Townsend Hurdles to Conference Award

HOUSTON – Senior Sydni Townsend ran the third-fastest 400-meter hurdles time in school history and the second-fastest in the American Athletic Conference this year at the J. Fred Duckett Twilight meet on Saturday and was named the conference's Women's Track Athlete of the Week as a result.

Townsend, who won the 400-meter hurdles at Rice on Saturday, ran 57.53 seconds, which ranks second in the conference this season and 29th nationally.

The hurdler has posted back-to-back top 10 program times in the 400 hurdles after running the program's eighth fastest 400 hurdles time at the Mt. SAC Relays.

The senior from Philadelphia, Pa., is just 0.56 seconds away from breaking assistant coach Sandra Glover's school record of 56.97 set in 1991.

Townsend's time is the fastest by a Cougar since 2018 and ranks 10th in the NCAA West Preliminary Round rankings.

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