MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Conference USA announced on Tuesday Jan. 31 its Indoor Track and Field Athletes of the Week, including Middle Tennessee's Alaba Akintola, who was named Male Track Athlete of the Week for the second time this season.
Akintola ran in both the 60-meter and 200-meter this past weekend at the UNM Team Open where he qualified for the NCAA Championships. He took first place in the 60-meter race and second in the 200-meter race.
The senior from Ondo, Nigeria earned a time of 6.61 seconds in the 60-meter where he finished first in the finals.