Allie Ostrander, a 2015 graduate of Kenai Central, was named the 2019 Mountain West Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Student-Athlete of the Year on Monday.
Ostrander, a redshirt junior at Boise State in Idaho, is the first women’s athlete to win the award, which is voted on by the league’s coaches, in back-to-back-to-back years.
The award continues a string of threes for Ostrander. She won the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on June 8 with a school-record time of 9 minutes, 37.73 seconds. The Soldotna runner became the first woman to wear three straight steeplechase crowns, and also the 15th woman to nab three straight in the same event.
Ostrander also placed 16th in the 5,000 at the meet, garnering second-team All-America honors.
Last week, Ostrander was named a semifinalist for The Bowerman, which is track and field’s highest honor.
