PORTLAND, ORE. – Marc Mercier and Joshua Caleb from the University of Alaska Anchorage swept the GNAC Men's Track and Field Athlete of the Week honors Monday.

Mercier has gotten his season off to a strong start, leading the conference in the long jump with a provisional qualifying mark of 23-8.75 feet (7.23 meters). That jump has Mercier tied for 24th on the Division II performance list, and it was the sixth-best long jump in conference history.

Caleb clocked a GNAC-record time of 47.22 seconds in the 400 meters at last week's UW Indoor Preview, racing to the second-fastest time in Division II so far this season. That topped the record of 47.61 seconds run by Simon Fraser's Vladislav Tsygankov in 2017, as Caleb set his third conference record of the campaign. In the previous week's meet in Reno, Nev., Caleb ran 6.57 seconds in the 60 meters and 20.86 seconds in the 200 meters. Both times shattered his own GNAC records of 6.70 seconds and 21.18 seconds which he set as a freshman in 2024. In addition to being second nationally in the 400 meters, Caleb sits atop the Division II performance lists in both the 60 meters and 200 meters. In 2023-24 Caleb became the first male freshman to win the GNAC Male Athlete of the Year award.

Alaska Anchorage will compete at the Nevada Invite Jan. 23-25.