Complete Results

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Three members of the Eastern Kentucky University track and field team – seniors Lydia Kosgei and Peter Sigilai and junior Soufiane Bouchikhi – competed at the Indiana University Gladstein Invitational over the weekend. Kosgei (women’s 3,000 meters) and Sigilai (men’s mile) came within one second of breaking school records at the meet, while Bouchikhi ran a top-five time in the country in the men’s 3,000 meters.

Kosgei, who was an honorable mention All-American in the outdoor 5,000 meters last spring, won the women’s 3,000 meters on Friday night with a personal-best time of 9:30.33. The time is the eighth-fastest in the country and it is less than a second from the EKU record of 9:29.39, set by Lisa Malloy in 1989.

Less than an hour after running the 3,000 meters, Kosgei competed in the women’s mile and finished fourth with a time of 4:50.07. That time is currently the 28th-fastest in the country.

Sigilai, a transfer from the University of Tennessee, finished third in the men’s mile on Friday with a personal-best time of 4:04.50, losing only to a pair of runners from Oklahoma. Sigilai’s time is the 12th fastest in the country and the second-fastest in EKU history, just over a second off the school record of 4:03.37, set by Burkhard Wagner in 1991.

Bouchikhi, the two-time defending Ohio Valley Conference Male Cross Cross Country Runner of the Year, placed fifth, but was the third collegiate finisher, in the men’s 3,000 meters on Friday night with a time of 8:02.77. That time is currently the third-fastest in the country. Bouchikhi’s fastest 3,000 meters time is 7:59.20, which he ran at the Notre Dame Alex Wilson Invitational in 2010.

The EKU track and field team returns to action next weekend at the Rod McCravy Memorial Meet at the E.J. Nutter Fieldhouse in Lexington.