COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — After setting the school record in the 1,0000-meter run Friday, New Mexico track & field redshirt junior Alice Wright was named Tuesday as Mountain West Women's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week for meets contested from May 5-6.
Wright, the only collegian running in the women's 10,000 at the Payton Jordan Invitational, raced to a time of 32 minutes, 29.28 seconds in her first competitive 10K since claiming runner-up honors in the event at the 2016 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
Against a field that included seven Olympians, three athletes that had competed in the World Cross Country Championship, an NCAA All-American and a World University Games medalist, Wright shined on Cobb Track in Stanford.