Good Sports: Fresno native wins NCAA indoor track and field championship

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The mean idiosyncratic tin tally a mile successful astir nine-and-a-half minutes, but Georgetown's Abel Teffra tin bash it successful nether four.

"The past similar 50 meters, I felt similar I had different cogwheel successful me," helium said. "With astir similar 10 meters to go, I looked to my right, I looked to my left, I spot nary 1 coming up and I enactment my hands out. It was conscionable a large feeling."

The Fresno autochthonal is not lone fast. He's the fastest successful the nation.

Teffra conscionable won the NCAA indoor rubric with a mile clip of 3:53.

"This infinitesimal meant a batch for me," helium said.

He broke the erstwhile NCAA indoor grounds held by Olympic Gold Medalist, Cole Hocker.

"I diary a lot, I constitute a lot," Teffra said. "I wrote astir however I'm built for these moments and it means truthful overmuch for maine to adjacent beryllium here, truthful the full time was conscionable awesome."

Teffra went to Central East High School.

"I'm a steadfast believer that the Central Valley breeds a batch of the world's champion athletes," helium said. "I don't adjacent cognize however galore radical we person from Fresno successful the NFL close now."

Five years ago, Action News was astatine Teffra's signing day.

At the time, the young runner was deciding betwixt the University of Portland, Cal and Georgetown.

"It astir felt impulsive astatine the time," helium said. "I came to Georgetown and I was welcomed in, appreciated and the remainder is history."

With a nationalist rubric successful hand, Teffra says helium hopes his moving travel is lone getting started, with a nonrecreational vocation and Olympic dreams connected the horizon.

"I don't privation to get a occupation aft college," helium said. "I privation to support running, truthful that's conscionable benignant of been my driving force."

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