Rio Grande's Becca Spohn earned All-American status after finishing fifth in Friday's 3,000-meter race walk at the NAIA Women's Indoor Track & Field Championship in Gainesville, Fla.

Posted: Mar 06, 2026

Rio's Spohn earns All-American status

Rio Grande Sports Information
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - University of Rio Grande junior Becca Spohn earned an All-American nod by finishing fifth in the 3,000-meter race walk in Friday's action in the 46th Annual NAIA Women's Indoor Track & Field National Championship at the Alachua County Sports & Events Center at Celebration Pointe.
Spohn, a native of New Concord, Ohio, posted a time of 15:53.66, which was good enough for a seventh place finish.
The top eight finishers were named All-Americans.
Also on Friday, junior Laura Hamm (South Point, OH) participated in the preliminaries of the one mile run, but failed to qualify for Saturday's final after finishing 16th with a time of 5:12.66.
Saturday's schedule includes the 5,000-meter run, in which Rio senior Amarissa Kerns (Lancaster, OH) will be a participant. Race time is set for 3:55 p.m.
Kerns' time of 17:29.25 is the ninth-fastest among the 50 qualifiers in the event.
Live results can be found online at http://live.halfmiletiming.com/meets/901/events.
Live video will be available at http://www.NAIANetwork.com and at https://urbanedgenetwork.net/.