AZUSA, Calif. – Sophomore Chloe Foerster and junior Nathan Green blazed to two of the fastest women’s and men’s 1,500-meters times in collegiate history and UW history tonight at the Bryan Clay Invitational hosted by Azusa Pacific. Both of the Husky All-Americans were just inched out for top collegiate honors in each race, but they will now stand at No. 2 in the NCAA this season, and Green’s run ranks him No. 4 in NCAA history.
Foerster and Green’s runs were the top marks for the Dawgs as the Bryan Clay Invite concluded, with all of UW’s entries coming in the 1,500-meters today.
Foerster, who broke the UW school record indoors in the mile, opened her outdoor season with a then-PR of 4:12.66, but she smashed that by nearly five more seconds today, running a phenomenal time of 4:07.96. She finished with the same time as Georgetown’s Melissa Riggins, but Riggins edged her by four-thousandths of a second. The two now rank 1st and 2nd in the NCAA this season and 12th and 13th in NCAA history.
Foerster is just the second Husky ever to break 4:10, which was done for the first time last year by teammate Sophie O’Sullivan. O’Sullivan set the school record at the World Championships last summer at 4:02.15, but Foerster’s time is the fastest ever run by a Husky during the NCAA season. O’Sullivan’s best in-season last year was 4:08.06.
Green, the 2023 NCAA Champion at 1,500-meters, ran a career-best time of 3:34.79, which was second by a stride to Northern Arizona’s Colin Sahlman, as the two battled each other over the final 200-meters. Salman’s time of 3:33.96 is fastest in the NCAA this year and second-fastest in NCAA history, while Green now slides in at No. 4 in collegiate history.
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— Washington Track & Field and Cross Country (@UWTrack) April 14, 2024
Similar to Foerster’s mark, Green’s time was just shy of Joe Waskom’s school record of 3:34.64, which he ran in Europe last summer, but Green’s time is the fastest ever run by a Dawg within the outdoor collegiate campaign. The only other Husky to go sub-3:35 was Sam Tanner, who went 3:34.72 in 2021 in a rarely contested indoor 1,500-meters.
The times were all the more impressive because for the second straight meet, the…
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