Junior David Kenny from St. Augustine turned in the fastest indoor 800 by an Ursinus runner in eight years Saturday with his 3rd-place finish in the AARTFC Championships.
Kenny ran 1:55.49 at the Glisano Training Center in Nazareth, Pa., breaking his previous indoor PR of .
His time is fastest by an Ursinus runner in eight years, since Andrew Mackin set the school record of 1:54.05 on his home track in Collegeville at the 2016 Centennial Conference Championships. Dent Lent from Cardinal Dougherty in Philly, ran a hand-timed 1:53.9 in 1987, which converts to about the same time.
Kenny, who’s from Margate, has an outdoor PR of 1:55.66 from the Widener Invitational in Chester, Pa., in April of 2022. He just ran his previous indoor PR of 1:56.21 last month in Lexington, Va.
At St. Augustine, Kenny ran 2:02.11 indoors at 2020 Parochial A states at the Bubble and 1:57.46 outdoors in the spring of 2021 at Haddonfield Distance Night.
The fastest 800 ever run by a St. Augustine graduate is 1:51.24 by Mark Sivieri in Dedham, Mass., in June 2000.
Audubon’s Scott Hubbard, a sophomore at Rowan, ran 1:55.96 and finished 4th, just behind Kenny.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 