The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
University of Texas
NCAA Outdoor Championships
Men's Outdoor Track and Field finishes 13th at NCAA Championships
06.09.2023 | Track & Field / Cross Country
Bizimana finishes as 800-meter national runner up.
AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas men's track and field team finished 13th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships scoring 18 points after 21 events.
The Longhorns were led by Leo Neugebauer's historic decathlon win on Thursday night after scoring 8,836 points to break the collegiate record. Neugebauer's win gave Texas 10 points.
Yusuf Bizimana was the national runner-up in the 800-meter dash with his personal-best time of 1:45.74. The time improved his previous best on the Texas All-Time performer list at No. 2 and now holds two of the top-five times in school history. Bizimana finished his junior season as the NCAA indoor 800m champion and outdoor second-place finisher and is now a five-time All-American.
Crayton Carrozza finished ninth with his time of 1:47.23 to earn Second Team All-America honors.
Both Jeremiah Nubbe and Sam Hurley finished with Second Team All-America honors in their respective events. Nubbe set a personal best in the discus with a heave of 57.94m (190-1) earning him his first USTFCCCA All-America honors on the second team.
Hurley cleared 2.11m (6-11) in the high jump to finish tied for fourth and also earned Second Team All-America honors for the first time in his career.
Kristine Blazevica concluded her first day of the heptathlon in sixth place with 3,559 points. She began the day with a seventh-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles scoring 1,055 points. The three-time All American cleared 1.72m (5-7.75) in the high jump to add 879 points and set a season-best throw of 12.83m (42-1.25) to move into sixth with 3,559 points. Blazevica concluded the day running the 200-meter in 24.76.
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