Conner runs nation’s fastest 5K this season

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BOSTON — University of Maine junior indoor track athlete Corey Conner ran the nation’s fastest Division I 5,000-meter race this season late Friday at the Boston University Terrier Classic, according to me.milesplit.com.

Conner, a distance runner from Townsend, Mass., won the women’s 5K with a time of 16:06.18, finishing roughly three seconds ahead of the second-place finisher from Providence College.

In so doing, she shattered the UMaine women’s 5K record of 16:28.20, which was previously set by Patty McCormick in 1995. Conner also qualified automatically for this year’s NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championship on March 11 and 12 at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

In the first of two days of the BU Terrier Classic, only 5K female runners appeared for the UMaine women. Conner’s older sister, senior Allison, finished 24th with a time of 17:40.73 and junior Kourtney Bonsey took 35th, finishing with a time of 18:22.74.

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