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AUSTIN, Texas – University of Texas-Pan American Broncs men's outdoor track runner and McAllen-native Andy Lopez ran the 800-meter run in a time of 1:51.95 to finish 35^th out of 48 overall in the first round of the NCAA Championships West Preliminary Round on Thursday at Mike A. Myers Track Stadium on the campus of the University of Texas.
 
Running in the third heat, Lopez finished fifth out of eight runners, falling 1.29 seconds short of a top-three finish, which would have allowed him to automatically qualify for the quarterfinals. The top three advance from each heat plus the best remaining nine times. Lopez fell 0.67 seconds short of clinching the 27^th and final spot in the next round.
 
Lopez holds four of the top five times in program history in the 800-meter run. This season he ran the event in 1:50.06 at the 54^th Annual Mt. SAC Relays on April 20, 1:50.14 in the preliminaries of the Great West Conference Outdoor Championships on May 11, 1:50.68 at the Victor Lopez Classic on March 24 and 1:51.06 in the finals of the Great West Conference Outdoor Championships on May 12.
 
The University of Texas-Pan American Department of Intercollegiate Athletics competes at the NCAA Division I classification. UTPA, formerly known as Pan American College and Pan American University, is a part of the University of Texas System of Schools. The Broncs compete in 14 varsity sports; men's and women's basketball, golf, tennis, track and field, and cross country, along with women's volleyball and men's baseball. In 1963, then known as Pan American College, the Broncs men's basketball program won the NAIA National Championship with a 73-62 victory over Western Carolina. In 2008 UTPA joined the new all-sports division of the Great West Conference.