Mia Cochran becomes fourth Husky to break 4:30 in the mile at Battle for Boston...
BOSTON--Washington's Mia Cochran (#8179/Paul Merca photo) became the fourth runner in school history to break 4:30 in the mile Sunday night at the Saucony Battle for Boston meet at the Boston University Track and Tennis Center, in what essentially was the final day for American pros to improve upon their qualifying marks for next weekend's USATF indoor championships in Staten Island, New York, and for collegians to move up the descending order lists for the NCAA championships before the conference championship meets.
Competing in the top section of the women's mile, Cochran was the top collegiate runner in the field, finishing fourth in a personal best 4:29.10. as Rachel McArthur of Asics won in 4:27.56.
UW teammate Julia David-Smith was tenth in 4:35.82, just off of her personal best of 4:34.95 set at the Mile City meet.
Cochran joins Chloe Foerster, Amina Maatoug, and Katie Flood as the only four Huskies to break 4:30 in the mile. Foerster's school record of 4:25.79 was set at the Mile City meet on January 31st.
In other highlights:
--John Rivera of the Seattle based Brooks Beasts won the top section of the men's 800, running 1:46.10 to turn back Washington alum Justin O'Toole, who ran 1:46.27.
Rivera, who represented Puerto Rico at last year's world indoors in China, and O'Toole, who ran for Canada at the world championships in Tokyo in September, were shooting for the 1:45.90 standard for this year's world indoor championships in Poland.
--Washington alum Sam Ellis came close to setting a personal best in the mile with his fourth place finish in the top section. Ellis ran 3:53.57, while fellow Husky alum Aidan Ryan was fifth in 3:53.62. Waleed Suliman of the Brooks Beasts was sixth in 3:54.58.
UW alum Joe Waskom won the second section of the men's mile in 3:55.18.
--Washington State's Evans Kurui was second in the men's 5000, running 13:27.21, while Zenah Cheptoo was seventh in the women's 3000, clocking 8:57.75. With both expected to run in next weekend's Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championship meet in the altitude of Reno, this was perhaps their best chance to move up the descending order list for the NCAA championships.
Both Kurui and Cheptoo have run faster this season.
--In the men's 3000, Yakima native Jonas Price of the University of Portland finished fifth in 7:47.00, but didn't improve over his personal best of 7:45.65 set last week at the Husky Classic.
--Teagan Schein-Becker of the Brooks Beasts was seventh in the women's 800m in 2:02.61.
UW ALUM JAMI SCHLUETER SETS NIGERIAN NATIONAL HEPTATHLON RECORD...
At the USATF Indoor Combined Events Championships held at Fall Creek Pavilion in Indianapolis, Washington alum Jami Schlueter, who until November 15th, had represented Great Britain in international competition, set a new Nigerian national record in the heptathlon.
Schlueter actually broke his own record of 5789 points, which he set two weeks ago at College Station, Texas at the Charlie Thomas Invitational, hosted by Texas A&M.
He scored 5871 points in placing fifth overall, as Cal alum Hakim McMorris won the competition with a seven-event total of 6255 points.
Schlueter ran 6.98 in the 60, long jumped a personal best 24-3 (7.39m), threw 47-3 (14.40m) in the shot put, and high jumped 6-3.25 (1.91m) on Saturday.
Sunday's marks for him included a 60 hurdles personal best of 7.97, a clearance of 14-11 (4.55m) in the pole vault, and a time of 2:43.59 in the 1000.
NOTE: The Saucony Battle for Boston and USA Track & Field contributed to this report.
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