Sprinter Cheickna Traore capped one of the best seasons in Penn State track history, winning the 200-meter title at the 2024 NCAA Track & Field Championships.
Cheickna Traore completed one of the greatest seasons in Penn State track history, winning the 200-meter title at the 2024 NCAA Track & Field Championships. Traore won Penn State's first NCAA individual outdoor title title since 2008 and the first 200-meter national championship in school history. Traore also became Penn State's first NCAA outdoor sprint champ since Barney Ewell won two events at the 1941 championships.
"What a perfect ending to the journey that coach Rizzo and Cheick have been on this year," Penn State track & field coach John Gondak said in athletic department release. "NCAA Champion! I'm so proud of all Cheick did to represent Penn State this year, even though he isn't finished, as he will continue his journey and run at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer."
Traore won the 200-meter final in 19.95 seconds, punctuating a season in which he set multiple Penn State records. A graduate student from Linden, N.J., Traore ran a school-record time of 10.15 seconds in the 100-meter dash at the NCAA East Region Preliminaries. He also ran a time of 19.93 in the 200 at the event, setting another Penn State record. With that time, Traore also achieved the Olympic standard. Traore will compete for Ivory Coast in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Traore was a Division III track star at Ramapo College before transferring to Penn State for his final season. He set Division III records in the indoor and outdoor 200 at Ramapo and won three national titles in 2023.this spring. "Now I want to win a title, obviously, that's the goal. But after that, I want to make an Olympic final and once I do that in my career, I want to become an Olympic champion. It's things like that you have to work towards.
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