CHICAGO – Junior Connor Whalen (Burbank, Ill./Reavis) was named the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) Men's Field Athlete of the Week for the Saint Xavier University men's track & field team when the awards were announced by the league office Wednesday evening. It is his first career CCAC Field Athlete of the Week Award.

• Whalen broke his own program record in the Hammer with a distance of 56.80m at the Raleigh Relays hosted by North Carolina State University last week in Raleigh, N.C.
• His mark hit the NAIA 'B' Standard, and is the third-best throw in the NAIA so far this season.

Saint Xavier makes the trip to Bourbonnais, Ill. to take part in the Olivet Nazarene University (Ill.) Tiger Open on Thursday, April 2.