PROVO -- Kyle Perry earned his third Mountain West Conference Athlete of the Week honor this season after his national qualifying time on Saturday at the Husky Classic in Seattle.
Perry set his second national automatic qualifying mark of the 2008 indoor season on Saturday, this time in the men's 3,000-meter run. The Sandy, Utah, native clocked a time of 7:51.20 at the Husky Classic in Seattle to finish second. Perry also set a national qualifying mark of 3:59.16 in the mile run on Feb. 2 on the same track.
His time was not only a personal-best, but it is also a MWC all-time record and currently ranks third in the nation, according to TrackShark.com. It is the fastest time in the Conference by more than 13 seconds. Perry finished behind Northern Arizona's David McNeill, who owns the second-fastest time in the nation this season, and also competed against athletes from No. 2 Arizona State, No. 3 Texas A&M, No. 10 Kentucky and No. 12 Oregon.