SEATTLE – Washington Track & Field’s quartet of in-state All-Americans ran a new American Indoor Record in the distance medley relay today at the Randal Tyson Center in Fayetteville, Ark. The mark, pending ratification, of 9:18.81 was a second faster than the previous best run by a U.S. National Team group back in 2015.
A few hours later, the women’s DMR did everything they could to upstage their male counterparts, crushing their own NCAA Record at the Terrier DMR Challenge at Boston University. On the same track where the Huskies set the Collegiate Record a year ago, which still stood entering tonight, the women’s quartet of Chloe Foerster, Anna Terrell, Marlena Preigh, and Carley Thomas knocked another three seconds off that record, going 10:43.39.
At the end of Friday, UW walked out of two different buildings with matching No. 1 times in the NCAA this season, a sparkling new NCAA Record for the women and an American Indoor record for the men.
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Joe Waskom led off in 2:51.34 (1200m)
Daniel Gaik split 46.37 (400m)
Nathan Green put UW in the lead with a 1:46.57 (800m)
Houser closed in 3:54.54#GoHuskies // @NCAATrackField // ??? SEC Network+ pic.twitter.com/q9tlfK1BCZ— Washington Track & Field and Cross Country (@UWTrack) February 16, 2024
Men’s Record in Arkansas
Joe Waskom (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Daniel Gaik (Kent, Wash.), Nathan Green (originally a Boise, Idaho product, now calls Gig Harbor, Wash. home), and Luke Houser (Woodinville, Wash.) turned the All-State-of-Washington squad into the fastest foursome indoors in U.S. history.
The DMR is comprised of four different distances on each leg: 1200-meters/400-meters/800-meters/1600-meters.
Waskom, the 2022 NCAA 1500m Champion and 2023 USA 1500m runner-up, led off and split 2:51.34. Gaik took two laps around in 46.37 seconds. The Huskies did not have the lead until Green, the 2023 NCAA 1500m Champ, dropped the fastest 800-meters in the field in 1:46.57 and he passed off first to Houser, the 2023 NCAA Mile Champ.
Houser led a pack of five men on the longest leg of the race, and he never once relinquished the lead. He held off some late attacks from Virginia and Oklahoma State to get the victory, with his final 1600m split time sitting at 3:54.54.
While the time is the fastest indoors for four Americans, amazingly it’s only the No. 2 time in UW history, and the No. 3 time in NCAA history. Last year, Washington…
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