{"id":334502,"date":"2026-06-13T02:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334502\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T02:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:43:10","slug":"olu-williams-places-11th-at-ncaa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334502\/","title":{"rendered":"Olu Williams Places 11th at NCAA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

EUGENE, Ore. \u2014 UNT sophomore Oluwatimilehim Williams<\/a> capped off his record-breaking season with an 11th-place finish in the discus on Friday at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships and was named a Second Team All-American with a throw of 59.90 meters.<\/p>\n

The finish was second only\u00a0to former UNT great KeAyla Dove’s 10th-place showing in 2023 in women’s shot put, for Mean Green athletes at the NCAA Outdoor Championship since 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“When Olu first got here, his personal best wouldn’t have even gotten him to regionals, so for him to get here and throw a PB to get him to national championship just shows the dedication he has to the sport\u00a0and the sacrifices\u00a0he’s made in his life,” said throws coach Marco A. Brown<\/a>.\u00a0“To throw the second-best throw of your life at the NCAA Championships,\u00a0which is biggest stage in college track and field\u00a0and only miss the final by two spots hurts, but it shows what’s to come later and what he can do when he grows into the best version of himself.<\/p>\n

“The only thing we can do now is get back to Denton, get back to work, and the next time we show up here, prepare and work for a better result. I’m very proud of him and he did a hell of a job. I couldn’t ask for anything more.”<\/p>\n

Williams was joined in Eugene by junior sprinter Aariyana Williams<\/a>, who competed in the women’s 400 meters on Thursday night and finished 21st with a time of 52.31 to give her the five fastest times in program history and Honorable Mention All-American status.<\/p>\n

“I’m extremely proud of both Aari and Olu, finishing their seasons at the highest level of competition is always an accomplishment that deserves to be celebrated,” director of track and field Doug Marshall<\/a> said. “I thought both of them came out and competed to the highest of their abilities, and that’s all you can ask for as a coach. They will both be back stronger and more motivated than ever.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EUGENE, Ore. \u2014 UNT sophomore Oluwatimilehim Williams capped off his record-breaking season with an 11th-place finish in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-334502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334502","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=334502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}