Texas Track and Field | Okolo Wins Two Golds at NACACC

SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica — Running for Team USA, University of Texas sprinter Courtney Okolo won two gold medals at the North America Central America Caribbean Championships over the weekend.

Okolo easily won the 400 meters, crossing the finish line in 51.57 seconds, nearly a half a second faster than teammate Kala Funderburk, who won the silver medal in 52.22.[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level2)] Her time was enough to comfortably win the final, but was not even her best time in the event; in the preliminary round, Okolo set a new NACACC record in 50.82 seconds. (Continue reading below…)

(…continued from above.) Okolo helped to set another record when she ran the anchor leg of the gold medal-winning 4×400-meter relay that won the event in 3:25.39 seconds, a time that broke the previous meet record by nearly four seconds.

Okolo’s NACACC performance caps off a summer of enormous success for past and current Longhorns at assorted championships. UT athletes won three gold medals at the Pan American Games and six, including four gold, at the Pan Am Junior Championships.

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