Feb. 2, 2016
- USTFCCCA Release
NEW ORLEANS, LA- Brannon Kidder used the two day Penn State National meet this past weekend to showcase his talents as he laid down two top-three NCAA marks this season in both the 800-meters and as the anchor leg on the Penn State DMR earning him USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week honors.
Kidder ran twice - once as the anchor on the Nittany Lions' Distance Medley Relay and then again on Saturday in the 800 - and shined each time.
During the DMR, Kidder used a strong kick to come from behind to beat Stanford's Sean McGorty. Kidder split 3:55, which helped Penn State not only win the race, but move up to fourth on the all-time collegiate list.
In the 800-meters, Kidder went up against one of the strongest fields of the weekend and won by .36 seconds. Kidder's time of 1:47.01 is third on the National Descender Order List for NCAA Division I and first in the Big Ten. Kidder's time broke the meet record of 1:47.36 set by former Nittany Lion Casimir Loxsom in 2011, just missing the facility and school record of 1:46.98 by four one-hundredths of a second (0.04).
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Information from USTFCCCA was used in this release.