Track & Field garners 16 All-America honors

03.13.2017 | Track & Field / Cross Country

Longhorns close indoor season

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Track & Field finished the indoor season with a pair of Top 25 performances from the men's and women's teams this weekend at the NCAA Championships. The Longhorns were honored with 16 spots on the 2017 USTFCCCA All-America Teams.

A total of 12 of those honors were first-team efforts for Texas, and four Longhorns earned first-team status in their first opportunity in an individual event.

Freshman O'Brien Wasome finished third in the men's triple jump to garner the first All-America honor of his career. Fellow freshman Rushelle Burton took fifth place in the women's 60 meter hurdles to also get first-team status.

Sophomores Zola Golden and Steffin McCarter competed in their first NCAA Indoor Championship and took home first-team All-America honors. McCarter finished third in the men's long jump and Golden was seventh in the women's 400 meters.

Senior Senoj-Jay Givans earned a pair of first-team All-America honors for the Longhorns as he finished fourth in the men's 60 meters. He tied his season best time of 6.59 seconds in the final for the Longhorns. He also ran on the men's 4x400 meter relay team that finished seventh to grab first-team honors there.

Also running with Givans on the relay team were fellow seniors Byron Robinson, Chris Irvin and anchor leg Aldrich Bailey Jr. The group ran the No. 5 time in school history and tallied three of the top six times in school history this season.

Taking first-team honors for the women was senior Chrisann Gordon. The Olympian took sixth place in the 400 meters. It marks her third USTFCCCA Indoor All-America First-Team selection in her two years at Texas.

Wolf Mahler rallied on the second day of the heptathlon to finish in seventh place overall and take home first-team honors for the second time in his indoor career after finishing sixth in 2015.

Taking second-team honors for the Longhorns was Spencer Dunkerley-Offor for finishing ninth in the 60 meter hurdles. Steele Wasik placed 16^th in the heptathlon, and Teahna Daniels was 10^th in the women's 60 meters. Shay Petty and Kally Long both earn second-team honors in the pole vault as they finished 10^th and 11^th, respectively.

The USTFCCCA recognizes athletes finishing in the top eight at the NCAA Championships and scoring points for their team as First Team All-America. The rest of the finishers are named Second Team All-American – unless he or she did not finish or was disqualified, and in that case was named honorable mention.

2017 USTFCCCA All-America Teams

Men
Aldrich Bailey Jr.: 4x400m Relay
Spencer Dunkerley-Offor: 60m Hurdles^
???????Senoj-Jay Givans: 60m & 4x400m Relay
Chris Irvin: 4x400m Relay
Wolf Mahler: Heptathlon
???????Steffin McCarter: Long Jump
Byron Robinson: 4x400m Relay
Steele Wasik: Heptathlon^
O'Brien Wasome: Triple Jump