Bowerman, college track and field’s highest award in the United States.
According to reports from the United States, Makusha, who is currently a junior at Florida State University, was named for this prestigious award together with Washington State senior Jeshua Anderson and Florida junior Christian Taylor.

The finalists were chosen by the 10-person Bowerman Advisory Board based on performances during the 2011 collegiate indoor and outdoor seasons in the United States.
Only performances through the end of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships were considered.
The Bowerman award, in its third year of existence, will be presented in a ceremony at the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association convention on December 14 in San Antonio.

John Anderson, ESPN SportsCentre anchor and co-host of ABC’s Wipeout, will host the evening’s festivities for the second-straight year.
The first two male winners were Oregon distance runner Galen Rupp (2009) and decathlete Ashton Eaton (2010).

The three female finalists were expected to be named late yesterday.
Makusha was named among the three finalists for the male award after he captured NCAA outdoor titles in the 100m and long jump to become only the fourth man in Division I history to win both events at the NCAA meet.

He also ran the second leg on the Seminoles’ NCAA champion 4x400m relay and won the NCAA indoor long jump crown.
In the 100m, Makusha’s winning time of 9.89 seconds broke Ato Bolden’s collegiate and NCAA meet record of 9.92 seconds set in 1996.

He soared 27 feet, 6 3/4 inches (8.40 metres) to win the long jump event.
Both marks are national records for his native Zimbabwe.

The other finalist, Anderson joined Ralph Mann (1969-70-71) and Iowa State’s Danny Harris (1984-85-86) as the only three athletes to win a third NCAA outdoor title in the 400m hurdles.
His winning time of 48.56 seconds was more than a half-second ahead of the rest of the field.

Earlier, he posted the fifth-best time in collegiate history of 48.13 in winning his fourth straight Pac-10 crown in the 400m hurdles.
Taylor won the National Collegiate Athletic Association outdoor triple jump title with an all-time, all-conditions collegiate best mark of 58-4 3/4. The wind-aided title clincher came on the final attempt in a back-and-forth battle with teammate Will Claye.

Taylor also placed second in the triple jump at the NCAA indoor meet and qualified for both NCAA meets in the long jump. He was also a mainstay on Florida’s 4x100m and 4x400m relays at the NCAA outdoor championships.

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