WASHINGTON – After two weeks of competition in the new year, the Eagles have earned a total of 16 places on Top-10 performance lists and recorded 21 new personal bests and plan to continue to push limits when they participate in the Patriot Games hosted by George Mason on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 27-28.
 
MEET INFORMATION

• Location: Fairfax, Va.
• Facility: The George Mason Field House

NOTES

• The Patriot Games in Fairfax will begin for the Eagles on Friday night at 6 p.m. with the women's 5000m run, followed by the men's 5000m run. The rest of the Games will take place on Saturday, starting at 11 a.m.
• The 2023 indoor competition is in full swing for the Eagles as they enter their fourth event of the season. The squad is looking to alter the record books once again after seven new times were added to the AU's list of top-10 performers at the Brant Tolsma Invite in Lynchburg, Va. (Jan. 21).
• Friday night at in Lynchburg saw the first win of the event for the Eagles when senior Row Sullivan crossed the line first in the men's 5000m run in 14:47.21. They were followed up by Michael Dua in second place at 15:02.31.
• Junior June Mwaniki, who finished fifth overall in the 3000m run, was the first Eagle of the weekend to earn a spot on the top-10 indoor record books with her performance. Mwaniki's 10:12.07 finish places her at number 10 in the records. Brooke Evans earned a PR in the event, crossing the finish in 10:59.93.
• In the women's 5000m run, it was senior Rachael Potter who earned a second-place finish and a spot in the top-10 record books. Her finish in 18:21.65 slotted her into the number 10 spot on the list.
• Both competitors in the women's mile run, Callia Cordasco and Rowe Crawford, earned personal bests with their time, finishing 19th and 23rd overall.
• Nathan Reeves finished fourth in the men's mile run, earning not just a personal best, but listing himself as seventh on the top-10 performance list. This is the second week in a row that one of Reeves' performances have added him to the AU record books.
• Two more runners earned PRs in the men's one mile, Alex Murphy and Cooper Michaud who finished 15th and 24th respectively, each bested their own previous times.
• Jessica Bakas and Kirah Tianga, who competed in the women's 400m dash, finished 33rd and 34th, both earning personal bests with their performances of 1:04.35 and 1:05.15.
• The men's 800m run saw more action for the day. Kaden Kluth crossed the line first in the event; his time of 1:51.45 positioning him second on the top-10 performers list. Ethan Puc, who came in fifth at 1:53.92 put himself at 10th on the top-10 list. Kluth and Puc alongside Carver Morgan, also hit personal best times in the event.
• The men's 400m relay team that consisted of Kluth, Tucker Zullo, Puc, and Morgan crossed the line third in the event, simultaneously placing themselves in third place on the school's top-10 performances list.
• In the last event of the day, the women's 4x400m relay team of Bakas, Cordasco, Lucia Ianello, and Tianga finished 16th in the event while earning the 10th place spot on American's indoor top-10 performances list for the event.

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