BYU’s Sarah Edwards sets meet record in 1,000 meters at New Balance

BYU’s Edwards sets meet record in 1,000 meters

NEW YORK — Sarah Edwards set a meet record in the 1,000 meters, finishing in 2 minutes, 48.50 seconds at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational on Friday night.

The Brigham Young sophomore bested the record of 2:51.73 set by Villanova’s Theresa Rush in 2007.

Bo Waggoner of Duke won in the 5,000 meters with a time of 14:16.38, and Duke took the men’s distance medley relay in 9:45.30.

Neely Spence, the daughter of 1992 Olympic marathoner Steve Spence, took the 5,000 for Shippensburg in 16:13.01.

In the day’s closest race, Villanova’s team of Nicole Schappert, Kristen Mahon, Ariann Neutts and Sheila Reid won the women’s distance medley relay in 11:02.83, two hundredths of a second ahead of Tennessee.