EUGENE, Ore. – Portland junior Estanis Ruiz bested his own personal and school record with a time of 8:28.15 in Friday's 3,000-Meter Steeplechase finals at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field. He finished in sixth place overall to garner podium and first team All-America honors and is the 36th Pilot to earn All-America recognition for outdoor track & field.

Ruiz qualified for the finals after posting a new school record of 8:29.00 during Wednesday's semifinals, bettering the previous school mark of 8:35.28 by Riley Osen (2022).

Ruiz became the 64th Pilot to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships since 1992 as Portland has been represented at 31 of the last 32 national meets. He is the 13th runner on The Bluff to run in the Steeplechase at the NCAA meet and first since Osen in 2018.

He joins a distinguished list of Pilot Steeplechase All-Americans:

Portland Steeplechase All-Americans
Todd Davis – 1996, 1999
Bryan Bothwell – 1997, 1998
Jared Bassett – 2011
Noah Schutte – 2017
Riley Osen – 2018
Estanis Ruiz – 2024

2024 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
Eugene, Ore. (Hayward Field)
June 5-8, 2024

Friday, June 7
3,000m Steeplechase Finals
1. Parker Stokes (Georgetown), 8:24.58
2. Nathan Mountain (Virginia), 8:25.71
3. Gable Sieperda (Iowa State), 8:25.92
4. Abdelhakim Abouzouhir (Eastern Kentucky), 8:27.09
5. CJ Singleton (Notre Dame), 8:27.46
6. Estanis Ruiz* (Portland), 8:28.15
7. Yasin Sado (Virginia), 8:28.17
8. Alexander Korczynski (Northeastern), 8:29.42
9. James Corrigan (BYU), 8:29.61
10. Jackson Shorten (Princeton), 8:29.84
11. Tom Seitzer (Notre Dame), 8:35.70
12. Levi Taylor (Montana State), 8:43.47 

Wednesday, June 5
3,000m Steeplechase Semifinals (Heat)
1. James Corrigan (BYU), 8:28.84 Q (2)
2. Estanis Ruiz (Portland), 8:29.00 Q (2)
3. CJ Singleton (Notre Dame), 8:29.23 Q (2)
4. Yasin Sado (Virginia), 8:30.03 Q (2)
5. Jackson Shorten (Princeton), 8:31.68 Q (2)
6. Tom Seitzer (Notre Dame), 8:32.46 q (2)
7. Abdelhakim Abouzouhir (Eastern Kentucky), 8:32.58 Q (1)
8. Nathan Mountain (Virginia), 8:32.92 Q (1)
9. Parker Stokes (Georgetown), 8:32.95 Q (1)
10. Gable Sieperda (Iowa State), 8:32.96 Q (1)
11. Levi Taylor (Montana State), 8:33.11 Q (1)
12. Alexander Korczynski (Northeastern), 8:33.13 q (1)
13. Rob McManus (Montana State), 8:33.43 (1)
14. Victor Shitsama (Oklahoma State), 8:35.30 (2)
15. Brett Gardner (NC State), 8:37.77 (1)
16. Luke Labatte (North Dakota), 8:41.70 (1)
17. Caleb Jarema (Michigan) 8:41.95 (2)
18. Carlos Santos (Stony Brook), 8:43.07 (2)
19. Kole Mathison (Colorado), 8:51.95 (1)
20. Hayden Harward (Southern Utah), 8:52.35 (2)
21. Kristian Imroth (Eastern Kentucky), 8:52.92 (1)
22. Wyatt Haughton (BYU) 9:00.96 (2)
23. Owen Smith (Montana State), 9:04.23 (1)
24. Victor Kibiego (Texas A&M), DNF (2)

*New School and Personal Record
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