NEW ORLEANS – The Bowerman Watch List Committee has named 10 women as Semifinalists for collegiate track & field’s highest individual honor, The Bowerman Trophy.

The Bowerman Women’s 2015 Semifinalists (Click student-athletes’ names for biographies & notes)           NAME YEAR SCHOOL EVENTS HOMETOWN Dezerea Bryant SR Kentucky Sprints Milwaukee, Wis. Quanesha Burks SO Alabama Jumps Hartselle, Ala. Kendra Harrison SR Kentucky Hurdles Clayton, N.C. Shamier Little SO Texas A&M Hurdles Chicago, Ill. Sandi Morris SR Arkansas Pole vault Greenville, S.C. Keturah Orji FR Georgia Jumps Mount Olive, N.J. Demi Payne JR Stephen F. Austin Pole vault New Braunfels, Texas Jenna Prandini JR Oregon Sprints/Jumps Clovis, Calif. Emily Sisson SR Providence Distance Chesterfield, Mo. Shelbi Vaughan JR Texas A&M Throws Mansfield, Texas   Women’s Finalists: July 9

Five women were already on the Watch List and proved their mettle at NCAAs. They were Jenna Prandini, Shelbi Vaughan, Demi Payne, Kendra Harrison, and Sandi Morris.

The other half joined the list after winning national titles in Eugene. Those five were Emily Sisson, Quanesha Burks,Dezerea Bryant, Shamier Little, and Keturah Orji.

The Committee will now vote those 10 women down to three Finalists; on July 9, the Finalists will be revealed and the voting for the Bowerman winner will begin shortly thereafter.

All 10 women won at least one NCAA title in 2015, all except for Bryant and Prandini were the outdoor conference champions in their event, and five of them set collegiate records in some way shape or form. Here are their 2015 résumés in brief.

Kentucky’s Bryant was the runner-up in both short sprints at the SEC indoor meet before taking third in the 200 and seventh in the 60 at indoor NCAAs. Outdoors, she was third in the 100 and 200 at the SEC championships before breaking out in Eugene. At the national finals, she ran the fastest low-altitude 200 in collegiate history, covering the distance in a winning time of 22.18 seconds just 45 minutes after taking third in the 100.

Her teammate Harrison won two national championships in 2015 and came a few tenths shy of winning a third. She won the 60 hurdles indoors, the 100 hurdles outdoors, and took second in the 400H outdoors. Her times in the 100 (12.50) and 60 (7.87) make her the third fastest college woman ever, trailing only Ginnie Powell and Bowerman winner Brianna Rollins in both events, and she is the fifth-fastest collegian ever in the 400H. She won SEC championships in both short hurdles.

The Texas A&M duo of Little and Vaughan made the most of their outdoor-only events. Little went unbeaten in the 400 hurdles and defended her national title in the event. Vaughan did the same in the discus. Both won their events at the SEC outdoor meet; Little also ran a leg on the Aggies’ runner-up 4×400. Little primarily focused on the flat 400 indoors, as she took fourth in the event at the NCAA indoor meet.

Vaughan ends her junior year as the fifth best women’s disc thrower ever, with a PB of 64.52m (211-8) set at this year’s SECs. And Little ends her sophomore year at No. 4 on the 400 hurdles list with her winning time of 53.74 from nationals.

Burks, like Bryant, broke out in the spring. The Alabama sophomore didn’t qualify for NCAA indoors, but she won SEC and NCAA titles in the long jump outdoors–the latter with the eighth best all-conditions jump ever. Her wind-legal personal best of 6.84m (22-5¼) makes her the sixth best performer in college history.

Arkansas’s Morris and Stephen F. Austin’s Payne shared pole vault honors in historic fashion. Morris has the indoor national title and outdoor national record; Payne has the outdoor national title and indoor national record. They have the eight best outdoor clearances ever (and nine of the best 10) by collegians outdoors–Payne has six of them–led by Morris’s 4.72m (15-5¾). Indoors, it’s roughly the same story. They have nine of the 10 best college heights ever, and all of the top eight. Payne’s 4.75m (15-7) is the record there. Both swept conference titles in the event.

Orji is the third freshman to be named a women’s semifinalist. She broke the American junior record and won SEC titles in the triple jump indoors and out, took second at indoor nationals, and won outdoor nationals. The Georgia Bulldog ranks in the top 10 in-season all time indoors and out. Her mark of 13.98m (45-10½) makes her the No. 10 indoor performer, while her winning mark of 14.15m (46-5¼) at outdoor nationals ties her for the fourth best performer ever.

In two national meets this year, Prandini scored forty-nine total points. At indoor nationals, she won the long jump, took fourth in the 60, and finished runner-up in the 200. On her home track at outdoor nationals, she won the 100 and took second in the long jump and 200. Her twenty-six points outdoors were tied for the third most in meet history and helped Oregon win its first team title in thirty years. She ranks in the top 10 all time indoors in the 60 (7.15) and 200 (22.52) and in the top five all time outdoors in the 100 (10.92) and 200 (22.21). Prandini’s time in the 100–from the Mt. SAC Relays–is the fastest ever run by a collegian at low altitude in-season.

Providence’s Sisson led the 5000s at indoor and outdoor nationals start to finish and posted historically great times in both seasons. Her 15:12.22 at the Big East meet is the collegiate indoor record (for a 200m track) and her 31:38.03 10k at Stanford is the fourth best ever by a collegian.