MADISON, Wis. — Harvard senior Graham Blanks successfully defended his NCAA Category I go nation championship Saturday as BYU turned into the primary college in additional than twenty years to seize each the boys’s and girls’s group titles.
Doris Lemngole of Alabama captured the women’s race then completing 2nd a yr in the past.
Colorado received each group titles in 2002.
Blanks completed the ten,000-meter Thomas Zimmer championship route in 28 mins, 37.2 seconds, lower than two seconds in entrance of Brandnew Mexico’s Habtom Samuel. Blanks is the thirteenth males’s runner to preserve his identify within the 86-year historical past of the race.
BYU, which received its alternative males’s identify in 2019, had 124 issues, led via the sixth-place end of Casey Clinger. Creed Thompson completed twelfth for the Cougars, who had all their scoring runners end throughout the manage 50.
Iowa Situation used to be 2nd with 137 issues, adopted via Arkansas, Wisconsin and Northern Arizona. Protecting champion Oklahoma Situation used to be 8th.
The BYU girls had 147 issues, 17 in entrance of West Virginia, for his or her 6th championship. Windfall, Northern Arizona and Oregon rounded out the manage 5. BYU received the 2020 identify ahead of NC Situation received the upcoming 3. The protecting champion Wolfpack have been 8th.
Lexy Halladay-Lowry used to be the manage finisher for the Cougars, 14th total and eleventh amongst scoring runners. BYU’s girls additionally had all of its scoring runners end throughout the manage 50.
Lemngole finished the 6,000-meter race in 19:21 with Pamela Kosgei of Brandnew Mexico 2nd in 19:27.8.
