WASHINGTON – The American University indoor track season is in full swing this weekend with the Penn State Nittany Lion Challenge on Saturday (Jan. 17). This is an opener for most of the team with six more weeks before the Patriot League Championships.
The meet will start at 10 a.m., with the first Eagles racing in the mile at noon.
MEET INFORMATION
The team returns almost all of their scoring athletes from last year's record-breaking track campaign. Opening her junior season this weekend is
Lorelei Bangit, who broke her own program records more than a dozen times last year, and took home the indoor and outdoor 400 meter silver medals as well as bronze in the outdoor 4x100 relay.
Tamara Dorval enters her sophomore season coming off program records and scoring finishes in the indoor 60 meters, outdoor 100 meters, and outdoor 4x100. Patriot League indoor and outdoor 800 meter champion
Carver Morgan and 1500 meter champion
Kaden Kluth, who both opened up their indoor seasons at Boston University in December with top-10 times in the 3k, are back in action this weekend as well.
The distance squad is coming off a historic cross country season, with the men's team taking third at the Patriot League Cross Country Championships, their highest conference finish since 2013. Kluth led the team with a fifth-place finish, the program's highest individual finish since 2012, and freshman
Shealyn Brochu nabbed a 14th-place finish to earn the AU women's first All-PL finish since 2021 and PL Rookie of the Meet honors.
On the distance side, five of the team's eight freshmen competed in the postseason, with four toeing the line at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional. On the sprints side, five freshmen are ready to begin their collegiate careers on Saturday.
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