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EUGENE – Colorado women's track and field sophomore Emily Covert opened the 2022 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships for the women with a fourth-place finish in the 10,000-meter run final here Thursday evening.
Covert picked up a First Team All-American honor, the first for her outdoors, after running 33:14.64. Her teammate India Johnson earned a Second Team All-American honor finishing 10th in the race in 33:34.93.
The race was a bizarre one with a story of two halves. The first half saw Covert along with 22 other women losing sight of Washington's Haley Herberg who set out a blistering pace through the first 5,000-meters, built a lead as large as 130 meters in the process.