MADISON, Wisc. – Pamela Kosgei and Habtom Samuel both obliterated the Zimmer Championship Course records en route to runaway individual wins as the No. 8 Lobo men and No. 17 women both outpaced 15 ranked teams each to finish fourth and sixth in the team score at Wisconsin Pre-Nationals on Saturday morning.
On this year’s NCAA Championship course, Kosgei took over down the stretch to shake off Florida’s Hilda Olemomoi and dip under the 19-minute mark with a 18:59.1 clocking – 18.1 seconds faster than the previous course record set by Parker Valby in 2023 (19:17.2). UNM was one of only four teams that placed three or more runners in the Top 50 overall thanks to 37th- and 38th-place finishes from Natalie Bitetti (20:06.8) and Mercy Kirarei (20:07.5), finishing with 236 points in the team score to place sixth against a field that included 20 ranked teams.
Up next in the men’s 8K, Samuel replicated the feat, shaving more than 30 seconds off Parker Wolfe’s previous record of 23:04 with a 22:34.6 time – 6.8 seconds ahead of second-place finisher and 2023 NCAA Champion Graham Blanks — to complete the individual sweep. Behind him, Vincent Chirchir (23:06.5) finished 11th and Collins Kiprotich (23:15.7) finished 26th to anchor a 166-point outing that placed the men fourth in the team score.
| WOMEN’S 6K TEAM SCORE | MEN’S 8K TEAM SCORE | |||||
| TEAM | POINTS | TEAM | POINTS | |||
| 1. | No. 2 BYU | 105 | 1. | No. 3 Arkansas | 89 | |
| 2. | No. 3 Washington | 157 | 2. | No. 4 Iowa St. | 128 | |
| 3. | No. 1 N. Arizona | 166 | 3. | No. 9 Stanford | 142 | |
| 4. | No. 28 West Virginia | 207 | 4. | No. 8 New Mexico | 166 | |
| 5. | No. 4 Notre Dame | 216 | 5. | No. 6 N. Arizona | 178 | |
| 6. | No. 17 New Mexico | 236 | 6. | No. 10 Wisconsin | 199 | |
| 7. | No. 5 NC State | 293 | 7. | Notre Dame | 200 | |
| 8 | No. 13 Wisconsin | 348 | 8. | Syracuse | 258 | |
| 9 | RV Florida State | 364 | 9. | Cal Baptist | 312 | |
| 10 | No. 11 Florida | 368 | 10. | Harvard | 327 | |
This story will be updated.
