Kimutai Named American Women’s Track Athlete of the Week

IRVING, Texas – The American Conference announced today the league's men's and women's outdoor track and field athletes of the week for competition March 23-29 with Tulane's Blezzin Kimutai claiming the women's track honor.

This is the first weekly honor of Kimutai's career in track and her second overall. She claimed a cross country weekly nod in October 2025. Kimutai is the first weekly honoree for Tulane in outdoor track since Janae Dean earned the award on April 22 last season.

Kimutai shined last weekend in the 5,000m at the Raleigh Relays, running a 15:54.81 in a rain-affected event. Despite the wet conditions, Kimutai placed 13^th in the event, and with multiple non-NCAA-affiliated athletes competing, her time checks in as the ninth-best mark in the NCAA this season. Her time was blocked from being the best in program history by only her own mark of 15:52.12 from one year prior. She remains the only athlete in program history to break 16 minutes in the event.

Tulane will look to carry this momentum into the first of two-straight trips to the Lone Star State as the Green Wave travels to San Marcos, Texas, this weekend for the Bobcat Invitational. The three-day event hosted by Texas State begins on Thursday, April 2, and concludes on Saturday, April 4.

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Kimutai Named American Women’s Track Athlete of the Week

Players Mentioned

Janae Dean

Blezzin Kimutai

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