St. Lawrence University's Divya Biswal has been named the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association outdoor Field Athlete of the Year for 2015.

Biswal, who earned All America nine straight times in the jumps and was 2015 NCAA Division III long jump champion and runner-up outdoors in the triple jump last weekend, becomes the second Saint athlete to win a national athlete of the year award from the USTFCCCA. Wendy Pavlus was the 2011 indoor Track Athlete of the Year.

In addition to Biswal's national honor, the Saint women's track and field program matched its best finish ever in the Deb Vercauteren Program of the Year standings for Division III teams which participated in the NCAA Division III cross country, indoor and outdoor track championships. The Saints, third in cross country, 18th in indoor track and eighth in outdoor track, finished fifth in the 2014-15 program of the year standings for the second straight year.

Biswal completed her SLU career with a personal best to win a national championship on her home runway when she won the long jump with a leap of 5.95 meters and it took a meet record to beat her in the triple jump, an event in which she was the defending champion.

The Liberty League and New York State Collegiate Track Conference champion in both the long and triple jumps and the 100 meter hurdles, she completes her SLU career with program records in the long and triple jumps indoors and outdoors, the 60 and 100 hurdles and as part of a record-setting 4x200 relay. She had a total of 31 individual championships and six relay titles between the Liberty League and NYSCTC and her nine All America awards are the second most in Saint women's program history.