Heading into Tuesday’s Long Track Olympic Trials at the Pettit Center in Milwaukee, Marquette junior Emery Lehman had an idea of what the winning time for the 5,000-meter race would be. “A good race for someone will be someone doing 30-second laps most of the way,” Lehman said. “I think if someone is doing 31 (second laps), that won’t be the winning time.”
He hit it exactly on the head and even succeeded his own expectations, winning the 5K with a time of 6:27.90, a personal best at the Pettit Center.
A junior in the College of Engineering, Lehman was in the sixth of seven heats Tuesday.