Saturday’s preseason meet featured competing spots, community runners and high school competitors as UNM hosted the Lobo Invitational.
Many of the starters for the men and the No. 1 defending national championship women’s squad were sidelined to prepare for the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational on Sept. 30, when meet results officially count towards standings.
However, you couldn’t tell local product Kendall Kelly the meet was for nothing. She finished atop the New Mexico leaderboard vying for a spot on the travel squad.
Kelly’s time of 18:34.70 was good enough for a third place overall finish in the women’s 5k.