Brodie Young, Lou-Anne Pouzancre Hoyer Earn MW Weekly Track Honors
After putting down the fastest 400m times in the Mountain West on Saturday with new personal bests that rank among the Top 25 in the nation, New Mexico’s Brodie Young and Lou-Anne Pouzancre Hoyer have been named Mountain West Track Athletes of the Week, the conference announced Tuesday.
It’s the third week in a row in which New Mexico athletes take home multiple Mountain West weekly track honors, but the first weekly honors of the season for Young and the first of Pouzancre Hoyer’s career. Young won MW Track Athlete and/or Freshman of the Week five times, but this is only his second Indoor honor and first weekly award since 2023.
In the first regular-season team scoring meet hosted by UNM at the ABQ Convention Center since 2019, both New Mexico teams held their own against a field that included 24 men’s and women’s squads that entered this week ranked among the Top 50 in the nation. The Lobo women (No. 24 in the nation in last week’s USTFCCCA TFRI rankings) finished 7th in the overall team score with 30 points, while the No. 20 men placed 8th with 25 points in total.
Young and Pouzancre contributed four points each with their fifth-place finishes in the men’s and women’s 400m and a combined three more between the men’s and women’s 4x400m relays that finished eighth and seventh, respectively.
BRODIE YOUNG | MW Men’s Track Athlete of the Week
Young broke Jarrin Solomon’s nearly 16-year-old school record in the men’s 400m on Saturday with a 45.96 personal best — a time that stands as a Scottish indoor national record, ranks No. 2 among MW performers all-time and No. 13 on the British all-time list.The previous Scottish record of 45.98 — held by Olympian Brian Whittle — had stood for 37 years.
That time also ranks 30th among collegiate performances at the Albuquerque Convention Center all-time. Nine of those Top 30 performances were recorded this season.
Now in qualifying position for NCAA Indoor Championships (No. 13 in the nation), Young finished 5th overall behind four performances that currently rank in the Top 10 in the nation.
Young returned for the men’s 4x400m relay to close out the weekend, posting the fastest split of the day for UNM (45.37) to help them produce their fastest time of the season so far (3:11.29). With conversions, that time ranks No. 7 on the UNM indoor all-time list.
Brodie’s first 400 of the season does not disappoint!
• New PB + UNM Program Record ⏱️ 46.07*
• @scotathletics National Record 🏴
• @TeamGB #13 All-Time 🇬🇧
• #30 among all-time collegiate performances at ABQCC 🐺
• 2nd-fastest in @MountainWest history 🏔️ pic.twitter.com/46xwWPZY3l— New Mexico XC/T&F (@UNMLoboXCTF) February 8, 2025
LOU-ANNE POUZANCRE HOYER | MW Women’s Track Athlete of the Week
In her 400m season debut, Pouzancre Hoyer put down the second-fastest time in program history – and fastest in the Mountain West — with a 52.80 (52.91@) personal best to finish 5th overall on Saturday behind four performances that currently rank in the Top 15 in the nation. Pouzancre Hoyer now ranks No. 22 in the nation in the 400m.
That converted time is 2.77 seconds faster than the next-best in the Mountain West and the raw time ranks No. 2 on the French U23 All-Time List, No. 5 among French women this year, No. 5 among U23 women in Europe this year and No. 16 on the French All-Time List.
The French national returned to run the final leg of a UNM women’s 4x400m that broke the program record (3:36.44 / 3:36.88@), closing with a 53.83 split as they finished seventh overall to score two more points.
UP NEXT
New Mexico Track & Field splits up home and Seattle this weekend, hosting the Don Kirby Elite at the Albuquerque Convention Center while also sending a contingent to the UW Husky Classic at Washington’s Dempsey Indoor. The action in Albuquerque will be available to stream via paid subscription to FloTrack — Head to GoLobos.com/FollowTrack for all of this week’s live results and streaming links all in one place and follow @UNMLoboXCTF on Instagram and X for live coverage, meet day content and more.