Eastern Illinois University Athletics

Dhiaa Dean from women's track and Grace Lennox from women's basketball have been named the Back To Health EIU student-athletes of the week.

Dean turned in a pair of top performances at the Indiana Relays over the weekend.  She came less than two seconds from resetting her previous EIU school record mark in the 600m run as she won the event with a time of 1:34.19.  Dean also won the 400m first section with a time of 56.19 which now ranks third on the EIU career top ten list.

Lennox averaged 15 points per game for the week as EIU picked up a home win over Murray State.  In that game she scored a career high 17 points with seven assists.  On Saturday against SIUE she scored 13 points with five assists.  Lennox shot 68.8 percent from the field for the week.