Freshman Shatters School Record at NCAA Championship

Freshman shatters school record at NCAA championship

Ruth White of Orono finished ninth in the 10,000-meter run at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Thursday night, smashing her own school record with a time of 32:20.60.

Ruth White finishes in top 10 for entire country at 10,000 meter final

In just her freshman season, Ruth White is already an All-American. The University of New Hampshire distance runner turned in another gutsy performance in the 10,000 meters, this time at NCAA Division I nationals, and is now one of the top 10 women’s runners at that distance in the entire country. White finished ninth out of 24 competitors at Thursday night’s national final in Eugene, Oregon. That performance in the 6.2 mile race earns her a spo…

USF’s Vincent Ugwoke chases NCAA glory

Vincent Ugwoke stepped off a plane into a snowstorm just after midnight in Concordia, Kansas, in 2022.  He’d just flown over 6,000 miles to the U.S. from Nsukka, Nigeria — alone and carrying nothing but a bag full of clothes made for the wrong weather. Three years later, the senior is one of the […] The post USF’s Vincent Ugwoke chases NCAA glory appeared first on The Oracle.

Two Mainers competing in NCAA track championships

Orono’s Ruth White is at her first NCAA championships, and Cumberland’s Victoria Bossong is closing out her college career.