Hershenow Wins Third Consecutive 10,000-Meter Title at AAC Outdoor Championships

Friday, May 10

San Antonio, Texas

Tulsa

The American Outdoor Championships

Photo by: Sam Craft / American Athletic Conference

Hershenow Wins Third Consecutive 10,000-Meter Title at AAC Outdoor Championships

5/10/2024 8:38:00 PM | Track and Field

Men's Results (PDF)Women's Results (PDF)

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Senior Chloe Hershenow made history Friday as the first female Tulsa athlete to repeat as an individual conference champion for a third year in a row as the St. Louis product claimed the women's 10,000-meter title to open the American Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships, scoring 10 of the Tulsa women's 15 team points to rank second in team standings while the men's team also finished second after day one with 20 points.

The Rice men's (37 points) and women's (20 points) squads lead the team standings after the first day of competition. On Friday, the Golden Hurricane enjoyed two finals qualifiers, two all-conference performances and one title winner. The action for TU picks back up Saturday at 6 p.m. with the women's 800-meter trial.

Women
In her championship performance in the 10,000-meters, Hershenow kept pace with the leading pack of runners for the first 24 laps of the race. She began to pull away in the final 50 meters of the 24^th lap and zoomed out to a 50-meter lead within the first 100 meters of the final lap, leaving everyone in the dust to cruise to a 37:47.04 finish over 23 other athletes. Hershenow joins an elite group as Benjamin Preisner (2014-19) is the only other Tulsa track athlete to three-peat an AAC event, which was the men's indoor 5,000-meters from 2017-19. Hershenow's teammates Robyn Kowalski, a junior, and Tamara Reeves, a senior, placed sixth and seventh, respectively, to combine for Tulsa's remaining five points as top-10 finishers.

Senior Katharina Pesendorfer took care of business in the 1,500-meter run when she placed seventh in 4:31.91 to qualify as a top-12 finisher for Sunday's final.

Junior Lianne Holtermann ran against a tough crowd in the 400-meter hurdles to place 16^th in 1:03.32. Eight competitors ahead of her set new season or personal bests, including the first-place runner who set the 85^th fastest mark across the NCAA.

"Today was a really strong day led by an amazing run from Chloe," said Director of Track and Women's Head Coach Steve Gulley. "She loves this meet and has been such a crucial part of our success over the years. We probably hit on everything we needed to today, and we need to keep the momentum up tomorrow."

Men
The tradition of long-distance domination continues for Tulsa as four of the five Hurricane men in Friday morning's 10,000-meter placed in the top-10 to score points for TU. Redshirt Freshman Charlie Krasnoff, the reigning AAC Cross Country Freshman of the Year, paced Tulsa runners with a second-place mark of 30:42.38 for eight points. Redshirt sophomore Luke Lambert was the next Hurricane to finish with a fourth-place performance in 31:06.20 with freshman James Knockton (31:15.38) and redshirt-senior Shuaib Aljabaly (31:19.11) following in fifth and sixth place and senior Ben Black rounding out the contingent in 32:29.01 for 18^th.

Senior Shay McEvoy was one of 12 athletes to qualify for the 1,500-meter final as the Kilkenny, Ireland, product took sixth in 3:51.30.

"We didn't have a lot today, but what we did have went really well," said Men's Head Coach Taylor Gulley. "Charlie led a really good team effort in the 10,000 meters and Shay ran a smooth, composed 1,500 trial run. We didn't bring a huge squad, but day one was everything we could've asked for."

Women
400m Hurdles TRIAL
16. Lianne Holtermann - 1:03.32

1,500m TRIAL
7. Katharina Pesendorfer - 4:31.91q

10,000m FINAL (W)
1. Chloe Hershenow - 37:47.04
6. Robyn Kowalski - 38:04.76
7. Tamara Reeves - 38:09.35*

Men
1,500m TRIAL
6. Shay McEvoy - 3:51.30q

10,000m FINAL
2. Charlie Krasnoff - 30:42.38*
4. Luke Lambert - 31:06.20*
5. James Knockton - 31:15.38*
6. Shuaib Aljabaly - 31:19.11
18. Ben Black - 32:29.01

q – Finals Qualifier
* – Personal Best
Bold denotes all-conference recipients

Tulsa's Remaining Championship Schedule (All times Central) -----

800m TRIAL (W) - Saturday, 6:00 p.m.
Sarah Hosey
Billie Rouse

400m TRIAL (W) - Saturday, 6:30 p.m.
Kamree Dye
Raniya Laneau
Elizabeth Roca

400m TRIAL (M) - Saturday, 6:45 p.m.
Evan Sanni-Thomas
Dillon Stinson
Jayden Williams

100m TRIAL (M) - Saturday, 7:15 p.m.
Zander Baker
Jonathan Lee
Josh Sutton

3,000m Steeplechase FINAL (W) - Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
Alicen Ashley
Katharina Pesendorfer

3,000m Steeplechase FINAL (M) - Saturday, 7:45 p.m.
Christian Baker

Triple Jump FINAL (W) - Sunday, 2:30 p.m.
Rylie Hancock

4x100m Relay FINAL (M) - Sunday, 4:40 p.m.
Zander Baker, Jonathan Lee, Dillon Stinson, Josh Sutton

1,500m FINAL (W) - Sunday, 4:50 p.m.
Katharina Pesendorfer

1,500m FINAL (M) - Sunday, 5:00 p.m.
Shay McEvoy

400m FINAL (W) - Sunday, 5:30 p.m.
TBD

400m FINAL (M) - Sunday, 5:35 p.m.
TBD

100m FINAL (M) - Sunday, 5:50 p.m.
TBD

800m FINAL (W) - Sunday, 6:00 p.m.
TBD

400m Hurdles FINAL (W) - Sunday, 6:15 p.m.
TBD

5,000m FINAL (W) - Sunday, 6:45 p.m.
Alicen Ashley
Chloe Hershenow
Robyn Kowalski
Tamara Reeves

5,000m FINAL (M) - Sunday, 7:10 p.m.
Shuaib Aljabaly
Christian Baker
Ben Black
Jaden Forester
James Knockton
Luke Lambert
Shay McEvoy
Chris McLeod
Malte Propp

4x400m Relay FINAL (W) - Sunday, 7:35 p.m.
Kamree Dye, Lianne Holtermann, Raniya Laneau, Elizabeth Roca

4x400m Relay FINAL (M) - Sunday, 7:45 p.m.
Evan Sanni-Thomas, Dillon Stinson, Josh Sutton, Jayden Williams (Alt: Zander Baker, Jonathan Lee)