COLUMBIAAAAAAA! These girls are always making track and field fans here in New Jersey proud whether competing in state our far away. On Saturday the girls ran a national record in a time of 3:50.82!
The record setting Columbia HS team ran under the team name of Team FitFast , with a 2:06 split on the final 800m leg by Olivia Baker. It's like their special sauce.
The previous record was set at 3:51.90 in 2007 by Eleanor Roosevelt of Greenbelt, MD (A. Charles, D. Anyanwu, Takecia Jameson, M. Walker)
"I knew we were here to get a job done, we were trying to go for the national record"
Here is the video interview with the historic relay team.
Columbia Tc-Nj
1) 711 Baker, Olivia 14 2) 736 Trigg, Cheyenne 16
3) 733 Richardson, Kayla 14 4) 718 Cowan, Emilie 15
5) 715 Clarke, Brianna 15
