(NEW ORLEANS) — For the second straight year, Central Missouri track and field athlete Heavin Warner has been named the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Central Region Field Athlete of the Year.

Warner will be competing in three events at this week’s National Championships in Bradenton, Florida, and ranks in the top-three in Division II in all three events. She will be looking to defend her back-to-back hammer throw championships, and will also throw the shot put and discus.

Warner was the MIAA champion in the hammer throw earlier this month and took second in the discus and third in the shot put.

The St. Joseph, Missouri, native was also selected as a finalist for the MIAA’s Ken B. Jones Award. The annual award, in its 23rd year, is given out to the top male and female athletes in the conference.

A 15-member panel of athletics directors, senior woman administrators, faculty athletics representatives and sports information directors, including a representative from each member institution, select the finalists.

Each nominee is judged in four areas: 2015-2016 athletic accomplishments; career academic accomplishments; 2015-2016 campus/community service; and career athletic and service achievements.

To be nominated, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.25 cumulative grade-point average as of Feb. 1, and must have completed at least their junior season of eligibility in the 2015-16 academic year.

Warner was also a finalist in 2015 as a junior. The winners will be announced June 1 at the MIAA Awards Ceremony held at the Kansas City Public Library-Plaza Branch.