Last night in Austin, Texas, Olivia Markezich won a national championship for the Irish.
The senior from Woodinville, Wash., won the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA Championships hosted by the University of Texas with a time of nine minutes and 25.03 seconds. She outpaced runner-up Greta Karinauskaite of California Baptist by more than five seconds.
Markezich won the steeplechase event at the Outdoor ACC Championships last month in 9:40.65. Her personal record before Saturday was 9:35.80.
Markezich became the second women's track and field national champion for Notre Dame of the year with Jadin O'Brien winning the indoor pentathlon title in March.
More highlights from UND.com: Madison Schmidt tied for 18th in the high jump with a 1.81 meter mark, and Alaina Brady earned an 11th-place finish in the heptathlon with a personal best of 5739.
The women finished with 12 points, good for a second-place finish overall.
On the men’s side, both John Keenan and Carter Solomon — two standouts at this year’s Outdoor ACC Championships — earned All-America status. Keenan took seventh place with a 75.96M mark in the javelin event, shattering his previous school record of 72.06M. Solomon also finished seventh overall in the 5000M event, crossing the finish line at 14:09.57. With that, Solomon wrapped up a year composed of two individual ACC titles (Cross Country 8K and Outdoor 10,000M) and three NCAA Championship berths.
The senior from Woodinville, Wash., won the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA Championships hosted by the University of Texas with a time of nine minutes and 25.03 seconds. She outpaced runner-up Greta Karinauskaite of California Baptist by more than five seconds.
Markezich won the steeplechase event at the Outdoor ACC Championships last month in 9:40.65. Her personal record before Saturday was 9:35.80.
Markezich became the second women's track and field national champion for Notre Dame of the year with Jadin O'Brien winning the indoor pentathlon title in March.
More highlights from UND.com: Madison Schmidt tied for 18th in the high jump with a 1.81 meter mark, and Alaina Brady earned an 11th-place finish in the heptathlon with a personal best of 5739.
The women finished with 12 points, good for a second-place finish overall.
On the men’s side, both John Keenan and Carter Solomon — two standouts at this year’s Outdoor ACC Championships — earned All-America status. Keenan took seventh place with a 75.96M mark in the javelin event, shattering his previous school record of 72.06M. Solomon also finished seventh overall in the 5000M event, crossing the finish line at 14:09.57. With that, Solomon wrapped up a year composed of two individual ACC titles (Cross Country 8K and Outdoor 10,000M) and three NCAA Championship berths.
