Alabama Men Post Fifth-Consecutive Top-15 Finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships – University of Alabama Athletics

EUGENE, Ore. – The Alabama monitor and area males’s staff completed robust on Friday to take eleventh place on the 2022 NCAA Outside Championships at Hayward Discipline on the College of Oregon campus. The Crimson Tide scored 21 factors over two days of males’s competitors, end only one level out of a tie for ninth place.  

This 12 months’s end marked the Alabama males’s fifth-consecutive top-15 end and 18th in program historical past on the NCAA Outside Championships.

The Tide closed the meet with Leander Forbes, Demetrius Jackson, Corde Lengthy and Khaleb McRae utilizing their second school-record run in a row to take third place within the last of the 4×400-meter relay with a 3:00.17, incomes First Workforce All-America recognition. It was Alabama’s finest end within the 4×400-meter relay since taking second in 1985.

After coming into the championships because the No. 12 seed, and into the championship finals because the ninth seed, Tarsis Orogot blasted a 20.48 within the 200-meter finals to take fifth place and earn First Workforce All-America honors. Orogot’s occasions was simply off his career-best of 20.32, which he set within the semifinals spherical on Wednesday, whereas his end was the Tide’s finest on the out of doors nationwide championships since Jereem Richards was third in 2017.

With the lads’s meet within the books, the Crimson Tide ladies look to shut out their championship run robust on Saturday.

Alabama Head Coach Dan Waters Stated

“I am actually happy with the best way we made probably the most of our alternatives tonight. Tarsis got here in because the No. 12 seed within the 200 meters, made it into the finals after ending ninth within the semfinals after which raced onerous and moved as much as fifth tonight. It was the identical with Leander, Demetrius, Corde and Khaleb within the 4×400, coming in with the 14th finest time and utilizing back-to-back faculty data to complete third, our greatest end because the mid-80s. We’re additionally tremendous happy with Bobby (Colantion Jr.) and Isaac (Odugbesan) for scoring factors on the primary day, and of everybody who made it to this meet. We have now simply an incredible roster constructed for subsequent 12 months. To not accomplish a few of the targets we had was a bit robust, however figuring out we now have an important roster subsequent 12 months energizes the entire program. I believe generally you need to come away from a meet like this a bit disillusioned, so that you could come again the following 12 months with the correct amount of vitality, focus and dedication to win the massive trophies subsequent 12 months.”

Scoring for the Alabama Males

• Along with Tarsis Orogot taking fifth within the 200 meters and the 4×400-meter relay ending third, the Crimson Tide males had a pair of throwers earn staff factors on Wednesday
• Isaac Odugbesan posted his highest particular person end on the NCAA Championships, taking third within the shot put with a throw of 20.48 meters
• Along with being a private finest for Odugbesan, it was additionally Alabama’s finest end within the shot put on the NCAA Outside Championships since Hreinn Halldorsson additionally took third in 1980
• Together with his end, Odugbesan has now earned First Workforce Indoor and Outside All-America honors within the shot put in 2022
• Bobby Colantonio Jr. received the lads began with a First Workforce All-America efficiency within the hammer throw, taking fourth with a toss of 71.97 meters
• It was one of the best end of his profession on the NCAA Outside Championships and got here on the heels of his NCAA title and All-America efficiency within the weight throw on the 2022 NCAA Indoor Championships

Remaining Day for the Tide Girls (Saturday)

• After profitable the NCAA 10,000 meters title on Thursday, Mercy Chelangat returns to motion Saturday night time within the 5,000 meters
• Amaris Tyynismaa may also run the 5,000 meters on Saturday following a robust displaying on the NCAA East Preliminary

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