Seven Huskies In Motion At World University Games

2025 FISU World University Games

Rhine-Ruhr, Germany | Lohrheidestadion

July 21-27

Schedule and Results

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Husky observe followers by no means have to attend lengthy through the summer time months for the following large competitors, as a number of of UW’s standouts have stored coaching and testing themselves greater than  a month after NCAA Outdoors wrapped up the official season. This week brings in regards to the FISU World University Games, within the Rhine-Ruhr space of Germany, the place seven present or former Husky ladies’s distance runners are representing their international locations.
 
Mia Cochran (USA), Julia David-Smith (France), Chloe Foerster (USA), Maggie Liebich (USA), Saskia Lloyd (Australia), Amina Maatoug (Netherlands), and Sophie O’Sullivan (Ireland) are all available for the worldwide competitors, held each different 12 months for college athletes.
 
Chloe Foerster opened up within the 800-meters on Tuesday, taking second in her first spherical warmth in a time of two:02.84 to simply transfer on to Wednesday’s semifinals.
 
Sophie O’Sullivan will run the 1,500-meters for Ireland, her first competitors since successful the NCAA Outdoor title in her ultimate race as a Dawg on June 14. The ladies’s 1,500m first spherical comes on Friday.
 
Maatoug and Liebich may even be within the 1,500m discipline for the Netherlands and the U.S., respectively, after each ran large PRs in Italy earlier this month. Maatoug went 4:05 and Liebich ran a 4:08.
 
Cochran and David-Smith will each be racing the 5,000-meters, which comes on Saturday. David-Smith simply raced a 5k in Norway final weekend, taking fourth total on the European U23 Championships.
 
Lloyd raced the ten,000-meters on the primary day of competitors on Monday, inserting twenty first total in 35:06.30.