Green Opens Track Season With 3k Record

Saturday, December 7

Boston, MA

8:00 AM

University of Washington

Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener

December 07, 2024 | Track & Field

By: UW Athletic Communications

BOSTON – Senior All-American Nathan Green put his name atop another Husky record list today in the first meet of the 2024-25 indoor track season. At the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener in Boston, Green broke the School Record at 3,000-meters, clocking a time of 7:40.09. All told the Dawgs had five new top-10 marks from a group of ten runners.

It's now the fourth different distance where Green owns the top time in school history. He also has the UW record at 800-meters (1:46.23), 1,000-meters (2:18.56), and 1,500-meters (3:32.20 set in a fifth-place Olympic Trials finish this past summer).

Green was fifth in the top heat of the men's 3k today as the top four men all broke the former NCAA record.

In the women's 3,000-meters, Amina Maatoug continues to trend up after a strong NCAA XC run, as she came through in 9:00.65, which puts her immediately up to No. 4 in UW history. Also in the 3k fields, Chloe Foerster ran 9:15.90, Claire Yerby had a five-second PR of 9:18.06, and new transfer Maggie Liebich had a 10-second PR in her UW debut in 9:26.75.

A couple Husky debuts in the 1,000-meters resulted in a couple top-10 times. Kyle Reinheimer, a a transfer from North Carolina, ran 2:21.30 to take second in the 1k, and right next to him was Justin O'Toole, a transfer from Columbia, in a time of 2:21.44. Those times put them fourth and fifth in school history.

Freshman Martin Barco made his collegiate debut with an indoor mile PR as he ran 4:05.46. Senior transfer Rhys Hammond started his season off with a PR in the 3,000-meters, as he broke 8-minutes for the first time in 7:57.99.

The last Husky on the track today was Julia David-Smith, and she posted one final top-10 mark in the 5,000-meters. David-Smith ran 15:55.05, her fastest career 5k indoors or out, to go to No. 8 in school history indoors.

Next week another group of Dawgs will get an early season competition at the Spokane Invitational at The Podium, on Saturday, Dec. 14.