Busque put up his career-best in the mile at 4:29.95. Courtesy of HartfordHawks.com
This weekend three University of Hartford Hawk track and field athletes all broke personal records at the teams final track meet before traveling to the Armory in New York City later this month for the America East Indoor Track and Field Championship Meet.
Highlighting performances came from freshman Savannah Brown, not only setting a personal best, but a best for the Hartford women this season with a triple jump mark of 10.68 meters.
Lauren Bossi set a career bests in all of her three events including finishing the 60-meter hurdles in 10.10 seconds, clearing 1.55 meters in the high jump (matching teammate Maggie Fuller), and completing the 500-meter dash in 1:24.01.
Also posting a Hartford season best, junior Tiffany Harrison finished the 400-meter dash in just 58.09 seconds.
Hartford took fourth and sixth in the men’s triple jump with senior Rashawn Providence with a mark of 13.26 meters and sophomore Robert Pepper with his personal best of 13.19 meters.
As the Hawks finished the regular season at the Boston University Scarlet and White Invitational, three seniors set personal best times in their respective races.
Andrew Dwyer, the first time as a collegian, broke the two- minute mark in the 800 meter run to finish 17 with a time of 1:56.15.
Dwyer also ran the 500-meter for the very first time and finished 12 with a time of 1:09.97. John Busque set his career best time in the men’s mile with a time of 4:29.95.
Jennifer Flores nearly broke a school record in the women’s mile finishing with a time of 5:08.37, a mere .01 seconds behind the current Hartford best set in 2009 by Elizabeth Foster. Overall in the event, Flores finished 14.
The Hawks will now prepare themselves for their trip to the America East Indoor Track and Field Championship Meet at the Armory in New York City on February 23 and 24.
After the New England Championships will take place later that week from the 28 to the first of March in Boston.
The NCAA’s will start two weeks later.