NATCHITOCHES – Supporters of USA Olympic track and field hopeful Trecey Rew-Hoover, who won the 2011 NCAA women's discus championship, can contribute to a fund set up to help with her travel expenses to next month's USA Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., June 19-July 1.
 
More than $1,000 has already been raised toward a goal of about $3,500 to help with airfare, lodging, meals and transportation as Rew-Hoover, who married over the winter, will compete in both the shot put and the discus in hopes of making the Team USA roster for the Summer Olympic Games in London.
 
Donations are being accepted to the Trecey Rew-Hoover OIympic Trial Fund” at the Bank of Montgomery in Natchitoches.
 
Rew-Hoover won the NCAA discus title with a school record 192-4 throw last June 8. She also earned second-team All-America honors in the shot put by finishing 15^th at the 2011 NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa.
 
She was also named the 2011 NCAA Division I Field Events Women's Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

After graduating in May 2010 with a 3.86 grade point average in broadcast journalism, Rew-Hoover posted a perfect 4.0 in her first year pursuing a master's degree in sport administration.

Rew-Hoover was voted to the Capital One Academic All-America Track and Cross Country Team as a second-team Academic All-America selection.  Rew-Hoover earned the 13^th Academic All-America Award by an NSU student-athlete since 1986. Voting for Academic All-America is done by a national CoSIDA committee, which considers first-team All-District winners from eight regions around the nation.

The Garland, Texas native became the first Lady Demon to capture a national title. She gave the Northwestern track and field program its third NCAA crown and first since 1990.

Rew-Hoover swept the 2011 Southland Conference Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Student-Athlete of the Year honors. She finished her career with eight individual Southland titles, winning the conference Field Event Athlete of the Year award in the final three SLC championships she entered.

She is a three-time All-America recipient in the sport by virtue of her finishes in the shot put and discus at the last two NCAA Outdoor Championships. She was ninth in the 2010 NCAA meet in the shot put.

The school and Southland Conference record holder in both events, she had collegiate bests of 192-4 in the discus and 57-0 ¼ in the shot. Competing against some of the world's top competitors last summer at the USA Track and Field Championships, Rew-Hoover finished seventh in the discus and 15^th in the shot put.