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Yazmine Wright wins individual title at American Championships, men’s finish in second place

Yazmine Wright won her first ever AAC Individual championship in the women’s 6K with a time of 21:03.30 She finished 15 seconds in front of the second place finisher which went to SMU. Wright finished 5th overall in the conference championship last year. As a team, the women’s team finished in sixth place.

Winny Koskei won the conference championship last year for the Shockers which would make it the second year in a row the women have won an individual conference championship.

Wright said she felt like she needed to step up for the women to earn a championship after losing Koskei to graduation.