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CINCINNATI –  Winny Koskei won the women's 10,000m and multiple men advanced to the finals on Day One of The American Athletic Conference Championships at Gettler Stadium.
 
Redshirt freshman Winny Koskei became the first Shocker to win an American Athletic Conference outdoor title. Koskei won the 10,000m with a time of 35:21.14, including a 74 second final lap.
 
"We are really excited for Winny," said distance coach Kirk Hunter. "Where she has come from last year, she was not the runner that she is today. She trained really hard over the summer, put in the miles, came back and was good in cross country. Comes into the indoor season and scores some points in the 5k, then she comes into outdoor and wins the conference. That is just an amazing escalation and performance that she has done throughout the year."
 
Koskei has a day of rest before she competes in the 5000m race Sunday night, she enters that race as the No. 2 seed behind Hannah Miller of SMU.
 
Amanda Kakoulias, Cassidy Androff and Paula Garcia each finished the day with a personal best in their respected event. Kakoulias led the Shockers in the hammer throw finishing 18th with a mark of 43.51m/142-9, followed by Androff in 21st with a mark of 42.07m/138-0. Garcia ran a personal best in the 200m finishing with a time of 24.49.
 
Gage Garcia placed fourth in the men's 10,000m with a personal best time of 31:31.88. Isaiah Evans placed fourth in the men's hammer with a throw of 56.28m/185-7.
 
Multiple Shocker men qualified for the finals of their respected events. Most notably is the men's 400m hurdles duo of Austin Corley and Isaac Poe, each qualified running sub-52 times. Corley automatically qualified winning the first heat with the fourth fastest time overall of 51.82, Poe qualified with the third fastest time overall and a personal best 51.64.
 
The 400m hurdles wasn't the only event that multiple Shockers made the final in, Zack Penrod and Stan Skwarlo, III each qualified for the 800m finals on Sunday. Penrod recorded the sixth fastest time of 1:52.58, followed by Skwarlo with a personal best time of 1:53.07.
 
"Coming into the race Stan was ranked No. 13," said Hunter "He's an underdog that people haven't seen…he's won some good races and ran some fast races, but he's never hit a perfect day of weather so I knew he could run faster. He negative split, that's the biggest thing, he went 56.8 then 56.2 and it's hard to run that kind of 800m. He squeaked into the final and that is a huge accomplishment on his part."
 
Finals for the men's 400m hurdles and 800m take place Sunday evening, the 400m hurdles are slated for 5:15 p.m., and the 800m is at 4:55 p.m. All times are central
 

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The Shocker men finished day one of the decathlon well, placing two athletes in the top-five and three in the top-six. Juniors Ben Johnson and Kaden Griffin lead the group of multi-athletes, Johnson finished the day in third with a score of 3,763 and Griffin in fourth with 3,747 points.
 
Johnson won the shot put with a personal best mark of 14.15m/46-5.25. Johnson finished in the top three in three of the five events on day one, he placed fourth in the long jump (6.76m/22-2.25) and high jump (1.92m/6-3.5).
 
Not to be outdone by Johnson, Griffin had a strong showing in day one as well. He finished in the top five in four of the five events, including a second place finish in the 400m with a time of 49.72.
 
Redshirt freshman Jake Horsch sits in sixth place with 3,641 points. Horsch set personal bests in the 100m (11.01) and 400m (48.05). His 400m time set a decathlon 400m facility and meet record.
 
"I am really proud of the multi groups," said head track and field director Steve Rainbolt. "All the men and Kendra Henry really had strong first days and good performances, this will be an exciting day two for our multi event crew. The 400m that Jake ran was a special competitive effort and I'm really happy for him, same for Ben in the shot put. I'm also really proud of how Kaden is fighting hard through some significant aches and pains in an effort to battle up into the score."
 
Kendra Henry finished day one of the heptathlon with 2,930 points and currently sits in fourth place. Carlea Miles finished the day with 2,475 points.
 
The highlight of the day came when the pair finished first and second in the shot put with personal best marks. Miles won the event with a toss of 12.41m/40-8.75 and Henry followed with a mark of 12.13m/39-9.75.
 
Miles finished fifth in the 100m hurdles running 15.05 and Henry cleared 1.64m/5-4.5 to finish fifth in the high jump.
 
Day two of the multi-event competitions continue on Saturday, May 12, beginning with the decathlon 110m hurdles at 9:30 a.m., and the heptathlon long jump at 11 a.m. All times CT.