Birmingham, AL -- LIU Brooklyn men's track & field standout Brendon Rodney concluded his 2015-16 indoor season in impressive fashion on Saturday evening. Rodney finished in fourth place in the 200-meter dash at NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, and becomes the first athlete in school history to earn First Team All-America accolades during an indoor season.

Running in the second heat of the final round, Rodney began in lane three and quickly made up the stagger on TCU's Sam Watts, who was running in lane four. The Brampton, Ontario native closed in a time of 20.77, three hundredths of a second behind third-place finisher Kenzo Cotton, who ran in the first heat.

Tennessee's Christian Coleman won the national title in the event with a time of 20.55, while LSU's Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake finished second at 20.63. Both Coleman and Mitchell-Blake ran in Rodney's heat.

Rodney, who ran the fastest time of the collegiate season in the 200-meter dash with a new school and Northeast Conference record of 20.46, becomes the third student-athlete in the modern era to pick up First Team All-America honors. Richard James (400m, 2003) and Bryan Steele (400m hurdles, 2006) both accomplished the feat during the outdoor season.