Eight Huskies Hit NCAA Marks At UW Invite
Two-day meet churns out four facility records and 104 NCAA qualifying marks.

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Video of Women's DMR Courtesy of Runnerspace

SEATTLE - Washington's women's distance runners continued to excel and freshman Jeremy Taiwo set a new school record in the heptathlon as the two-day UW Invitational came to an end today at the Dempsey Indoor facility. Husky track and field athletes combined to hit eight NCAA qualifying marks today, and picked up ten total for the weekend.

Five members of UW's NCAA Champion women's cross country team chalked up NCAA provisional qualifying marks this afternoon in the mile and the 3,000-meters. Junior Katie Follett took second in the mile in a time of 4:41.73, less than 24 hours after she anchored UW's NCAA-leading distance medley relay. Close behind Follett were junior Kailey Campbell, also a DMR runner yesterday, in 4:45.29, and redshirt freshman Mel Lawrence, who ran 4:46.07 to go under the provisional qualifying mark in her first collegiate track outing.

In the 3,000-meters, Colorado's Jenny Barringer stole the show, winning in a Dempsey Indoor record and world-leading time of 8:53.88. Barringer was a U.S. Olympian in the steeplechase in Beijing. The entire field was packed with talent, and produced Barringer's record time, two more NCAA automatic marks, and fourteen more provisional times, including... Read More