BYU’s Casey Clinger accepts his second-place trophy on the NCAA Indoor Monitor and Area Championships on March 10, 2023. BYU Photograph
For 4 years Casey Clinger, the junior from BYU by way of American Fork Excessive, has set data and received honors, however one factor had eluded him: He had by no means earned first-team All-American honors in observe and area — till this weekend.
On Friday evening, Clinger completed second within the 5,000-meter run on the NCAA Indoor Monitor and Area Championships, simply his finest efficiency in a nationwide championships race.
Clinger completed with a time of 13:38.12, which left him lower than one second behind Tennessee’s Dylan Jacobs (13:37.59). Clinger’s teammate, sophomore Joey Nokes, was tenth, clocking 14:01.43.
That efficiency added to Clinger’s rising legacy at BYU, which has a protracted custom of manufacturing standout distance runners. Clinger holds indoor college data at 3,000 and 5,000 meters and the out of doors college file at 5,000 meters
In the meantime, the College of Utah’s Emily Venters, a senior from Lawrence, Kan., completed fifth within the ladies’s 5,000-meter race, with a time of 16:25.28. She ran aggressively from the beginning and led a lot of the race.
The race was received by North Carolina State’s sophomore sensation Katelyn Tuohy with a time of 16:09.65. Tuohy has already set nationwide collegiate data this winter within the mile, the 1,500 and the three,000.
BYU’s Aubrey Frentheway was twelfth with a time of 16:38.77.
Venters turns into the simply the fourth observe athlete from the College of Utah to earn All-America honors within the NCAA indoor championships. She tied for the varsity’s finest particular person end ever on this meet.
BYU’s Claire Seymour superior to Saturday’s finals within the 800-meter run. She had the fourth-fastest time in Friday’s trials, 2:02.92. Seymour positioned second in final 12 months’s NCAA indoor championships.
BYU’s Caleb Witsken positioned sixth within the pole vault with a clearance of 18-4 3/4. BYU positioned seventh and eight within the ladies’s and males’s distance medley relay, respectively.
In different native information, BYU freshman Riley Chamberlain was fifteenth within the trials of the mile and didn't advance to in the present day’s finals. BYU’s Cailee Faulkner no-heighted within the pole vault.