Lanham Tabbed Summit League Men’s Track Athlete of the Year
3/27/2025 3:00:00 PM | Track and Field
Tory Lanham takes home yet another conference award; this time being named the best men’s track athlete of the 2025 indoor season in the Summit League
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Kansas City Track and Field saw yet another award enter the trophy case Thursday afternoon as sophomore sprinter Tory Lanham took home Summit League Men's Track Athlete of the Year honors, becoming the first Roo since Anthony Boyer in 2009-10 to win the award. Lanham completes the 2025 indoor season with a surfeit of awards including three Peak Performer of the Week accords, the SLIC Men's Track MVP trophy and now the end-of-year Men's Track Athlete of the Year.
Lanham started the indoor campaign as a major athlete to watch for the Roos and made his name known on the national level quickly, running a 21.01 second time at the Alexis Jarrett Invitational to set a then KC program record for the indoor men's 200-meter dash. The Kansas City, Mo. native carried that momentum throughout the entirety of the 2025 indoor season, remaining at the top of the conference rankings in the 200m.
Lanham ran a sub-21.10 time on four separate occasions in his latest campaign and broke his own 200m record when he dashed a 20.93 time at the Missouri Invitational to become the first Roo in school history to break the sub-21 second barrier. The sophomore's impressive 20.93 time was also the lone sub-21 second 200m time across the Summit League.
To finish the season, Lanham grabbed gold in the 200m, running a stellar time of 21.07 seconds, his third best of the indoor year. Additionally, Lanham nabbed the silver in the 60-meter dash thanks to a season-best mark of 6.80 seconds and was the second leg of Kansas City's silver medal-winning 4x400-meter relay squad. The splendid showing by the sophomore earned Lanham the Summit League Indoor Championship Men's Track MVP.
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