EUGENE, Ore.---Cathal Doyle of the men's track and field team registered a new Portland all-time record in the 1500 meter run at the Oregon Twilight meet at Hayward Field on Friday night. Doyle crossed the line in a time of 3:40.54 to claim the program best finish in the event, overtaking the previous record of 3:40.73 set by Jeff Thies back in 2017.
"Tremendous effort! I had a feeling that Cathal might get the record tonight and he did," said men's head coach Rob Conner. He ran smart holding back early and finished hard."
Over in the women's 1500m run, Laura Pellicoro collected the fourth-best all-time finish in program history, earning a two second improvement from her previous PR in the race with a time of 4:20.