{"id":238165,"date":"2026-01-14T20:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/238165\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:55:09","slug":"beckmon-named-big-ten-field-athlete-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/238165\/","title":{"rendered":"Beckmon Named Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>ROSEMONT, Ill. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/fightingillini.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/sophia-beckmon\/15475\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15475\" target=\"_blank\">Sophia Beckmon<\/a> was named the Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week the conference announced on Wednesday (Jan. 14). The last Illinois Big Ten Indoor Field Athlete of the Week was <a href=\"https:\/\/fightingillini.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/tori-thomas\/14875\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14875\" target=\"_blank\">Tori Thomas<\/a> on Jan. 29, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This honor comes on the heels of her performance last weekend at the Illini Open as she recorded the current world lead mark in the women&#8217;s long jump at 6.81m (22-4 1\/4). This mark not only leads the world but the NCAA and Big Ten as well while also being the new UI Armory record. She now has the 15th-best career-high long jump in\u00a0women&#8217;s NCAA Indoor history and it&#8217;s the\u00a022nd-furthest overall performance. After meet one, the two-time All-American has almost undoubtedly punched her ticket to the\u00a0NCAA Indoor Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; ROSEMONT, Ill. \u2013 Sophia Beckmon was named the Big Ten Field Athlete of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-238165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}