University of Houston Athletics
Elijah Hall Remains on The Bowerman Watch List
6/4/2018 2:55:00 PM | Track and Field
Senior enters season’s final weekend on prestigious award list
HOUSTON – With the 2018 NCAA Track & Field season in its final week, Houston Cougar sprinter Elijah Hall remains on the watch list for the sport's most prestigious award, The Bowerman, the USTFCCCA announced Monday.
The Bowerman, NCAA Track & Field's most prestigious award, is granted to the top men's and women's track & field athlete in a given year. The Bowerman watch list is updated throughout the season to reflect athletes' performances from week to week. Hall has landed on each of the previous watch lists for the Post-Indoor and Mid-Outdoor earlier this season.
Hall found himself on the watch post-indoor watch list on March 15 after one of the most successful sprint campaigns in NCAA Indoor Championship history. The Katy, Texas, native opened the championships with Houston's first-ever NCAA Championship in the 60-meter dash, running the program's second-fastest time at 6.52.
The senior had one more historic run to make in the finals of the 200-meter dash later in the afternoon. After exploding out of the blocks, Hall cruised one-lap around the track in 20.02 to clock the second-fastest time in world history in the indoor 200. Hall's time broke Wallace Spearmon's 13-year old mark of 20.10 and set new American, Collegiate and NCAA Championship records in the process.
Hall earned First-Team All-America honors for each event, becoming the ninth Cougar to claim the award in the 60 and just the second to claim the award in the 200. Hall scored 20 points for the Cougars in the championship meet, which would have placed him 10th overall in the team standings by himself.
Hall has carried his success into the outdoor slate, where he booked his first trip as an individual to the NCAA Outdoor Championships, when he qualified with the fourth-fastest time in the 100-meter dash at the NCAA West Prelims at 10.22. Hall has also been a member of Houston's 4x100-meter relay squad which will compete at the championships.
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