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NCAA Championships
Alabama Earns Podium Finishes in Five Events on Final Day of NCAA Track and Field Indoor Championships
3/12/2023 1:05:00 AM | Track & Field, Cross Country
The Crimson Tide won silver, bronze in the women’s mile, men’s 200-meter final
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – On the final day of the NCAA Indoor Championships, the Alabama track and field teams reached the podium in every event represented by a Crimson Tide athlete.
Flomena Asekol started off the final day of the national meet by claiming bronze in the women's mile (4:35.18) to earn first team All-American status. Later, Tarsis Orogot would win silver for Alabama as the first team All-American ran 20.20 in the 200-meter final to secure the top-two finish. Despite winning his heat, Orogot would walk away as the national runner up due to a faster time getting clocked in the event's first section of 200-meter finalists. The finish gave the Crimson Tide its fifth overall medal of the weekend and third silver medal across the two-day meet.
Triple jumper Christian Edwards became a first team All-American after his 16.33-meter (53-7) jump Saturday evening. The men's 4x400-meter relay squad (Chris Robinson, Demetrius Jackson, Orogot, Khaleb McRae) also earned first team All-American honors for UA after their eighth-place finish (3:04.42) in the event. Alabama would protest that interference caused by another team impacted its slower finish in the 4x4, but the protest would be denied. Distance-running duo Hilda Olemomoi and Mercy Chelangat hit the track again, this time for the women's 3,000-meter final. The pair earned first and second team All-American honors, respectively, a day after finishing second-third in the 5,000-meter race.
Alabama finished in the top 10 of both respective team standings, with the women finishing tied in seventh and the men ending tied in ninth.
Crimson Tide Top Finishes
- Asekol won the first medal of the day after finishing third in the women's mile (4:35.18) to claim first team All-American honors
- Olemomoi (fifth, 9:15.26) and Chelangat (11th, 9:19.33) earned first and second team All-American honors, respectively, in the women's 3,000-meter race
- Edwards finished seventh in the men's triple jump (16.33m | 53-7) to claim first team All-American status
- Orogot's second-place finish in the men's 200-meter final secured the Crimson Tide its fifth medal of the weekend, as well as first team All-American honors
- Robinson, Jackson, Orogot and McRae all earned first team All-American status after their eighth-place finish in the men's 4x400-meter relay (3:04.42)
Up Next
- Alabama will take a week off before beginning its outdoor season in Starkville, Miss., for the Bulldog Relays, March 24-25
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