Cherry Hill East graduate Lexi Tepper, a sophomore at Maryland Baltimore County, broke 5 minutes in the mile for the first time Saturday and recorded the 6th-fastest time in school history.
Tepper ran 4:58.05 and won the mile at the VCU Rams Indoor Invitational at the Virginia Beach Sports Center.
She lowered her PR from 5:02.80 from last indoor season in a meet at the armory. It was also her first individual win on the track as a collegian.
Tepper was out in 75.1, then split 73.3, 76.0 and 73.8, taking the lead from George Mason’s Ella Semple on the final lap.
Sophia Cologer set the UMBC school record of 4:15.87 in the trials of the 2017 IC4A Championships in Boston. Tepper’s time is fastest by a UMBC miler since then.
Tepper’s time is fastest so far this year in the America East.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 