DALLAS —UTSA's Alanah Yukich has been named Conference USA Female Track Athlete of the Week, the league office announced Wednesday.
Yukich earned her first career weekly award after posting the second-fastest 400-meter hurdles time in school history while finishing as the top collegiate competitor at the J. Fred Duckett Twilight last Saturday in Houston. The sophomore from Perth, Australia, clocked a time of 57.57 seconds to place second overall behind unattached Deonca Bookman (56.56).
Yukich's time ranks as the second-fastest in C-USA this season behind teammate Faith Roberson's school-record 57.54 and it stands 14th nationally, including sixth among NCAA West Preliminary Round qualifiers. It also bettered her previous personal best of 58.70 posted in winning the UTSA Invitational in March, a time that broke a 29-year-old school record before Roberson's record-setting race one week later at the Texas Relays.
This marks the third straight week and ninth time this year that a Roadrunner has earned the conference's weekly award. Bashiru Abdullahi has received the accolade three times, including last week, while Faith Roberson (twice), Chante Dixon, Ingeborg Gruenwald and Andrew Pirog also have been honored.
The Roadrunners will be back in action this Saturday, May 1, at the Alumni Muster hosted by Texas A&M in College Station.
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