BOSTON, Mass. (December 4, 2021) - Northern Arizona All-Americans Drew Bosley (redshirt freshman), George Kusche (redshirt junior), Abdihamid Nur (redshirt sophomore), and Nico Young rank within the NCAA top-nine this season after running sub-13:30 5K's at Boston University Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener.
In his indoor track debut, Young ran a personal best time of 13:22.59, destroying the men's indoor 5000-meter u20 record, and securing the third-fastest collegiate time this season; the previous u20 indoor 5K record had been held by Chris Derrick since 2009 (13:48.26).
Meanwhile Kusche set the new men's indoor 5K South African national record with a personal best time of 13:28.95; the previous record was set by Adriaan Wildshutt of Florida State (13:30.55) last year.
Nur also ran a personal best time of 13:22.24, just missing the men's NCAA 5K top-10 all-time list by .07 seconds. Nur currently owns this season's second-fastest indoor 5K time.
Nur and Young now respectively sit 11th and 12th on the men's NCAA 5K all-time record list.
Making his first indoor track appearance as well, Bosley finished with a personal best of 13:26.19.
Nur, Young, Bosley and Kusche now sequentially rank No. 2, No. 3, No. 6 and No. 9 on the NCAA Division I Indoor Qualifying List.
In addition, All-Americans Geordie Beamish (13:12.53) and Matthew Baxter (13:30.48), distinguished Northern Arizona alumni gone pro, ran alongside these men tonight, with Beamish finishing second overall for OAC and Baxter placing 13th for HOKA NAZ Elite.
The Lumberjacks will continue their indoor season on January 14 when NAU hosts the Friday Night Axe 'Em Open.
