Auburn, Ala. - Senior Ryan Kinnane of the Auburn track & field team was selected as the 2024 SEC Men's Indoor Track & Field Co-Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the conference office announced Wednesday.
The distance runner from Wichita, Kansas earned his undergraduate degree in aviation management with a minor in business in spring 2023. Kinnane had a 3.95 undergraduate grade point average and is working on his Master of Business Administration with a 4.0.
It is the third year in a row that Kinnane has won the SEC Men's Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award. Kinnane is the first Auburn track & field athlete to ever win three SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year Awards. He won the SEC Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2022 and 2023. Last cross country season, he was awarded SEC Runner of the Week, fall SEC Academic Honor Roll and was the first Auburn cross country man to win UTSFCCCA National Athlete of the Week honors.
The highlight of Kinnane's 2024 indoor season came at the Razorback Invitational when he broke a 42-year-old Auburn record in the mile with a time of 3:58.28.
Kinnane shares this year's Scholar-Athlete of the Year with Missouri's Mitchell Weber, South Carolina's Dylan Targgart, and Tennessee's Jacob Lewis. McKenzie Long of Ole Miss and Lamara Distin of Texas A&M won the award on the women's side.
The winning student-athletes will be recognized at the SEC Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas Feb. 23-24.