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Harrisonburg, VA – Alex Masai added another conference championship to his overcrowded coat as the Hofstra men’s distance runner took first place in the 5,000-meter run at the Colonial Athletic Association’s 2021 outdoor track and field championships on Saturday afternoon at Sentara Park on the James Madison University campus . With the win, Masai is the first Hofstra distance runner to win gold at a CAA athletics championship.
Masai, a graduate student from Eldoret, Kenya, crossed the finish line with a time of 13: 51.48, breaking his own school record and the Sentara Park course record of 14: 41.73 set by Jack Ikenberry of George Mason on April 17th . 2021. Masai quickly finished second at the start of the race before overtaking his team-mate Paul Markovina at the beginning of the third round. The sensational distance runner quickly retired from the field as soon as he took the lead, and Masai would land 24.43 seconds ahead of Cameron Dickson of the northeast, who won the 10,000m on Friday. student in the first year Aiden Willey He also ran for Hofstra and finished sixth with a time of 15: 13.45.
With his time at 5000 m, Masai is among the top 30 in the Eat Region. He moves to 29th place ahead of Hannes Burger from the state of North Carolina (13: 51.86). Those who finish in the top 48 in the East Region will qualify for the NCAA Division I’s 2021 NCAA Division I Athletics Preliminary Round, held May 27-29 in Jacksonville, Florida.
With Masai and Willey, who together scored 14 points on 5000 m, Hofstra finished the two-day competition with 19 points and came fourth. Northeastern won the men’s team title for the sixth time in a row with 291 points, followed by William & Mary in second place with 191 points and UNCW in third place with 111 points.
Pride will start again on May 6th at West Point Twilight. The competition takes place at Shea Stadium on the Army West Point campus.
