Oregon's indoor NCAA 800m champ Sabrina Southerland signs with Brooks Beasts...
Southerland competed for three years at Georgetown University, qualifying for the NCAA championships five times both indoors and outdoors, and gained two All-America honors in the distance medley relay, helping the Hoyas win the DMR crown in 2016, before graduating with a best of 2:03.10.
At Oregon under the tutelage of new Washington program director Maurica Powell, Southerland won the NCAA indoor title, running 2:01.55, and dropped all the way down to 2:00.72 this spring at the NCAA West Regionals.
She finished seventh in the NCAA outdoor 800 finals, running 2:06.99, and eighth at the USA championships in Des Moines.
“She’s run 52.1 in a 4 x 400 split, her one 1,500 [this year], she won in 4:16,” said Brooks Beasts coach Danny Mackey. “Her fifth year was awesome. She just improved so much from leaving Georgetown and I think that amount of improvement in that short of time with that much range tells me she has a really good upside.”
Southerland will stay in Eugene to complete her master’s degree at Oregon this fall before moving to Seattle.
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