FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Three New Mexico athletes picked up First Team All-America honors with podium finishes to wrap up 2026 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships Saturday at Randal Tyson Track Center, with Pamela Kosgei and Marion Jepngetich going 2-3 in the Women’s 3,000m and Matthew Endrödy finishing sixth in the Men’s Mile.
With all 17 men's and women's events scored, New Mexico concludes the weekend tied for 10th in the women's team score with 20 points and tied for 19th on the men's side with 13.
MEN’S MILE FINAL
6. Matthew Endrödy - 3:59.74*
* USTFCCCA First Team All-American
Endrödy concluded his breakout 2026 indoor season with First Team All-American honors – the first of his career – after working his way from last place into the No. 6 position with the second-fastest bell lap of the entire field (27.08 seconds). His time of 3:59.74 is the fourth-fastest of any man from New Mexico at NCAA Indoor Championships behind Josh Kerr (3:57.02, 2018), Lee Emmanuel (3:59.26, 2010) and Elmar Engholm (3:59.71, 2014) and he’s the highest men’s mile placer since Kerr in 2018.
The South African sophomore’s indoor season saw him record the second-fastest mile in program history and sixth-fastest ever run at the ABQ Convention Center before sweeping both the 800m and Mile titles at Mountain West Indoor Championships. Prior to this season, his fastest collegiate mile performance was a 4:11.95 raw time (4:06.57 converted) ran at altitude in Albuquerque.
WOMEN’S 3,000M FINAL
2. Pamela Kosgei - 8:43.86*
3. Marion Jepngetich - 8:44.0^
* Personal Best; UNM Record; Mountain West Record; NCAA Runner-Up; USTFCCCA First Team All-American
* Personal Best; No. 2 UNM Indoor List; USTFCCCA First Team All-American
Kosgei and Jepngetich both put down lifetime bests that rank No. 1 and No. 2 amongst UNM performances indoors all-time as the duo finished second and third overall, netting 14 points for the Lobo women as a team. They finished behind a meet record performance from BYU’s Jane Hedengren (8:36.61) as she completed the 3K/5K sweep.
It’s the seventh First Team All-American finish of Kosgei’s career and the second of Jepngetich’s – in their last championship race together in the 5,000m Final at NCAA Outdoor Championships, they finished first and fourth in the nation.
MEN’S 3,000M FINAL
Habtom Samuel - DQ
Samuel was the first to cross the finish line and looked poised to complete the 3K/5K sweep after outpacing NAU's Colin Sahlman (7:41.66) by a hundredth of a second after a chaotic final lap, but was later disqualified due to contact on that final lap.