RELEAESE DATE: 4/05/03

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CHARITY LEARN BREAKS 1500 RECORD AT MUHLENBURG INVITATIONAL – NATE RIEDER FIRST IN JAVELIN – WOOTEN WINS STEEPLECHASE 

ALLENTOWN – Charity Learn (Troy/North Penn) shattered the 1500 meter school record while Nate Rieder (York/Dallastown) won the javelin and Josh Wooten (Henrietta,NY/Rush-Henreitta) to lead  Mansfield University in it’s first outdoor meet of the season at the Muhlenburg Invitational Saturday afternoon. 

Learn finished second in the 1500, with a record setting time of 4:49.91 and was also part of the school record 8 x 800 relay team of Stephanie Caldwell, Sarah Moore, and Theresa Stanford which finished third with a school record time of 10:10.59. 

Caldwell was third in the 800 meters with a time of 2:22.95 – just shy of the school record. Kathy Schooch also placed for the Mountaineers, finishing third in the long jump with a 16-03.25 effort. 

Rieder won the javelin with a toss of 184-04 while Bryan Taylor was second at 166-02. Rieder also finished third in the discus with a toss of 132-03. 

Wooten crushed the 11 man field in the stepplechase with a time of 9:41.24 – more than 35 seconds faster than his nearest competitor.

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