Sam McEntee Goes Sub-4 with 3:57.86 at Penn State

Sam McEntee celebrated his 20th birthday a few days early today at the Penn State National Invitational by crushing the 4:00 barrier in the mile. In only his fourth mile race ever, McEntee, a sophomore from Perth, Australia, finished third in the invitational mile, in 3:57.86. That is an NCAA nationals automatic qualifier for McEntee. He is Villanova's 29th sub-4:00 miler and -- along with Matt Gibney -- the second Villanova runner from Australia to break that magical 4:00 barrier in the last 11 months.

Event 25  Men 1 Mile Run Inv
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Facility Rec: F 3:57.97  2011        Cory Leslie, Ohio State    
 Meet Record: M 3:57.97  2011        Cory Leslie, Ohio State    
   NCAA Auto: A 3:57.90                                         
  PSU Record: * 3:58.49  2011        Ryan Foster                
    Name                    Year School                  Finals 
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Finals                                                          
  1 See, Jeff                    Saucony                3:56.51A
  2 Leslie, Cory              JR Ohio State             3:56.85A
  3 McEntee, Sam              SO Villanova              3:57.86A
  4 Springer, Andrew          SO Georgetown             4:01.17 
  5 Dawson, Owen                 Unattached             4:01.37 
  6 Mahoney, Travis           JR Temple                 4:02.40 
  7 Kostelac, Anthony         SO Virginia               4:05.12 
  8 Fallon, Chris             JR Ohio State             4:06.43 
  9 Gilland, Taylor           SO Virginia               4:06.45 
 10 Peavey, Bobby             SO Georgetown             4:07.12 
 11 Guarino, Nick                Unattached             4:09.93 
 12 Kaddurah, Omar            FR Georgetown             4:10.44 
 13 Guarino, Josh                Unattached             4:11.67 
 14 Furcht, Ben               SO Georgetown             4:11.76 
 15 Burnett, Clay                Unattached             4:12.70 
 16 Fuller, Brian                Unattached             4:14.33 
 17 Baker, Colin              SO Penn State             4:17.90 
 18 Cunningham, Michael       SR Penn                   4:20.85 
 -- Endress, Wade             FR Penn State                 DNF 
 -- Foster, Ryan                 P F G                      DNF