ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Navy track and field student-athlete Clayton Thompson (Corpus Christi, Texas) has been selected as this week's Naval Academy Athletic Association (NAAA) Athlete of the Week, presented by Northrop Grumman.
 
Thompson was named Patriot League Men's Highest Point Scorer, winning a pair of events (10 points each), while scoring points in two other events for a meet-best 24 points, which was 9.8-percent of Navy's 245 points. As a team, Navy scored more points on the men's side (245 pts) in the conference meet than any other Division I school in the country, and as a collective team, the Mids scored more points combined between the men's and women's side (449.5 pts) in the conference meet than any other Division I school in the country.
 
The junior earned First Team All-Patriot League in the 60m hurdles and the heptathlon, winning both events.
 
Thompson scored the sixth-most points in Navy history in the heptathlon to win the event with an overall score of 5,259 points by a of 118 points over second place.
 
The Corpus Christi, Texas native advanced to the finals of the 60m hurdles with a time of 7.98, which is the ninth best time in Navy history. Thompson remains the only Mid in program history to run a sub-8.00 in the 60m hurdles, accomplishing the feat 10 times this season. In the finals, he clocked a 8.01 to win the event by three-hundredths of a second.
 
In addition, Thompson competed in the long jump and pole vault, earning seventh-place points (2 points each) towards Navy's overall score.
 
Navy begins competition in the outdoor season this weekend as the Midshipmen head to California for a pair of meets over Spring Break, starting with the San Diego Colligate Challenge on Saturday, March 7.