ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Augsburg University track and field athletes Allison Hookom (JR, Anoka, Minn./Anoka HS) and Mohammed Bati (JR, Dodola, Ethiopia/GAP School) earned All-American honors for the first time in their careers, with Hookom finishing third in the women's 400-meter dash and Bati finishing seventh in the men's 5,000-meter run over the weekend at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field National Championships at Nazareth University's Golisano Training Center.

ALLISON HOOKOM
• Competing in her third NCAA national championship meet in the women's 400, Hookom qualified for the finals with a school-record 56.39-second effort in the preliminaries on Friday, breaking the old school record of 56.81 seconds, set in 1989 by five-time Augsburg national champion and eight-time All-American Carolyn Ross Isaak. She had qualified for nationals with the 16th-fastest time among the 20 national meet entrants with a 57.01-second time.
• In Saturday's national championship race, Hookom finished second in the second of two four-person heats, rallying from fourth place to second in the final 100 meters. She claimed her second straight school record, this time in 56.15 seconds, third-fastest of the eight finalists. Brynn Mooney of SUNY-Geneseo (N.Y.), who won the second heat, won the national title in 55.69 seconds, followed by McKensie Reser of Augustana (Ill.), who won the first heat in 55.82 seconds.
• It's Hookom's third straight time reaching the indoor national meet in the 400; she finished in 18th place in 57.67 seconds in 2024 and in 20th place in 59.71 seconds in 2023.
• The 2024 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titlist in the 400- and 600-meter dashes, Hookom has won four MIAC championships, and has earned All-MIAC (top three) finishes seven times, while earning All-MIAC Honorable Mention (places 4 to 6) finishes twice. She won both the 400- and 600-meter dashes at the 2024 MIAC Championships, earning co-MIAC Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year honors.
• Hookom is the 36th NCAA Division III All-American in Augsburg women's track and field history, and the first since the 2014 season. Augsburg has had 64 national meet qualifiers in indoor and outdoor track and field, with 59 in NCAA Division III competition and five in NAIA competition.
 
MOHAMMED BATI

• Bati earned his first NCAA All-American honor in his first national meet of his college career, finishing seventh in the men's 5,000-meter run on Friday in 14:18.62. He was in the top 15 of the 20-runner race throughout, moving into the top 10 halfway through the race and reaching as high as third place with 600 meters remaining.
• The 14:18.62 is the second-fastest time for Bati in the indoor 5,000 in his nine career races. He set a school-record and MIAC all-time indoor record 14:15.33 time set on Jan. 24 at the St. Olaf Invitational. He won the MIAC indoor championship for the second time in his career on Feb. 28 with a 14:38.06 effort, while finishing second in the 3,000-meter run in 8:23.52. He has won four conference titles in his career.
• Bati has had a remarkable 2024-25 school year; in cross country in the fall, he won the MIAC men's title for the third straight year, won the NCAA North Region title and placed second at the NCAA Division III National Championships.
• Bati is the 12th NCAA Division III All-American in Augsburg men's track and field history, and the first since six-time All-American Emmanuel Egbujor earned a pair of All-American honors in 2018. Augsburg has had 25 national meet qualifiers in indoor and outdoor track and field, with 24 in NCAA Division III competition and one in NAIA competition.