GENEVA, Ohio – Junior Kevin Turlington of the St. Olaf College men's track and field team finished his season with Second Team All-America honors and an 11th-place finish in the 5,000-meter run at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Saturday afternoon at the SPIRE Institute.

After finishing 11th nationally in the event earlier this year, Turlington replicated the feat in his first national outdoor meet by clocking in at 14:23.51 to earn his second Second Team All-America accolade of the year. The junior's 11th-place performance was the highest national finish for an Ole in the event since 1987 and the second-highest in recorded program history.

Turlington was 14th in the field of 22 runners midway through the race before moving up to ninth – one spot outside of the First Team All-America spots – with one lap to go but settled for 11th place. Turlington entered the meet as the No. 21 seed in the event but used his freshness to finish 10 spots higher after 12 of the other 21 runners competed in either the 10,000-meter run or 3,000-meter steeplechase earlier in the meet.

In his junior season, Turlington earned an All-America accolade in each of his three seasons of competition, as he was 23rd nationally in cross country in the fall. St. Olaf finished ended the national meet with no team points, although both of its qualifiers came away with Second Team All-America honors after junior Ignatius Fitzgerald was ninth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase on Friday.