{"id":258158,"date":"2026-05-04T19:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258158\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:47:21","slug":"emerson-howard-named-miami-athletes-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258158\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerson, Howard Named Miami Athletes of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For their performances last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/avery-emerson\/10532\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10532\" target=\"_blank\">Avery Emerson<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/matthew-howard\/10544\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10544\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Howard<\/a>\u00a0are Miami&#8217;s Athletes of the Week, presented by Skyline Chili for the week of May 4.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Avery Emerson\" day=\"field=\" height=\"225\" hockey=\"media=\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Emerson__Avery.jpg\" style=\"display: inline-block;\" tretter=\"data-airgap-id=58\" width=\"150\"\/><br \/>\nFemale Winner: <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/avery-emerson\/10532\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10532\" target=\"_blank\">Avery Emerson<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/avery-emerson\/10532\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10532\" target=\"_blank\">Avery Emerson<\/a>, the senior RedHawk, secured a third-place finish in the 800m dash at the Jessie Owens Classic. Her run of 2:07.13 is ranked second in the MAC, 0.07 seconds behind first.\u00a0 This run is third all-time in Miami&#8217;s program history. She also contributed to the RedHawks 4&#215;400 relay, where the team took third place. Emerson\u00a0is from Cincinnati, Ohio, she is studying Marketing in the Farmer School of Business.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matthew Howard\" day=\"finn=football=hs=\" drobac=\"baskeball=data-airgap-id=59\" giampa=\"hs=\" height=\"225\" media=\"mens=\" posed=\"team=\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Howard__Matthew.jpg\" style=\"display: inline-block;\" width=\"150\"\/><br \/>\nMale Winner: <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/matthew-howard\/10544\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10544\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Howard<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/matthew-howard\/10544\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10544\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Howard<\/a> won the javelin throw with a mark of 63.58m at the Jessie Owens Classic. This mark leads the MAC and is 99th in D1 NCAA this season. This mark is also the third-best for a RedHawk ever.\u00a0A senior thrower from Dublin, Ohio, he\u00a0is majoring in Finance\/Business Analytics in the Farmer School of Business.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For their performances last week, Avery Emerson\u00a0and Matthew Howard\u00a0are Miami&#8217;s Athletes of the Week, presented by Skyline Chili&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-258158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}