OBroin and Breidenbach Earn All-America Status at NCAA Indoor Championships

(WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.) – Senior Michael OBroin (Park Ridge, Ill. / Saint Ignatius College Prep) and freshman Cody Breidenbach (Nazareth, Pa. / Nazareth Area) of the Carnegie Mellon University men's indoor track and field team both earned All-America recognition at the 2022 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships on Friday. The championships are being held at the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with Visit Winston-Salem and Guilford College serving as hosts.

OBroin competed in the 5,000-meter run and made-up five spots in the closing 200 meters of the race to place second with a school-record time of 14:16.30. He topped his previous record by 6.92 seconds and his second-place showing is the highest for a men's track and field athlete in program history at the indoor meet.

Breidenbach placed seventh in the weight throw with a mark of 18.60 meters. He becomes the first freshman male indoor track and field athlete in program history to earn All-America status and the first male field athlete to earn the status at the indoor championships.

Senior Justin Kiefel (Downingtown, Pa. / Downingtown STEM Academy) finished in 10th place in the long jump with a mark of 7.03 meters. Freshman Aleksei Seletskiy (Palo Alto, Calif. / Palo Alto) also competed at the championships on Friday. He ran in the preliminaries of the mile run and finished in 4:20.59 to place 19th.

The championships continue on Saturday with Kiefel competing in the triple jump and graduate student Bram Miller (Colgate, Wis. / Kettle Moraine Lutheran) in the shot put at 2:00 p.m.