UKTF Earns 23 All-America Honors

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Sixteen Wildcats of Kentucky track & field have been awarded 23 All-America honors by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for their top-notch performances at 2022 NCAA Indoor Championships over the weekend. 

The women’s team received 13 first-team All-America honors with one second team All-America honor, totaling 14 honors from nine competitors. 

The men’s team earned five first-team All-America honors and four second-team All-America honors, totaling nine honors from six competitors. 

This comes after the women’s team finished NCAA Indoor Championships as the third-place team with a school record 44 points, tying the best team finish in program history. 

UK’s men’s team finished tied for 21st with 10 points. 

Below is a list of each All-American and which honors they received. 

First-Team All-Americans 

Women 

• Abby Steiner – 60m, 200m, 4x400m 

• Karimah Davis – 200m, 4x400m 

• Alexis Holmes – 400m, 4x400m 

• Dajour Miles – 4x400m 

• Masai Russell – 60H 

• Tori Herman – DMR 

• Jenna Gearing – DMR 

• Jenna Schwinghamer – DMR 

• Megan Moss – DMR 

Men 

• Lance Lang – 200m, 4x400m 

• Dwight St. Hillaire – 4x400m  

• Brian Faust – 4x400m  

• Jacob Smith – 4x400m  

Second-Team All-Americans 

Women 

• Tori Herman – 3000m 

Men 

• Lance Lang – 60m 

• Dwight St. Hillaire – 400m 

• Keaton Daniel – Pole Vault 

• Luke Brown – Triple Jump 

Abby Steiner had the most first-team All-America honors as she defended her 200-meter national championship, breaking her meet record in the process, placed second in the 60m with a school record time of 7.10 and participated in the bronze 4x400m relay. 

Steiner led the Kentucky women’s track and field team to a school-record 44 points and third place as a team at the 2022 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, equaling the best team finish at the competition in school history. 

Steiner won the 200m in 22.16, breaking the meet record she tied last year (broke the tie with Harvard’s Gabby Thomas – now a two-time Olympic medalist) en route to the title a year ago.  

Her run was also the second fastest collegiate run ever, trailing her own collegiate and American record by only .07 that was set at 2022 SEC Championships. 

Steiner scored 10 points in the 200m, and another eight in the 60m, followed by being part of the bronze 4x400m relay that scored six points. 

Masai Russell took silver in the 60m hurdles (7.95), earning her first individual NCAA medal. UK’s women’s 4x400m relay (3:28.77) of Alexis Holmes, Steiner, Davis and Miles, plus the men’s 4×4 of Dwight St. Hillaire, Lance Lang, Brian Faust and Jacob Smith each took bronze medals, all earning first-team All-America honors. 

Holmes scored five points with a fourth-place finish in the women’s 400m (51.50). She tied her best NCAA Championship finish from when she finished fourth in the same race as a freshman at Penn State. 

Davis added three points to the 10 Steiner scored in the 200m, running 23.23 for her highest finish at NCAA Championships in her career and becoming a first-team All-American. 

The Kentucky track and field women’s distance medley relay of Jenna Gearing, Megan Moss, Jenna Schwinghamer and Tori Herman scored four points, placing fifth with a time of 11:02.41 to highlight UK’s first night of the NCAA Indoor Championships. Their relay performance earned Gearing, Schwinghamer and Herman their first first-team All-America honors. 
 
The DMR earned the Wildcats’ best NCAA finish in the event since 2013. The team ran their third-fastest time this season and second fastest when not taking conversions into account. 

Tori Herman made her 3000m NCAA Championship debut with a 9:13.70 run in finals for 16th place, earning second-team All-America honors. 

Lance Lang placed fifth in the men’s 200m with a 20.87 time to score four points, being named a first-team All-American. 

UK’s men’s 4x400m of Dwight St. Hillaire, Lang, Brian Faust and Jacob Smith earned six points with a bronze-medal run that clocked in at 3:04.64. 

Field athletes Keaton Daniel and Luke Brown placed 12th and 16th in the pole vault (17’6.5″/5.35m) and triple jump (48’4.75″/14.75m), respectively, both being named second-team All-Americans. 

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