The Great Lakes Valley Conference named University of Southern Indiana junior Jennifer Comastri this week’s Women’s Track Athlete of the Week, announced by the league office on Wednesday morning.
Comastri made her case for the award by winning the mile by 16 seconds at the Greyhound Invitational with a time of 4 minutes, 56.88 seconds giving her third NCAA II provisional qualifying mark of the indoor season. Comastri’s now converted time of 4:53.97 moves her up to third in the GLVC and bumps her up to seventh nationally.
Comastri currently is the only NCAA II female distance runner to be ranked in the top 10 nationally in all three of her events; the 3000 meters (10th), the 5000m (fourth) and the mile (seventh). This is the first career GLVC track & field weekly award in Comastri’s career and the second of any kind for the USI women’s track & field team thus far in the indoor season.
Up Next: Comastri and the Screaming Eagles will make a short road trip to Greencastle, Indiana for the Depauw Indoor Invitational with events starting at 4 P.M. (CST).
