Update by LRC : The USTFCCA has a blurb on the race.
Move over, Villanova.
You too, Washington.
Harvard now has the best distance medley relay in collegiate history.
The Crimson, with 2024 NCAA DI mile champion Maia Ramsden on anchor, in the event at the Penn Relays on Friday. Harvard’s quartet got the baton around in 10:37.55, which obliterated Villanova’s 36-year-old outdoor CR by nearly 11 seconds and surpassed Washington’s indoor CR by nearly six seconds.
Sophia Gorriaran handed off the baton to Chloe Fair in seventh place after a 3:20.36 split over 1200 meters. Fair brought the Crimson up to fourth with a 53.20 split over 400 meters, followed by Victoria Bossong’s 2:02.54 marker on the third leg, which kept Harvard in third. Ramsden showed why she is the premier collegiate miler with a 4:21.47 anchor that sent the Crimson past both eventual runner-up Providence (10:39.04) and eventual third-placer Virginia (10:48.55).
They obliterated old record by 10 seconds. This is the sort of stuff that made Penn Relays great. In the old days, there would even be 8 teams going at it up front, not 3.
The women had bigger balls than the men today. Seriously, it's a f*cking relay and they're running the 1200 tactically? 3:38 guys who can't even man up enough to run sub-60 pace for the 1200. These Nova and Gtown teams would've gotten destroyed by their teams from 40 years ago. Pretty embarrassing.
As someone who was in the ‘87 DMR race where three team broke the world best (aka WR today), I have to admit that was hard to watch today. Other than the Wildcats how many of today’s esteemed mens DMR competitors will look back in almost forty years and be proud that they gave it their all? Not many.
Totally fair... just sounds like something literally any team other than Nova or Georgetown (had lead going into the last 100) should have done something about.
The women had bigger balls than the men today. Seriously, it's a f*cking relay and they're running the 1200 tactically? 3:38 guys who can't even man up enough to run sub-60 pace for the 1200. These Nova and Gtown teams would've gotten destroyed by their teams from 40 years ago. Pretty embarrassing.