university of oregon ducks track and field

It was quite the successful closeout of the month of April for Oregon Track and Field.

Klaudia Kazimierska picked up her second Drake Relays win of the weekend and Silan Ayyildiz broke the outdoor collegiate record in the mile Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa. At Penn Relays, the Men of Oregon broke the school record in the 4×800 meters.

The UO men left Philadelphia with a pair of runner-up finishes, capping their weekend at Penn Relays with a school record in Saturday’s 4×800-meter relay. Simeon Birnbaum, Rheinhardt Harrison, Koitatoi Kidali, and Matthew Erickson combined for a time of 7:14.10, second behind Georgetown, that pulled ahead over the final strides of the shorter finishing stretch at Franklin Field.

Birnbaum, Harrison, Kidali and Erickson eclipsed the previous UO standard of 7:15.46 run at last year’s Penn Relays.

Next up for Oregon is the OSU High performance meet in Corvallis, the Desert Heat Classic in Tucson, and the Oregon Twilight back in Eugene.