Woodbury graduater Brady Shute smashed Cornell’s 1,000-meter run record Saturday in the qualifying rounds at the Ivy League Championshps.
Shute ran 2:23.51 in the 2nd of three semifinal races at Harvard’s Gordon Indoor Track in Cambridge, Mass. He broke the school record of 2:23.66 set by Nick Wade at the 2011 Nittany Lion Challenge in State College, Pa.
That’s the fastest time by a South Jerey alum in 15 years, since Rob Novak – a graduate of Westampton Tech who competed for Bordentown – ran 2:22.53 at the Armory on Feb. 22, 2009. That’s the South Jersey alumni record.
Shute had a previous PR over 1,000 meters of 2:25.44 from the 2022 Ivy League Championships at the Armory in New York. Cornell’s fastest previous South Jersey runner in the 1,000 was Mainland Regional’s Jimmy Wyner, who ran 2:24.58 at the Armory in 2006.
Shute had the 2nd-fastest time among the eight qualifiers – nine will go to the final as the result of a Dartmouth protest – and he was an auto qualifier by virtue of a top-2 finish in one of the three semis.
He ran his 200s in 27.31, 28.99, 29.64, 29.06 and 28.52 for a final 400 of 57.58. Shute’s pace at 2:23.51 for 1,000 meters is 1:54.81 for 800 meters.
The final is scheduled for 2:05 p.m. on Sunday.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 