Started by what may have been the fastest leadoff 1,200 leg ever run indoors, Villanova went on to run 10:56.12 in the women’s distance medley relay Friday night on Day 1 of the Columbia Last Chance meet at the Armory in New York, pulling three other teams under the magical 11-minute barrier with them.
In a race intended as an attempt to get under the NCAA auto-qualifying time of 11:05.50, four teams did just that, and went way under in the process. Virginia (10:59.33), Connecticut (10:59.99) and Georgetown (11:00.67) all broke their school records. When the season began, UConn’s had been 11:35. The Cavaliers and Huskies became just the eighth and ninth college teams ever to break 11:00. Villanova remarkably was the one school that did not set a school record, because that ma...
