EUGENE, Ore. — Three New Mexico athletes —Elise Thorner, Adva Cohen and Gracelyn Larkin — earned first-team All-America status by virtue of their top-eight performances during the final session of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. UNM earned seven meet points, good for 36th place.
Thorner took fifth place in 9 minutes, 33.99 seconds in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase while Cohen ran eighth in 9:35.60. Courtney Wayment of BYU won in 9:16.00, shattering the meet and collegiate record set by former Lobo Courtney Frerichs (9:24.41) in 2016.
Larkin ran seventh (15:33.10) in the women’s 5,000 meters, won by North Carolina State’s Katelyn Tuohy (15:18.