Only three full weeks in to the new year and it appears sprinter Lauren Gale is looking to make 2022 a year to remember. The fourth year student at Colorado State University won her second meet in as many weeks, topping the 400 metre field at the Air Force Academy Invitational with a time of 52.98 seconds.
Saturday victory was the fourth consecutive for Gale at the annual event in Colorado Springs. Each successive year has seemingly seen her margin of victory grow over the field from less than a second in her freshman year to 2.71 seconds yesterday.
Gale currently sits in 14th and 12th on the early season NCAA rankings for the 200 and 400 metres respectively. She and her CSU Rams teammates return to action next week at the Colorado Invitational in Boulder.
Elsewhere in the NCAA it was a quiet week for Lions members with Kevin Robertson (Syracuse), Shona McCulloch (Syracuse), Joe Fast (Princeton), Sharelle Samuel (Harvard), Tommy Nedow (Southeastern Louisiana) and Keira Christie-Galloway (Arizona State) all not competing.