Rider’s Maddie Dischert from Atlantic City PR’d at 1,500 meters Saturday as part of an 800-1,500 double at a home meet in Lawrenceville.
Dischert ran 2:21.85 in a rare 800 and 4:37.13 in the 1,500, placing 2nd in both at the Rider 6-Way Invitational. It was her first collegiate 800 and first overall 800 since the 2022 indoor season, when she ran 2:44.07 as a high school junior at the Bubble.
This was also her first official college 1,500, although she did run 4:58.17 in a mile at the Armory last month.
The 4:37.13 is less than half a second off the Rider all-time top-10, which goes down to 4:36.82. Indoors, Dischert is 3rd-fastest in school history in the 5,000 at 16:59.86 at Boston University and 5th in the 3,000 with 9:53.09 at the Armory as well as 8th with that 4:58.17 mile. None of those marks are listed yet on Rider’s out-dated all-time performance lists.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 