
Abdihamid Nur was named the National Men’s Track Athlete of the Year. Nur, who hails from Phoenix, Arizona, by way of Mogadishu, Somalia, capped a strong season at the NCAA DI Indoor Track & Field Championships, where he completed the distance double. He won the 5000 meters on Friday in a meet-record 13:19.01 and kicked home to win a tactical 3000 on Saturday, a race where the top-8 athletes all finished with one second of each other. That mark in the 5000 also put him ninth on the all-time collegiate chart and improved his PR from 13:22.24 that he ran in December. Back in mid-February, Nur covered 3000m in 7:40.66, which is the fifth-fastest all-conditions mark in collegiate history and the fastest on an oversized track. Nur also PR’d in the mile this year at 3:55.94.