NATIONAL RECORD by Columbia in the 1600m SMR!!!

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