INDIANAPOLIS – With his top 10 finish Friday morning at the NCAA South Regional, University of South Alabama cross country runner Kirami Yego earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships set to be held next weekend in Tallahassee, Fla., as announced by the NCAA on Saturday.
Yego crossed the line with a time of 29:42.89 and finished eighth in the 10k race regional hosted by North Alabama at the John Hunt Cross Country Running Park. Yego's time marked the sixth-fastest in the distance in program history, eclipsing David Kimani's time of 30:06 set at the NCAA Championships (11/22/99) in Bloomington, Ind.