Weekly Auburn roundup: Joyce Kimeli declared a national champion
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
Auburn’s Joyce Kimeli brought home both a gold and a bronze medal from the National Indoor Championship, helping Auburn to a 10th place finish.
The track and field team had the best week out of all the Auburn program, although the equestrian team beat a ranked team and the soccer team completed a “hat trick” of three wins against Georgia.
Other teams dealt with some losses, although many suffered them against ranked teams. Here’s a summary of how Auburn’s teams did this week:
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Auburn baseball:
The Tigers started out the week with a close win over an in-state opponent, UAB.
RRW: Oregon’s Cole Hocker Wins Both Mile and 3000m At NCAA Indoor Championships
By David Monti, @d9monti
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(13-Mar) On the final day of the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Randal Tyson Track Center at the University of Arkansas, Oregon sophomore Cole Hocker was the dominant distance athlete winning the mile in a championships record 3:53.71 then the 3000m in 7:46.15 about an hour later, both with sizzling final laps. The 20 points he scored for the Ducks helped them win the team title with 79 points, the second-highest score in meet history and highest total since 1994.
2021 NCAA Women’s Indoor: Arkansas Repeats, Athing Mu Gets Beat (Then Runs the Fastest Indoor 4×400 Split Ever), Courtney Wayment Double
March 13, 2021
The 2021 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships concluded in Fayetteville, Ark., and the Arkansas Razorbacks won the title 68 to 57 over Texas A&M with a true team performance. The Razorbacks didn’t win a single individual event (the Oregon men won six en route to their title), but scored in 10 of the 17 events and clinched the title with 17 points in the 3000m. It added up to the second-highest score in meet history, behind only the 84 logged by Oregon’s triple crown winners of 2017.
Shawn Price March 13, 2021
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A surge of 58 points scored by the Razorbacks on the third and final day of the NCAA Indoor Championships secured another national championship for the Arkansas program, as they successfully defending their 2019 indoor title in the Randal Tyson Track Center.
The Razorbacks totaled 68 points to chase down the 16-point lead Texas A&M built over the first two days. The Aggies finished as runner-up with 57 points with LSU third at 39. The rest of the top 10 schools included USC (35), Georgia (31), Florida (30), BYU (29), Texas (25), Baylor (24), and Auburn (20).
Arkansas’ total is the third highest winning score over the history of the NCAA Indoor Championships, dating back to 1983, trailing only 84 by Oregon in 2017 and 71 by Texas in 1988.