Oliver Alexandre

Western Kentucky’s Oliver Alexandre has earned his second Conference USA Male Track Athlete of the Week accolade of the 2019 campaign, the league office announced Tuesday.

The Hilltopper senior posted a pair of podium finishes at the Kentucky-hosted Rod McCravy Memorial Invite over the weekend.

“Another solid performance by Oliver this past weekend,” head coach Erik Jenkins said in a news release. “He had a solid opener in the 400 and gave us a quality leg on the 4×400 relay.”

Individually, Alexandre posted a time of 47.30 seconds in the 400-meter dash for the squad’s fastest mark of the season and an indoor personal-best. The performance earned Alexandre third place overall – second among collegians – and first in his heat. His mark currently ranks fifth among all C-USA times and in the top-50 nationally.

Alexandre ran the second leg of WKU’s second-place 4×400-meter relay as the unit turned in C-USA’s top time since the 2013-14 campaign. The squad’s time of 3:08.07 ranks 18th in the nation and third all time in the Hilltopper record book.

Alexandre’s second honor is the seventh Male Track Athlete of the Week nod collected by a Hilltopper during the indoor season since the squad joined C-USA.