Elise Stearns leads a large sky record to the 5,000 meters to highlight the NCAA indoor championship campaign

Virginia Beach, va. – Emphasized by a conference recording of Elise Stearns In the 5,000 meters, the men's and women in Nordarizona athletics team had a lot to celebrate after the first day of the NCAA Division I Indoor Athletics Championships in Virginia Beach.

Stearns wrote in the 5,000 meters of history and ran 15:07 to take fourth place for the first team all-American status. Time is in the top ten of all time in the history of the NCAA and is putting up a new Big Sky Conference and a new record of Northern Arizona, which previously belonged to Stearns with a time of 15:2143 that she used to be set in this indoor season.

It marks its second NCAA Division I -indoor championship appearance when she placed 11^TH Last year a place in the second team with a time of 16: 34.04. In the same race, Ali upshaw Lit^TH With a time of 15: 55.49 in her first national championship appearance inside.

Maggi Congdon In their heat in fourth place and fourth overall to qualify for tomorrow's Mile final and to drive 4: 34.88. It is the second season in a row that Congdon reached until the final when she was 10 placed^TH In total last season with a time of 4: 34.06.

Alex Carlson ran a strong race and hardly missed qualifying for the final in the mile and placed 11^TH With a time of 4: 36.47 direct behind the last qualifying, which ran 4: 36.41 and earned the second team all-American finale.

Carlson also got together with Karrie BalogaPresent Kyairra ReighAnd Agnes Mctighe In order to earn the second team All-America in distance medley relay, Nau and The Big Sky have been marking a DMR team race for the first time since 2006. The quartet placed 11^TH With a time of 11: 06.71, which has the second ever in the program and the history of the Big Sky Conference.

On the men's side, Colin Sahlman I used a strong kick to place the fourth legal in the line in the mile of men and separate 4: 01.88 to reach his competitors in Arkansas in 4: 01.92. He placed 12^TH Overall in the event and in the mile final for the second season in follow-up in 2024 with a time of 4: 02.57 sixth.

In the weight throw, Desmond Lott earned the second team all-American honors with a throw of 21.82 meters that place 11^TH in total. Drew Bosley The second team All-America also earned and ended ninth with a time of 13: 21.28 in his third 5,000-meter championship race of his career.

The campaign will continue tomorrow, March 15, by Virginia Beach, Virginia. Congdon begins the campaign in the mileage final at 12 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, followed by Stearns in the 3,000 meters at 1 p.m. MST. On the men's side, Sahlman will complete the line in the mile at 3 p.m. MST and Bosley at 4 p.m. MST.

The meeting is streamed on ESPN+ with live results on NCAA.com.