COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — University of New Mexico senior Calli Thackery has been named Mountain West Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Week for meets contested from February 17-19.
Thackery, hailing from Yorkshire, England, ran a time of 9 minutes. 9.77 seconds in the 3,000-meter run to win the event at 2017 USATF New England Indoor Track & Field Championships this past Sunday in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Looking to gain position for a postseason run, Thackery made the trek to Harvard University’s Gordon Indoor Track, coming away with a strong performance. She beat a field of professional and post-collegiate athletes, registering a season-best time in the process.
Her time ranks second in the Mountain West and 18th in the NCAA in 2017. That mark is also the fourth-best all-time at New Mexico, giving Thackery seven of the top 10 times over 3,000 meters in New Mexico history.
This honor is the fourth career athlete of the week honor in track for Thackery, with two coming indoors (February 3, 2015) and two outdoors (April 22, 2015 and April 19, 2016).
Thackery now has the most career MW athlete of the week honors among all female New Mexico track & field/cross country athletes.
Overall, Thackery’s honor is the second athlete of the week honor for New Mexico this season, following Josh Kerr’s selection as men’s track athlete of the week on January 24.
Her selection is also the 14th 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 week as it competes in the Mountain West Indoor Track & Field Championships this Thursday through Saturday at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
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