2017 DI NCAA Indoor Championships

Edward Cheserek Could Be The First Athlete To Win 3 Individual NCAA Golds

Edward Cheserek Could Be The First Athlete To Win 3 Individual NCAA Golds

Edward Cheserek has won a lot of NCAA titles. And the newly-minted collegiate record-holder in the mile is entered in three individual events at next week's NCAA Division I championship in College Station, Texas.

Feb 28, 2017 by Meg Bellino
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Edward Cheserek has won a lot of NCAA titles (see his epic DMR split above). And the newly-minted collegiate record-holder in the mile is entered in three individual events at next week's NCAA Division I championship in College Station, Texas.

The Oregon senior is entered in the mile, 3000m, and 5000m. No male or female athlete has ever won three individual events at the indoor championship.

Arizona's Lawi Lalang tried in 2014. He finished runner-up to Cheserek in the 5000m, runner-up to Anthony Rotich in the mile, and scratched the 3000m while in Albuquerque. Galen Rupp and Cheserek each won 3000m, 5000m, and DMR titles in 2009 and 2016, but three individual events? Never been done indoors!

Carlette Guidry amassed 30.5 points for Texas in 1988 when she won the 55m, long jump, 4x400m relay, and earned a silver medal in the 200m. She won three golds again in 1990 (55m, 200m, 4x4), and Dawn Sowell of LSU accomplished that same trio of golds (55m, 200m, 4x4) in 1989.

Watch Cheserek break the NCAA indoor mile record at the 2017 BU Last Chance Invitational: