Sweet Home alum Dakotah Keys moved from fifth place to third in the final event of the NCAA Division I National Championships decathlon event Thursday
Keys finished second in the 1500-meter run in 4:28.29, just short of his best of 4:24.21 clocked earlier this season, to score a personal-best total of 8068 points, good for third behind last year’s winner Johannes Hock of Texas, who finished second (8092) and Maicel Uibo of Georgia (8182), who finished the 1500 seven-tenths of a second behind Keys.
For more on Keys’ achievement, including video coverage, see the June 18 issue of The New Era and visit sweethomenews.com Wednesday.