Lee Sets PR at Penn Relays; Reed In Men’s 5k

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Junior Morgan Lee was one of two Division III student-athletes to compete in the 5000 meters at the Penn Relays and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athlete ran a personal-best time of 17: 02.67 in the 43-competitor event.

She Eclipsed her previous PR of 17: 05.36, which she established at Bucknell University on April 15, while finishing 36th overall. Lee was three seconds from the top-35 finish and nearly seven seconds ahead of the 37th place finisher, a runner from Cornell University (17: 09.19). Sydney Seymour of the University of Tennessee won with a time of 15: 36.00.

Senior John Reed ran in the men’s 5000 meters and crossed the finish line in 14: 21.41 to place 40th of 66 competitors. It was his first outdoor 5k since running a 15: 05.82 at the 2019 Penn Relays. One of eight Division III competitors, he was three seconds from the top-35 finish. Yaseen Abdalla of the University of Texas was the Winner with a time of 13: 47.05.

Reed’s PR in the event, which he has now run three times in college, is 14: 59.4, which he established in April 2019 in a quad meet at Tufts University.

Matt Lecky, a junior for the Engineers, did not compete in the race.