Teams: Men's Track & Field: Schedule & Results

DMR BREAKS SCHOOL RECORD BY FOUR SECONDS AT IC4A CHAMPIONSHIPS

COLLEGE MEN'S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
IC4A Championships
Saturday, March 8, 2008
At Boston, MA

Meet Results

BOSTON -- Tufts University's distance medley relay ran a school-record time of 10:00.05 at the 2008 IC4A Championships hosted by Boston University on Saturday. The new school standard surpassed the 32 year-old previous mark of 10:04.2 in the Tufts annals.

The 2008 record-setting group was senior quad-captain Dave Sorensen (Dover, MA), sophomore Andrew Longley (Short Hills, NJ), sophomore Billy Hale (Menlo Park, CA) and sophomore Jesse Faller (Burlington, MA). The finished eighth out of 28 teams in the preliminaries of the event at IC4A's, tops among Division III schools. They qualified for the final on Sunday, but did not compete due to an NCAA rule that does not allow competition on the Sunday prior to the NCAA Championships.

The converted time of 10:03.05 due to the banked BU track was 12th in Division III nationally this season. The top 10 qualified for the NCAA meet, which is this Friday and Saturday in Ohio (March 14-15). Sorensen will be in Ohio for the mile run.

With a long tradition of track at Tufts, a broken record is always a memorable occasion. The 1976 distance medley relay that held the record for so many years was Kutteruf, Stadeck, Baldwin, Caseley.

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