Ellingson, a senior, was named the Most Valuable Women's Track Performer at the 2011 Iowa Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships. Ellingson won the 800 (2:18.32) and the mile (4:57.97), and anchored Simpson’s fourth-place 4x400-meter relay (4:13.98). The title in the mile was her third in four years (2008, 2010-11), while she pulled off the 800/mile double for the second consecutive year.
Special mention — Keelie Finnel, Coe; Nevada Morrison, Wartburg
