BYU’s Kenneth Rooks competes within the steeplechase closing on the 2022 NCAA Outside Monitor and Subject Championships on June 10, 2022. BYU Picture
BYU’s Kenneth Rooks got here inside one second of erasing a 45-year-old college document in the course of the finals of the three,000-meter steeplechase on the NCAA monitor and area championships on Friday night. That was the excellent news. The unhealthy information: That earned him no higher than a sixth-place end.
The primary seven finishers ran personal-best occasions and produced the seven quickest collegiate occasions within the nation this season. The race was received by Jap Kentucky’s Ahmed Jaziri, a junior from Tunisia who clocked 8:18.70; the subsequent two finishers have been timed in 8:18.88 and the subsequent two finishers 8:20.06 and eight:20.29. After which got here Rooks.
His time of 8:22.56 is the second quickest time ever run by a BYU athlete, lower than a second in need of the time produced by four-time Olympian and former American document holder Henry Marsh – 8:21.60 set in 1977. Till Rooks got here alongside this season, no BYU athlete had come inside 8 ½ seconds of Marsh’s document. Rooks, a sophomore from Washington who returned from a church mission final fall, additionally clocked 8:24.88 within the semifinals on Wednesday.
On the ultimate day of a two-day competitors for the lads, BYU additionally picked up factors from Colten Yardley, a senior from Syracuse who positioned seventh within the 400-meter hurdles with a time of fifty.10. The race was received by LSU’s Sean Burrell with a time of 48.70.
Teammate Casey Clinger, a sophomore from American Fork, positioned tenth within the 5,000-meter run with a time of 13:33.20. It was his second race in three days. He completed twelfth within the 10,000-meter closing on Wednesday. The 5,000 was received by Wisconsin’s Olin Hacker with a time of 13:27.73.
The BYU males’s workforce, which was ranked No. 4 within the nationwide polls coming into the meet, completed in a six-way tie for thirty ninth place within the workforce race with eight factors. Their prime finishers have been sixth-place finishes by Rooks and pole vaulter Zach McWhorter.
Within the lone ladies’s occasion of the day, BYU’s Halley Folsom completed the primary day of the two-day heptathlon in 14th place with 2,473 factors. Anna Corridor of Florida was the frontrunner, with 2,856 factors. Folsom produced marks of 13.97 within the 100-meter hurdles, 5-6 ½ within the excessive leap and 38-8 ¾ within the shot put. The occasion will conclude Saturday.
The ladies return for his or her closing day of competitors Saturday. Following Ashton Riner’s win within the javelin on Thursday, BYU is favored to choose up one other win when Courtney Wayment competes within the 3,000-meter steeplechase Saturday. She has by far the quickest time within the nation this season.