Josh Kerr is no stranger to interviews.
The University of New Mexico track & field standout had been a part of his fair share of interviews over this past season, a year in which he won a pair of national titles.
And, as he prepares to compete in the 1,500-meter run at the IAAF World Outdoor Championships — perhaps one of the most prominent meets of his young career — the junior-to-be from Edinburgh, Scotland, sat down with Jesse Kurtz of the Mountain West Network to share his thoughts on his outstanding 2017 track campaign.
“It’s been a great year, but it’s been a long one, so we had to kind of look towards this competition the whole year,” Kerr said. “But the training has being going well and I’m still feeling fresh.”
Kerr, the 2016-17 Mountain West Male Athlete of the Year, swept both the mile run and the 1,500-meter run at the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor championships. He is just the 11th athlete in NCAA history — and the first since 2008 — to accomplish the indoor/outdoor sweep.
He also ran the sixth-fastest 1,500-meter time in NCAA history at the Bryan Clay Invitational in April, clocking in at 3:35.99. That time met the qualifying standard for the World Championships, and Kerr claimed a spot on Britain’s team after a second-place finish at the nation’s World Championships Team Trials in July.
Kerr will open up his competition with the preliminary-round heats of the men’s 1500 at 1:25 p.m. MT on Thursday, August 10, with semifinals on Friday, August 11, and the world championship final on Sunday August 13.
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