Friday, February 16
Fayetteville, AR
12:00 PM
University of Washington
vs
Arkansas Qualifier
DMR Dominance: Women + Men Run NCAA, U.S. Indoor Records
February 16, 2024 | Track & Field
Complete Arkansas Qualifier Results | Complete Terrier DMR Challenge Results
SEATTLE – The true battle today turned out to be which Husky DMR had the most jaw-dropping, record-setting run. At two different meets, the men in Arkansas and the women in Boston, Washington's distance medley relays each ran the fastest times in the NCAA this season, and in the women's case, the fastest in collegiate history, breaking a record UW itself established last year. The men merely had the fastest indoor DMR ever by four American men to establish a new American Indoor Record. It was another history-making day for the program and Coach Maurica and Andy Powell's student-athletes.
First in Fayetteville, the Husky men's quartet of in-state All-Americans ran a new American Indoor Record at the Randal Tyson Center. The mark, pending ratification, of 9:18.81 was a second faster than the previous best run by a U.S. National Team group back in 2015.
A few hours later, the women's DMR did everything they could to upstage their male counterparts, crushing their own NCAA Record at the Terrier DMR Challenge at Boston University. On the same track where the Huskies set the Collegiate Record a year ago, which still stood entering tonight, the women's quartet of Chloe Foerster, Anna Terrell, Marlena Preigh, and Carley Thomas knocked another three seconds off that record, going 10:43.39.
At the end of Friday, UW walked out of two different buildings with matching No. 1 times in the NCAA this season, a sparkling new NCAA Record for the women and an American Indoor record for the men.
Men's Record in Arkansas
Joe Waskom (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Daniel Gaik (Kent, Wash.), Nathan Green (originally a Boise, Idaho product, now calls Gig Harbor, Wash. home), and Luke Houser (Woodinville, Wash.) turned the All-State-of-Washington squad into the fastest foursome indoors in U.S. history.
The DMR is comprised of four different distances on each leg: 1200-meters/400-meters/800-meters/1600-meters.
Waskom, the 2022 NCAA 1500m Champion and 2023 USA 1500m runner-up, led off and split 2:51.34. Gaik took two laps around in 46.37 seconds. The Huskies did not have the lead until Green, the 2023 NCAA 1500m Champ, dropped the fastest 800-meters in the field in 1:46.57 and he passed off first to Houser, the 2023 NCAA Mile Champ.
Houser led a pack of five men on the longest leg of the race, and he never once relinquished the lead. He held off some late attacks from Virginia and Oklahoma State to get the victory, with his final 1600m split time sitting at 3:54.54.
While the time is the fastest indoors for four Americans, amazingly it's only the No. 2 time in UW history, and the No. 3 time in NCAA history. Last year, Washington ran slightly faster at this same meet (9:16.65), but its group that day included one Canadian, Kieran Lumb.
Following the DMR, Houser and Green both doubled back to get more work in in individual events. Green ran another 800-meters, the same distance he ran on the DMR, and he clocked a 1:47.68. Houser added another 3,000-meters to his daily workload, going 8:10.23 about three hours after the DMR race.
Ronan McMahon-Staggs also ran the 800-meters, placing 10th in 1:49.09, which puts him at No. 9 in school history. And Eric Gibson was 13th in the 800m in a time of 1:50.42, a personal-best.
Women's Record in Boston
Back at the BU Track & Tennis Center where they broke the distance medley relay record on Feb. 3 of 2023, the Huskies knew they might have to run another record and most importantly win to maintain their status at the top of the collegiate recordbooks.
Sophomore Chloe Foerster, coming off her School Record in the mile just a week ago, led off and she pulled away on the final lap of her leg to give the Huskies the lead with a 1,200m split of 3:15.29. Sophomore Anna Terrell then kept the Dawgs at the front with a 400-meter split of 54.74.
On the third leg, Marlena Preigh waited patiently as a few other teams pushed back up into the lead, but Preigh had more left in the tank and she rebuilt a lead over the final 200-meters to pass to Carley Thomas with a lead of approximately 20-meters. Preigh's split was 2:03.34.
Thomas, who was the 800m leg on last year's record-setting DMR, now had to go double that distance and anchor the final 1,600-meters. Just like Houser in the men's race, Thomas also had to run solo out front, giving a target to several of the best milers in the NCAA to work together and reel her back in. With two laps to go, Providence and BYU had battled back to get right behind Thomas, but again similarly to Houser, Thomas had another card left to play and accelerated going into the final lap, and she pushed the lead back again and held it to the finish line for the victory.
Thomas split a sizzling 4:30.02 for the final 1,600-meters, all on her own up front. Providence finished second in 10:44.07, and BYU was third in 10:44.67, both also under Washington's previous NCAA Record.
The Boston meet started with the women's mile, which featured Sophie O'Sullivan and India Weir. O'Sullivan lowered her season-best down to 4:33.30 while Weir ran 4:40.15.
SEATTLE – The true battle today turned out to be which Husky DMR had the most jaw-dropping, record-setting run. At two different meets, the men in Arkansas and the women in Boston, Washington's distance medley relays each ran the fastest times in the NCAA this season, and in the women's case, the fastest in collegiate history, breaking a record UW itself established last year. The men merely had the fastest indoor DMR ever by four American men to establish a new American Indoor Record. It was another history-making day for the program and Coach Maurica and Andy Powell's student-athletes.
First in Fayetteville, the Husky men's quartet of in-state All-Americans ran a new American Indoor Record at the Randal Tyson Center. The mark, pending ratification, of 9:18.81 was a second faster than the previous best run by a U.S. National Team group back in 2015.
A few hours later, the women's DMR did everything they could to upstage their male counterparts, crushing their own NCAA Record at the Terrier DMR Challenge at Boston University. On the same track where the Huskies set the Collegiate Record a year ago, which still stood entering tonight, the women's quartet of Chloe Foerster, Anna Terrell, Marlena Preigh, and Carley Thomas knocked another three seconds off that record, going 10:43.39.
At the end of Friday, UW walked out of two different buildings with matching No. 1 times in the NCAA this season, a sparkling new NCAA Record for the women and an American Indoor record for the men.
Luke Houser led the entire ?? leg and fought off the field for the ??
— Washington Track & Field and Cross Country (@UWTrack) February 16, 2024
Joe Waskom led off in 2:51.34 (1200m)
Daniel Gaik split 46.37 (400m)
Nathan Green put UW in the lead with a 1:46.57 (800m)
Houser closed in 3:54.54#GoHuskies // @NCAATrackField // ??? SEC Network+ pic.twitter.com/q9tlfK1BCZ
Men's Record in Arkansas
Joe Waskom (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Daniel Gaik (Kent, Wash.), Nathan Green (originally a Boise, Idaho product, now calls Gig Harbor, Wash. home), and Luke Houser (Woodinville, Wash.) turned the All-State-of-Washington squad into the fastest foursome indoors in U.S. history.
The DMR is comprised of four different distances on each leg: 1200-meters/400-meters/800-meters/1600-meters.
Waskom, the 2022 NCAA 1500m Champion and 2023 USA 1500m runner-up, led off and split 2:51.34. Gaik took two laps around in 46.37 seconds. The Huskies did not have the lead until Green, the 2023 NCAA 1500m Champ, dropped the fastest 800-meters in the field in 1:46.57 and he passed off first to Houser, the 2023 NCAA Mile Champ.
Houser led a pack of five men on the longest leg of the race, and he never once relinquished the lead. He held off some late attacks from Virginia and Oklahoma State to get the victory, with his final 1600m split time sitting at 3:54.54.
While the time is the fastest indoors for four Americans, amazingly it's only the No. 2 time in UW history, and the No. 3 time in NCAA history. Last year, Washington ran slightly faster at this same meet (9:16.65), but its group that day included one Canadian, Kieran Lumb.
Following the DMR, Houser and Green both doubled back to get more work in in individual events. Green ran another 800-meters, the same distance he ran on the DMR, and he clocked a 1:47.68. Houser added another 3,000-meters to his daily workload, going 8:10.23 about three hours after the DMR race.
Ronan McMahon-Staggs also ran the 800-meters, placing 10th in 1:49.09, which puts him at No. 9 in school history. And Eric Gibson was 13th in the 800m in a time of 1:50.42, a personal-best.
The Washington Women take down their own NCAA record in the DMR with a blazing 10:43.39??????@UWTrack | @NCAATrackField pic.twitter.com/3XeE1nu7qd
— FloTrack (@FloTrack) February 17, 2024
Women's Record in Boston
Back at the BU Track & Tennis Center where they broke the distance medley relay record on Feb. 3 of 2023, the Huskies knew they might have to run another record and most importantly win to maintain their status at the top of the collegiate recordbooks.
Sophomore Chloe Foerster, coming off her School Record in the mile just a week ago, led off and she pulled away on the final lap of her leg to give the Huskies the lead with a 1,200m split of 3:15.29. Sophomore Anna Terrell then kept the Dawgs at the front with a 400-meter split of 54.74.
On the third leg, Marlena Preigh waited patiently as a few other teams pushed back up into the lead, but Preigh had more left in the tank and she rebuilt a lead over the final 200-meters to pass to Carley Thomas with a lead of approximately 20-meters. Preigh's split was 2:03.34.
Thomas, who was the 800m leg on last year's record-setting DMR, now had to go double that distance and anchor the final 1,600-meters. Just like Houser in the men's race, Thomas also had to run solo out front, giving a target to several of the best milers in the NCAA to work together and reel her back in. With two laps to go, Providence and BYU had battled back to get right behind Thomas, but again similarly to Houser, Thomas had another card left to play and accelerated going into the final lap, and she pushed the lead back again and held it to the finish line for the victory.
Loving this new tradition ??
— Washington Track & Field and Cross Country (@UWTrack) February 17, 2024
Feb. 3, 2023 in Boston: ????:????.???? ?? ???????? ?????? ????????????
Feb. 16, 2024 in Boston: ????:????.???? ?? ???????? ?????? ????????????
The fast get faster ??#GoHuskies // #NCAATF pic.twitter.com/ODfeHHCTwb
Thomas split a sizzling 4:30.02 for the final 1,600-meters, all on her own up front. Providence finished second in 10:44.07, and BYU was third in 10:44.67, both also under Washington's previous NCAA Record.
The Boston meet started with the women's mile, which featured Sophie O'Sullivan and India Weir. O'Sullivan lowered her season-best down to 4:33.30 while Weir ran 4:40.15.
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