Paul VI graduate Aliya Garozzo, a senior at Penn, ran a blazing 52.47 anchor on the Quakers’ 1,600-meter relay team that shattered the Ivy League record Saturday.
Penn ran 3:29.86 at the Tiger Paw Invitational at Clemson. The Quakers won their section and finished 3rd overall behind powerhouse programs Georgia [3:29.28] and Texas A&M [3:29.58], who ran in the final section.
Christiana Nwachuku, Jocelyn Niemiec and Isabella Whittaker ran the first three legs for Penn, whose time is No. 9 in NCAA Division 1 this year
The previous Penn school record was 3:32.44 with the same lineup two weeks ago at the Terrier Classic at Boston University.
The previous Ivy League record? No idea. Penn’s web site said this was an Ivy record but the genius that wrote the story didn’t bother saying what the previous record was. You had one job.
[edit: OK, I found an Ivy League record book and it shows the previous indoor 4×4 record as 3:34.17 by Harvard last year. Doesn’t say where they did it but on TFRRS it looks like it was at last year’s Tiger Paw Invite at Clemson. Penn also apparently broke the overall Ivy League record of 3:29.98 that Harvard ran in 2016. Of course the Ivy League record book doesn’t say where they did that either, but it was at NCAA Division 1 Eastern Prelims in Jacksonville, which was 3:29.98. A common theme with track and field is that people involved in it don’t believe details are important.]
Ivy League track record book but they only show outdoor marks, and the outdoor 4-by-4 record was 3:29.98 by Harvard in 2016, but of course they don’t say where they did that. I just looked it up on TFRRS and it was at the Division 1 East Regional in Jacksonville. Still no clue what the previous indoor Ivy record was. Common theme with track and field is that many people involved in it don’t care about details. I’ll try to find the previous Ivy indoor record tonight].
Anyway, Garozzo was the Ivy League 500-meter champ last winter at 1:14.81 and has since run 1:12.22, No. 4 in school history. She ran 59.96 in the intermediates last spring, No. 5 in school history. She’s also No. 5 in the 60-meter hurdles [8.49].
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 