Mizzou track and field junior Karissa Schweizer secured her second NCAA National Championship of the year at the Indoor Championships in College Station, Texas, this weekend. She previously won the NCAA Cross Country National Championship in November.

Schweizer completed the 5,000-meter race with a time of 15 minutes and 19.14 seconds, finishing eight seconds ahead of the second-place finisher. Her time surpasses both her previous personal record and the school record of 15:37.40, which she set on Dec. 3, 2016, at the Boston University Season Opener. Her performance is currently ranked fifth all-time in indoor collegiate history.

“I definitely just went with the way the race played out, and I was just trying to stay relaxed either way,” Schweizer said in a news release from Mizzou Athletics. “I was planning for it to go out hard, with the girls I was in it with, and make it an honest race. I was really happy about it and stayed relaxed as I could till 400 to go.”

Schweizer maintained her position near the front of the runners before using her kick to separate herself in the last 400 meters. She now becomes the fourth woman to win an individual national champion, and 16th person overall, in program history.

In addition, Schweizer becomes the program’s third two-time national champion track and field athlete and the first woman to accomplish the feat in program history.

Schweizer and the rest of the team now shift their focus to the outdoor season, as the Tigers’ distance team prepares for the Stanford Invitational from March 30 to April 1 in Palo Alto, California.

_Edited by Eli Lederman | elederman@themaneater.com_