016 and 2017, Deem earned the same honor for ACC Outdoors in 2005, 2006 and last spring.
 
In addition to Atherely’s pentathlon gold medal, the Hurricanes’ 4x400 women’s relay team took seventh place at the NCAA finals, bolstering Deem’s squad to its second top-15 national finish in three seasons.

Men’s Indoor Track Performer of the Year – Kasaun James, Florida State
Women’s Indoor Track Performer of the Year – Ka’Tia Seymour, Florida State
Men’sIndoor  Field Performer of the Year – Jordan Scott, Virginia
Women’s Indoor Field Performer of the Year – Michelle Atherley, Miami
Men’s indoor Freshman of the Year – Bryand Rincher, Florida State
Women’sIndoor  Freshman of the Year – Timara Chapman, NC State
Men’s Indoor Coach of the Year – Bob Braman, Florida State
Women’s Indoor Coach of the Year – Amy Deem, Miami