Bruins wrap up regular indoor track season at Concordia
The Bruin distance track team concluded their regular season indoor track schedule at Friday's Concordia Invite and came away with several season bests and a Top Five All-Time mark.
SEWARD, Neb. -- The Bruin distance track team concluded their regular season indoor track schedule at Friday's Concordia Invite and came away with several season bests and a Top Five All-Time mark.
The Bruin women kicked off events with the mile run, where Olivia Russo ran to a season-best 5:59.50 and a fifteenth-place finish. For the men, Collin Kotz and Griffin Kipchumba were 9th and 11th, running 4:45.79 and 4:50.68, respectively.
The best event of the night came in the 3,000-meter run. Bruin women finished seventh, eighth, and tenth, with Olivia Russo establishing her second season-best of the evening with a 12:24.74 clocking. Alicia Rivera Camargo was next for the Bruins with a time of 12:37.62, while close behind was Ashley Guatemala, who recorded a lifetime best of 12:41.52.
In the men's race, Collin Kotz recorded the fifth fastest time in Bruin history, running 9:20.62, good for ninth place. Griffin Kipchumba placed 16th in 9:50.33.
The Bruins conclude the indoor track season with next Sunday's NSAA Championships on the South Dakota State University campus in Brookings, S.D.