BOSTON – Justin Liechty set a school record in the 400m dash and was a part of another record to headline the Vermont Catamounts on Day 1 of the ECAC/IC4A Championships at Boston University Track & Tennis Center.
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COACH'S QUOTE
"Justin certainly stood out today with his 400m school record and leading off the 4x400 that got the record too," said head coach
Matt Belfield. "Those guys ran really tough. We had many more personal-bests too, especially
Samantha Sayer's first sub-17 5K and
Seth Beard's first sub-22 200m as highlights.
Caroline O'Shea making the final of the 1K gives us another event to look forward to tomorrow. Should be a good day with the men's 4x400 in the hunt for another school record and some hard fought points."
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Liechty broke the school record that he set last week at the America East Championships with a time of 48.28 seconds to advance through the 400m preliminaries.
- The senior captain was also a part of the 4x400m relay team with Dan DeBlieck, Taylor Kracher, and Alex Parasky that advanced through the preliminaries after running a school record pace of 3:15.23.
- Caroline O'Shea advanced through the 1000m preliminaries with a time of 2:52.62.
- Samantha Sayer's personal record in the 5000m run came when she finished the race in 16:58.51
- Luke Petela and Chris Gish set personal records in the mile with times of 4:13.38 and 4:13.66, respectively.
- Anya Gorodentsev registered her personal-best long jump when she flew a distance of 5.48m for Vermont's top mark of the season.
- Seth Beard had a personal-best time of 21.93 seconds in the 200m dash preliminaries.
WHAT'S NEXT
The Catamounts return for Day 2 of the ECAC/IC4A Championships Sunday (Mar. 3) at BU Track & Tennis Center.
