Sakeuh and Harden Earn NAIA All-American Honors

NAIA Outdoor Track & Field Championship Central | Results

GULF SHORES, Ala. – On the final day in Gulf Shores, the TU women's track and field team added two more NAIA All-Americans to the list while all five competing athletes finished in the top 12 in their respective events.

Plenseh-Tay Sakeuh doubled up on her NAIA All-American honors on Saturday with her final run in the women's 100-meter hurdles. With a time of 14.35 seconds, the senior finished her career taking eighth place. Her eighth-place run today was preluded by her record-setting run in the prelims and put the final stamp on her career on the track for TU.

Sophomore Sarah Harden made the most of her opportunity in the women's 5,000-meter run, racing to a seventh-place finish with a time of 17:53.71. The finish gives her NAIA All-American honors. After two years with TU women's track and field, Harden has collected the honor in the 5k twice. She has also collected three indoor NAIA All-American nods, making her a five-time honoree after two years at TU.

Just missing the podium, Rachel Blagg raced to a ninth-place finish in the women's 1,500-meter with a time of 4:45.89. Blagg, a heavily decorated distance runner for TU, leaves Taylor as the record holder in the event that she finished out her career.

Mae Elizabeth Gimre and Taylor Bluemel closed out the championships for the Trojans by each nabbing 12th-place finishes in their respective events. In the 3,000-meter steeplechase, Gimre clocked in at 11:34.81, and Bluemel crossed the finish line at 18:26.89 in her 5,000-meter run.

The Trojans finish the meet with 12 total team points, which gives them a 25th-place finish overall.