{"id":263275,"date":"2026-04-23T20:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263275\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:45:07","slug":"kalmar-named-wac-mens-track-athlete-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263275\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalmar Named WAC Men\u2019s Track Athlete of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     ARLINGTON, Texas \u2013 UT Arlington&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/alex-kalmar\/14784\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14784\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Kalmar<\/a> has earned Western Athletic Conference weekly honors after his standout performance at the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Kalmar earned first place in the men&#8217;s 800m, while setting the new UTA program record with a time of 1:46.86. The senior ranks 30th\u00a0in the country and 14th\u00a0in the West region. He also ranks first in the WAC in the men&#8217;s 800m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n2026 WAC Outdoor Track &amp; Field Weekly Awards<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMEN&#8217;S OUTDOOR TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/alex-kalmar\/14784\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14784\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Kalmar<\/a>, UT Arlington<\/p>\n<p>MEN&#8217;S OUTDOOR FIELD ATHLETE OF THE WEEK<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0Bronis MacDougall, Southern Utah<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWOMEN&#8217;S OUTDOOR TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nVictoria Cameron, Tarleton State<\/p>\n<p>WOMEN&#8217;S OUTDOOR FIELD ATHLETE OF THE WEEK<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nGrace Degarimore, Utah Valley<\/p>\n<p>NEXT UP<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Mavericks will continue the outdoor season, traveling to the OU O&#8217;Ring Alumni Open in Norman, Okla., at the John Jacobs Track &amp; Field Complex. The competition is set for Friday, April 24 through Saturday, April 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;#BuckEm&#8211;<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW ALONG<br \/>\nFollow the UTA track and field and cross country teams on X (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UTAMAVSTFXC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UTAMavsTFXC<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/utamavsTFXC\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UTAMavsTFXC<\/a>) and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UTAMavsTFXC\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/UTAMavsTFXC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; ARLINGTON, Texas \u2013 UT Arlington&#8217;s Alex Kalmar has earned Western Athletic Conference weekly honors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-263275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}