Corbett Breaks School Record at Valentine Invite
BOSTON, Mass. -- Nyika Corbett '10 continued her strong start at Swarthmore, this time breaking the indoor mile record as the Swarthmore indoor track and field team competed at the annual Valentine Invite at Boston University Friday and Saturday.
Corbett narrowly missed setting the mile record at the Jack Pyrah Invitational on December 1, running a 5:17.16. On Saturday, the freshman dropped more than a full second off that time, completing the race in 5:16.02 to best the previous record set by Sarah Hobbs '05 at the 2005 Valentine Invite (5:16.65).
Sophomore Cait Mullarkey continued her strong indoor season, posting a personal-best time of 2:19.14 at 800 meters.
The men ran on Friday --senior Vernon Chaplin was the seventh Division III runner to finish the 3,000 meter race was 69th overall out of 165 runners from Division I, II and III with a time of 8:45.53 (just missed a personal-best). Teammate Ross Weller ran 96th with a sparkling time of 8:53.51(just off his personal best set two weeks ago) while freshman Jonnie Tompkins ran 133rd in a personal-best time of 9:07.21.
Senior Matt Schiller also competed this weekend, running a 51.66(a season-best on the indoor surface) in the 400 meters to finish 90th out of 161 competitors.
The Garnet head to Haverford College on Friday, February 16 at 5:00 p.m. to compete in the annual Haverford Keogh Invite.