“I still felt good. Coming off the turn down the home stretch, I just tried to give whatever I have for that last 150 (meters) and got on his shoulder, That’s another mental thing, when someone’s right on your shoulder near the end, you start to feel it. It can hurt. And I feel like that got to him mentally. Once I looked over and saw him fading back, I felt a little relieved. But I also felt like someone else (eventual runner-up Marco Arop of Mississippi State) was coming on my outside, so I was just, like, ‘Just finish the race.”