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Track and field: North Rockland phenom Katelyn Tuohy captures silver at NCAA championships

Katelyn Tuohy, the former star high school runner from North Rockland, ran to an unexpected second-place finish in the women's 5,000-meter race at the NCAA Division I Track and Field Championships Friday in Birmingham, Alabama.

The North Carolina State runner, who won multiple Gatorade national high school running awards and was named Gatorade's top American female high school athlete for all sports as a sophomore, ran a personal-best 15:30.63.

Her time was just 0.46 behind winner Courtney Wayment, a BYU senior.

The sophomore had qualified for the race as the 15th seed with a time of 15:41.51.

North Carolina State's Katelyn Tuohy, who graduated from North Rockland High School, finished second in the women's 5,000 meters at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships in Birmingham, Alabama on March 11, 2022.
North Carolina State's Katelyn Tuohy, who graduated from North Rockland High School, finished second in the women's 5,000 meters at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships in Birmingham, Alabama on March 11, 2022.

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Her teammates, junior Kelsey Chmiel, a former rival from Saratoga Springs, and junior Alexandra Hays, who's from Long Island, had been seeded higher but finished fifth and ninth, respectively.

Tuohy's time was the second fastest ever clocked by a female North Carolina State runner indoors at the distance.

With her silver-winning performance, Tuohy gained All-American honors for a fourth time as a collegiate athlete.

She was also an All-American in cross-country last fall after helping the Wolfpack to their first national title. The three-time national high school cross-country champion placed 15th out of 250 runners in the championship cross-country race.

Tuohy also gained collegiate All-American honors in both cross-country and as a member of the Pack's indoor distance medley relay team as a freshman.

Nancy Haggerty covers cross-country, track & field, field hockey, skiing, ice hockey, girls lacrosse and other sporting events for The Journal News/lohud. Follow her on Twitter at both @HaggertyNancy and at @LoHudHockey.

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