Emily Venters, a senior at Utah and the reigning Pac-12 Conference champion in the women's 10,000 meters as well as being the No. 6 competitor in collegiate history at 31:48.35, joins DyeStat editor Erik Boal to discuss her competition June 8 in the 10,000 and June 10 in the 5,000 at the NCAA Division 1 Championships at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas. Venters is one of six female athletes who qualified to compete in both the 5,000 and 10,000 at the Division 1 championship meet, along with Utah Valley's Everlyn Kemboi, North Carolina State's Kelsey Chmiel, Iowa State's Cailie Logue and New Mexico teammates Amelia Mazza-Downie and Gracelyn Larkin. She and teammate Simone Plourde, who is also entered in the 1,500, became the first women's teammates in program history to both qualify for the 5,000 final in the same year. Venters is looking to become the first female competitor since Jill Molen in 1982 to earn All-America first-team honors in both the 5,000 and 10,000 in the same year. She already placed 12th on Nov. 19 at the NCAA cross country final and was fifth in the 5,000 on March 11 at the Division 1 indoor championship meet in Albuquerque, N.M. Venters reflects on becoming the first Utah female athlete to capture a Pac-12 title May 12 at Mt. San Antonio College's Hilmer Lodge Stadium in Walnut, Calif., in addition to revisiting Plourde winning the 1,500 crown May 14 for the Utes. She explains what a significant impact Utah coach Kyle Kepler has had on her career, and how grateful she is to be able to train with athletes like Plourde and Bella Williams, and the potential for success Utah has in the future with Erin Vringer and Josefine Eriksen, among others. Venters examines her races at the Division 1 West Regional in Sacramento, and being able to qualify for both finals in an efficient manner, and the benefit from racing against several of the top challengers in Austin ahead of the Division 1 championship meet. She also analyzes how meaningful it would be to become the first Utah female athlete to win an NCAA title, with the Utes' only previous victories coming in 1927 in the men's javelin from Doral Pilling, and in 1943 and 1945 in the men's high jump from Fred Sheffield.