Moorestown’s Will Inglis, a sophomore at Elizabethtown, ran the a huge 800 PR and the 7th-fastest time in school history Thursday in Williamstown, Mass.
Inglis ran 1:52.37 and placed 3rd in the All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference Championships at Williams College.
His previous PR was a 1:53.49 just last week when he placed 2nd in the Landmark Conference Championships in Selinsgrove, Pa. Inglis never ran under 1:57 until last month at Millersville, and his PR before he arrived at E-town was a 2:02.10 at 2023 South Jersey Group 3 Sectionals at Delsea. He ran 2:00.31 indoors as a freshman at the Armnory but incredibly didn’t break two minutes until April 4.
Now he’s one of the fastest in school history and 6th-fastest in NCAA Division 3 Mid-Atlantic Region.
This isn’t a meet where you can double the 800 and 1,500, but at the conference meet Inglis PR’d in the 1,500 with a giant PR of 3:53.42. His previous best was a 4:04.93 two weeks earlier in York, Pa., and before that 4:18.94, also in York.
Inglis’s 3:53.42 is the equivalent of a 4:12.09 for a full mile or 4:10.62 for 1,600 meters. His high school PR was 4:35.53 in May of 2023 at Delsea, so he’s gotten 25 seconds faster in two years.
His 3:53.42 is 3rd-fastest in school history and fastest in 18 years, since Patrick Donovan ran 3:51.61 at Swarthmore in May 2007. It’s 8th-fastest in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 