5 Hawkeyes Set Career Bests at Drake Relays

DES MOINES, Iowa – The College of Iowa observe and discipline distance group kicked off the 2023 Drake Relays with 5 private bests.

Junior Nick Trattner with a bronze efficiency within the 1,500 meters. The Naperville, Illinois native crossed the end line in 3:47.96 to set his profession finest. Sophomore Ian Geisler additionally posted his private finest within the race, ending in 3:55.60.

Within the males’s 3,000-meter steeplechase, junior Jack Pendergast noticed his quickest time as he crossed the road in 9:04.89, lacking Iowa’s top-10 efficiency record by four-tenths of a second.

Freshman Hayden Kuhn produced his quickest 5,000 meters of the season with a time of 14:33.56.

On the ladies’s facet, senior Maddie Block completed fourth (35:45.92) within the 10,000 meters, and junior Abby Ryon crossed the 5,000-meter end line in 17:29.83 to complete fifteenth.

The Hawkeyes start day two of the Drake Relays with the ladies’s discus throw at 11 a.m. CT on Friday.

HAWKEYE RESULTS:

Males’s 1,500 Meters
3. Nick Trattner – 3:47.96, PR
19. Will Ryan – 3:54.12
23. Ian Geisler – 3:55.60, PR

Males’s 800 Meters
21. Martin Robust – 1:53.39

Girls’s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase
21. Brooke McKee – 10:54.40
30. Emma Gordon – 11:20.18

Males’s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase
25. Jack Pendergast – 9:04.89, PR
33. Yohana Yual – 9:15.66

Girls’s 5,000 Meters
15. Abby Ryon – 17:29.83

Males’s 5,000 Meters
20. Konnor Sommer – 14:28.16
22. Hayden Kuhn – 14:33.56, PR

Girls’s 10,000 Meters
4. Madeline Block – 35:45.92

Males’s 10,000 Meters
13. Aidan King – 30:57.68