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Andresson Named MAC Track Athlete of the Week

MAC Release

CLEVELAND, Ohio. (EMUEagles.com) - For the first time in his career, redshirt junior Hlynur Andresson (Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland - Mountain Ridge) of the Eastern Michigan University men's track and field team was named the Mid-American Conference Track Athlete of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday, April 4.

Andresson paced the Eagles in the 5000m run at the Stanford Invitational, as he turned in a personal-best time of 14:00.83, which was also the seventh-best time in program history, to put him in third of section three. Not only was Andresson's time a career-best and one of the best in EMU history, but it also broke the Icelandic outdoor 5000m record.