Forty five years later, there is a new team record in the girls 1,600-meter race at Bishop O’Connell High School.
Senior distance runner Molly Weithman set that mark with a time of 5:01.2 at the recent Roadrunners Invitational meet at the indoor facility on the George Mason University campus. The old time was 5:03 held by Eve Brennan, set in 1979. Brennan also was a standout girls swimmer for O'Connell back then.
The 5:01.2 mark is the fastest by an O’Connell female runner for both the indoor or outdoor seasons. In setting the new time, Weithman finished second in the race at George Mason.
“Molly had been getting close and she finally set the record,” O’Connell coach Jim Connor said.
Weithman, who will run at the College of William and Mary, will have other opportunities to lower her new 1,600 record during the outdoor spring track and field season.
Weithman has been a standout runner during her years at O’Connell, winning two Division I state private-school girls cross country championships and winning other state titles during the indoor and outdoor track and field meets.
