Rowan sophomore Nick Neville keeps closing in on the 36-year-old Rowan University indoor 800 record!
Neville, a South Brunswick graduate, ran another indoor PR, this time clocking 1:53.60 at the Fastrack National Invite at the Ocean Breeze facility this weekend on Staten Island.
Neville’s previous PR was 1:53.92 the previous weekend at a meet at Ithaca College in upstate New York.
His time is No. 4 in NCAA Division 1, according to the Direct Athletics database.
Neville placed second in his section to Columbia’s Jackson Storey. He was sixth overall against a field of Division 1 and post-collegiate runners.
With his 1:53.60, Neville ran within about half a second of his outdoor PR of 1:53.02, which he turned in last spring at the Hopkins Invitational in Baltimore.
He’s now only 3-100ths of a second off Rowan’s indoor school record of 1:53.57, set back in 1981 for Glassboro State by Tavo Rivera, who won the 1977 Meet of Champions at 880 yards for Pemberton.
Neville placed fourth in the 2015 Meet of Champions with a 1:54.21 for South Brunswick.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 