ST. LOUIS - Drake junior Travis Marsh (Ankeny, Iowa) was named MVC Male Track Athlete of the Week, the league office announced Wednesday.

Marsh ran a season best time of 8.15 in the men's 60-meter hurdles Friday, Feb. 15, at the Iowa Invite hosted by the University of Iowa. His time was the sixth best mark in the conference this season. He also holds the top six times for the Bulldogs in the event this season.

"Travis has worked really hard this year to improve his mark," Drake head coach Natasha Kaiser-Brown said. "His time has dropped considerably since last year."

Marsh's time of 8.15 is a full three-tenths of a second faster than the 8.45 mark he ran at the 2012 MVC Indoor Championships.

Along with his success on the track, Marsh excels in the classroom in one of the most difficult programs at Drake University. A junior athletically, he holds a P1 standing in the school of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and plans to graduate with a Doctorate of Pharmacy in the spring of 2016.

"He is an outstanding student and I could not ask for a better overall student-athlete," Kaiser-Brown said.

Marsh will look to improve his time and help spur the Bulldogs to a top finish at the MVC Indoor Championships this Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 23 and 24 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Live results can be followed from a link at godrakebulldogs.com.