Joseph Hovey | Posted: 24 Jun 2022 | Updated: 8 Dec 2022

Shurts takes second with top-10 mark at USATF Championships

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Dallin Shurts competes at the 2022 NCAA West Prelims.

EUGENE, Ore. — BYU thrower Dallin Shurts took second in the discus at the U.S. Track and Field Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field on Thursday. 

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Shurts' mark is a new personal-record and good for No. 6 all-time at BYU, surpassing one set by Lars Sundin in 1986. 

While the collegiate season has ended, competition has not for Shurts and a handful of other BYU athletes who qualified for the chance to advance to the World Athletics Championships in July. 

Kenneth Rooks advanced the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase final with a 10th-place first round finish at 8:29.44. Garrett Marsing joined Rooks in the steeplechase, finishing 23rd. 

Lauren Ellsworth-Barnes and Sebastian Fernandez competed in the women's and men's 800m, respectively, though both failed to advance beyond the opening round. 

Former BYU mid-distance national champion Anna Camp-Bennett ran 2:02.34 in the 800m and advances to the Friday semifinal. 

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