Huskies Post Six More Wins To Close UW Invite

SEATTLE – Three wins in the field and three on the track highlighted another breakneck day in the Dempsey, as the Husky track and field squad continues its early season assault on the recordbooks. Among the winners at the UW Invitational, Cole Lindhorst broke the Meet Record in the 800-meters, and Justin O’Toole lowered the Dempsey and School Records at 600-meters. And for those keeping track, the Huskies saw their 10th and 11th different runners break the four-minute mile barrier today.
 
Big wins from field event veterans included Jami Schlueter’s two-day PR performance in the heptathlon, where he scored 5,780 points to move into the top-five in the NCAA. Prestin Artis also climbed into NCAA qualifying position with a long jump season-best of 25-4 3/4, and Kaia Tupu-South grabbed the women’s shot put victory with a best of 54-10.
 
Distance Events
 
While the men’s milers continue to wow with their parade of sub-four times, the women’s mile may have stolen the show today. Only two Husky women had ever gone sub-4:30 coming into today, current junior and Husky record-holder Chloe Foerster (4:28.14) and Katie Flood back in 2012 (4:28.48). Today, two Huskies went sub-4:30 in the same race.
 
Foerster repeated the feat in her first race since early December, going 4:28.90, and finishing right behind teammate Amina Maatoug, as the Duke transfer made a huge statement with a PR of 4:28.39. Foerster and Maatoug now rank 1-2 in Husky history and they will both sit in the top-10 in the NCAA when the dust settles on this weekend.
 
Maatoug completed an impressive two-day double as she ran the 3k on Friday in 9:00.44. Foerster would go for an incredible one-day double of her own, as she came back a couple hours after the mile to run the 800-meters in an indoor PR of 2:03.32.
 
The women’s mile also saw excellent runs from Mia Cochran who had a second-straight 4:33 time, going 4:33.77 today, and Claire Yerby, who was just a fraction of a second off her PR in 4:36.34. Julia David-Smith took more than three seconds off her PR, going 4:36.66, Maggie Liebich had a big season-best 4:37.96, and Josephine Welin had a major PR of the day, cutting…