Distance night at Penn

Strong night for the Marist men and women. Highlights:

-- Freshman Addie DiFrancesco broke Liza Grudzinski's SR in the event with a strong 36:12.42 clocking, 15th overall, easily an ECAC qualifying mark (standard is 37:40.00). Tremendous effort. Even splits! First 5km: 18:06; second 5km: 18:06. This was Addie's first ever 10km. She's obviously pretty good at it. This was awesome.
-- Sophomore Brittany Burns broke her own SR in the steeple and PRed by nearly half a minute with a 10:59.44. This is just 5 or so seconds off ECAC standard (standard is 10:55.04) and about 12 seconds off NCAA Regionals. Great stuff.
-- Sophomore Nick Webster improved his steeple PR to 9:18.26, about a 5-second improvement on last year. This was Webs' first steeple of the spring, an excellent debut. He's about 4 seconds off IC standard in the event (standard is 9:15.00). We'll give it a go at MAACs.
-- Freshman Will Griffin broke 15:00 for the first time in the 5km, 14:53.09. Very strong effort and an improvement of nearly 1 minute from his disastrous first 5km a few weeks ago at Princeton. Will hung tough with the fast pace and closed strongly. He's the third young Red Fox to break 15:00 this year (Keegan indoors, Webs last week), and now joins a growing list of active team members in the sub-15:00 club.

I have splits for all races, and will get them up here when I can (might not be till early next week, after the Yale meet on Sunday).

We have a men's 4x400 at Penn later this afternoon (Friday) and a women's 4x800 at Penn on Saturday. Then Yale Sunday, MAACs next Saturday/Sunday.

Busy times for the Running Red Foxes ...