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Topham, Penrod Claim Drake Relays 1500m Titles

DES MOINES, Iowa – Rebekah Topham and Zack Penrod combined to sweep the 110th Drake Relays seeded 1500m races, Friday night at Drake Stadium.

Griswold, Iowa, native Rebekah Topham came out on top in front of her home crowd winning the women's 1500m seeded race with a season best time of 4:24.76. Her time ranks No. 3 in the American Athletic Conference.

Topham ran her first 300m in 55.48, she then moved up to seventh at the 700m mark with her second split being 1:11.16. The redshirt junior wasn't done, she moved up five spaces clocking her third split at 1:11.