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Portland Track Fest Features More Husky Records, PRs
Story Links PORTLAND, Ore. – UW Track fans suffering from a post-NCAAs hangover didn’t have to wait long, as the Portland Track Festival provided many more season’s-bests as well as another glimpse into the future. The meet was held Saturday and Sunday at Lewis & Clark College, with Huskies past, […]
PORTLAND, Ore. – UW Track fans suffering from a post-NCAAs hangover didn’t have to wait long, as the Portland Track Festival provided many more season’s-bests as well as another glimpse into the future. The meet was held Saturday and Sunday at Lewis & Clark College, with Huskies past, present, and future all impressing.
Several NCAA qualifiers who just missed out on reaching the finals headed to Portland to keep their seasons going. One of those Huskies, Kyle Reinheimer, was third overall on Sunday and lowered his 800-meters school record to 1:45.73. Graduated senior Justin O’Toole showed he’s getting back into his top form by running a PR of 1:46.29.
In the top section of the women’s 5,000-meters, incoming transfer Chloe Thomas clocked a time of 15:18.49 which would be well under the current UW school record. Thomas is joining the Dawgs from Uconn next season. The men’s 5k saw senior Acer Iverson drop a fast season’s-best 13:25.68.
But one of the big stories from the meet was the 11th- and 12th-place finishers in the fast 1,500-meter section. That’s where UW incoming freshmen Owen Powell and Josiah Tostenson finished, running the No. 2 and No. 3 high school 1,500-meter times in U.S. history. Powell ran 3:36.49 and Tostenson went 3:36.85. If run next season, those would be the third and fourth fastest times in UW history only behind multiple NCAA Champions Nathan Green and Joe Waskom.
Former Huskies Sam Ellis and Kieran Lumb also ran in the top heat, Ellis going 3:35.40 and Lumb running 3:36.37. In an earlier section, senior Rhys Hammond, still competing in his UW kit, took third in a big PR of 3:36.86 to go to No. 3 in school history. Seniors Ronan McMahon-Staggs and Leo Daschbach ran 3:40.61 (McMahon-Staggs) and 3:41.19 (Daschbach, a PR).
Freshman Nathan Neil, who has redshirted the season, ran a 3:41.32 and sophomore Will Schneider went 3:51.28.
In the women’s 1,500-meters, graduated senior Claire Yerby had a massive breakthrough, taking second in her section in 4:07.78, a five-second personal-best. Sam Tran also clocked a 4:26.84.
Josephine Welin raced herself to a 5,000-meters PR of 16:35.61. For the men, freshman Parker Mong ran the 5k, finishing in 14:40.56.
On Saturday, in the steeplechase, former Husky Aaron Ahl ran 8:31.98, and another alum, Julius Diehr, ran 8:40.37. Current sophomore Cruize Corvin broke nine minutes for the first time, going 8:55.20.