EUGENE, Ore. — University of New Mexico track & field athlete Josh Kerr advanced to the finals of the men's 1,500-meter run Wednesday as the Lobos opened the 2016 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
Kerr, a freshman from Edinburgh, Scotland, posted a new personal-record time of 3 minutes, 41.08 seconds in the preliminary round of the men's 1,500 to qualify to Friday's final of the event at Hayward Field in Eugene.
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He was one of three Lobos that competed on the first day of the four-day meet, with Elmar Engholm and Allan Hamilton both seeing action in the opening day of the men's championship.