The University of Southern Indiana’s seniors Jennifer Comastri and Austin Nolan have both been named Indoor Track Athletes of the Week for women’s and men’s track & field, respectively by the Great Lakes Valley Conference Wednesday afternoon.
Comastri finished third in the mile last Saturday at the Samford Open, on her way to grabbing a new NCAA II provisional qualifying time of four minutes, 56.62 seconds. Comastri’s mile time currently sits at 11th in all the nation and this is the third GLVC weekly honor in her career (cross country 2019) (track & field 2020).
Nolan grabbed national attention out of the gates by winning the five thousand meter in under 14 minutes with a NCAA II automatic qualifying time of 13:58.75. Nolan’s 5000m time is now both second in the nation and in the USI record books. Nolan also now boasts five career GLVC weekly awards including (cross country 2018, twice), (cross country 2019) and (track & field 2020).
Up next: Comastri and Nolan will get ready to compete again Saturday in the Northwest Missouri Invite held in Maryville, Missouri.
