COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — University of New Mexico redshirt freshman Josh Kerr has been named Mountain West Men’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Week for meets contested from January 19-21.
Kerr, hailing from Edinburgh, Scotland, ran a time of 1 minute. 50.75 seconds in the men’s 800-meter run to place second overall and first collegiately at the Cherry & Silver Invitational this past weekend at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
After redshirting his first indoor campaign in 2016, Kerr made quite the indoor debut on Saturday, climbing to seventh in New Mexico history in the 800. He currently ranks 25th in the NCAA and leads the Mountain West by just over 1.5 seconds.
His time, which was converted from 1:51.37 to compensate for altitude, is also a new personal record, just topping his previous best of 1:51.18 set in 2015.
This honor is the first athlete-of-the-week honor for Kerr, who qualified to the NCAA Outdoor Championships last spring.
Overall, it’s the first indoor athlete-of-the-week honor for New Mexico this season. Kerr’s selection is also the 13th since the MW expanded the number of conference athletes of the week from two to four (track athletes and field athletes for both genders) for the 2015 season.
New Mexico returns to action this Saturday as it hosts the New Mexico Team Invitational at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
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