Indoor Observe Posts A number of Occasion Wins at Patriot Games

FAIRFAX, Va. – The American University monitor workforce ran dominantly on the George Mason Patriot Games (Jan. 30-31), successful six occasions on the flat monitor. The workforce ran a complete of 5 top-10 occasions of their second full-team meet of the indoor season.

• On Friday night, freshman Emma Colavito began the meet with a debut within the 5k, working a seventh AU all-time efficiency of 17:43.46.
• Sophomores Jaden Frederick and Daniel Messer each ran PRs within the 5k. Frederick ran a 13-second indoor PR of 14:55.51, and Messer ran a 31-second PR of 14:57.80.
• Freshman Lilia Jones positioned second total within the 60 meters, enhancing her second all-time mark to 7.72 seconds.
• Senior Carver Morgan received the mile in a PR of 4:06.33, enhancing his fourth all-time mark.
• Freshman Shealyn Brochu received the ladies’s 800 in a decisive race, working 2:14.54, good for fourth AU all-time. Sophomore Barak Goldstein received the boys’s 800 in 1:55.16.
• Senior Ciera Thacker and freshman Maren Holecek have been a 1-2 punch within the 200 meters, working 25.93 seconds and 26.13 seconds, respectively.
• Both distance medley relay quads received their respective races. The ladies’s time of 12:15.47 was a seventh all-time efficiency for AU.
• In the ladies’s 3k, junior Estella Miller and senior Annie Ripol led the Eagles, working private bests of 10:32.33 and 10:37.01, respectively.
• Sophomore Noah Smith positioned second within the males’s 3k in 8:39.57, and senior Jack Chandler ran a 10-second private greatest iof 9:03.30.

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Coaches’ Corner

“I was very pleased with how the team performed this weekend,” stated head coach Sean Graham. “George Mason is a challenging place to run fast, and we had numerous athletes set PRs and season bests. More importantly than that, we had a lot of event wins, heat wins, and championship-style racing moves — all done after a very challenging week for the team battling snow, ice, bitter cold. 

“We’re digging out now, getting again on our monitor this week and again to work earlier than we hit two nice alternatives two weeks from now.”

“”We use this meet as an opportunity to develop our skill sets mid season and set ourselves up for weeks of great racing in late February,” stated affiliate head coach Zach Prescott. “The team did just that, and I was particularly impressed with our event winners throughout the day. I feel confident that our ability to compete well on a flat track at this point in the season will pay huge dividends later in the season and into indoor.”

Next Up

The Eagles will break up in a few weeks, with some competing on the Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invitational and a few competing on the Liberty Darius Dixon Invitational (Feb. 13-14).

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AU RESULTS

* Top-10 Mark
*** New Program Record