NEW ORLEANS, LA-On the heels of his third national championship and sixth All-America honor, senior Jon Garcia (Stoneham, Mass./Stoneham HS) has earned another honor.

Garcia has been named NCAA Division III New England Men’s Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. He is one of eight regional award winners.

“The honor is well-deserved,” said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Jon Hird. “I don’t think that there are any male track and field athletes in New England who are more deserving than Jon.”

Garcia received the award on the basis of a vote of the coaches in the region. He earned his third national championship and sixth All-America honor when he finished first in the 55 meter hurdles at the NCAA Division III Championships at the Ohio Northern University Sports Center last Saturday. Garcia is the first Corsair student-athlete to win three national championships, and his six All-America honors ties him with distance runner Jim White, who received his last award in 1986, and diver Tom Egan, who received his final honor in 1992. Both White and Egan won two national titles and received All-American honors six times.