University of Southern Indiana Men’s Track & Field senior Chase Broughton (Marengo, Indiana) was named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Men’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Week for the first time in his career.
Competing against a field loaded with NCAA Division I runners; Broughton took the top spot in the mile at the Don Denoon Invitational hosted by Southern Illinois University. The senior’s time of 4 minutes, 06.97 seconds is the third fastest in NCAA Division II this year, earning Broughton an NCAA provisional mark. The adjusted time is also just a half-a-second away from an automatic qualifying time.
Broughton improved his season-best time in the event by nearly 15 seconds, while also giving him his fastest career time in the event. The time is also good enough for the second fastest mile time in USI history.
The Screaming Eagles swept the top-three spots in the event with junior Bastian Grau (Höchstadt, Germany) and freshman Javan Winders (Mansfield, Tennessee) rounding out the top-three. Grau’s time of 4:04.55 is the fifth-fastest time in Division II and also earned a provisional mark. Winder’s earned the 40th-fastest time in the country for 2017.
The award marks the third time this season that a USI men’s runner has earned the award with Grau receiving the honor in back-to-back weeks early this year.
USI returns to action February 10-11 in Allendale, Michigan, for the GVSU Big Meet hosted by Grand Valley State University.
