Despite having to wait an extra day to race thanks to the blizzard that dropped nearly two feet of snow in Boston over the weekend, the Syracuse men’s distance team was red hot at the track on Sunday.
The day started with Joe Dragon running without a binding and Nathan Henderson breaking four minutes in the mile. Dragon broke his previous mile PR of 4:14.57 by finishing at 3:59.19. Also, Nathan Henderson broke his previous mile PR of 4:00.52 and ran a 3:59.43 to get under the barrier.
The two join former Syracuse runner and Team Canada Olympian Justyn Knight in the Sub-4 club. Knight still holds the Syracuse men’s indoor mile record with a time of 3:55.82 set in 2018.
Teammates Brody Smith (4:05.22), Noah Beveridge (4:14.35) and Joseph Eovaldi (4:14.89) also ran the mile for the orange.
In the 3,000 meters, Jack Whetstone (8:17.09) led the Orange crew to 36th place out of 111 runners. Ethan Wechsler (8:19.17) was 40th, Matthew Dragon (8:58.44) 93rd and Patrick Malone (9:11.35) 104th.
To round out the long weekend at Beantown, JP Trojan finished third overall in a field of 82 in the 5,000 meters. He lowered his personal best in that event to 13:49.04. On Jan. 31, Trojan sits second in the ACC behind NC State’s JP Flavin (13:47.67). Alex Comerford also had a great night in 14:10.62 to secure seventh place. He sits ninth in the conference.
The team will travel to New York City this weekend for the Columbia Challenge at The Armory.
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