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Nightingale Places Eighth in NCAA Indoor Mile, Earns All-America Honors
March 11, 2007 | Men's Track and Field
Princeton junior David Nightingale took advantage of a second chance to place eighth in the mile at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships Saturday at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Ark., earning All-America honors in the process.
Nightingale, who originally did not qualify for the final after Friday's preliminaries, was reinstated for Saturday's final after an appeal in his Friday heat. The Princeton junior would go on to run 4:03.13 in the final, a tight race that was won by Texas's Lionel Manzano in a time of 3:59.90.
The top 10 runners in the mile final all finished within a span of less than four seconds.
Nightingale was also an All-America in cross country this past fall, finishing 39th nationally at the NCAA championship meet in Indiana in November.
In the heptathlon, Princeton sophomore Duane Hynes finished 10th overall with a score of 5,453. Hynes pole vaulted 14 feet, nine inches and ran the 1,000 meters in just more than 2:47 but could not jump higher than his eighth place standing after the first day of the competition.
On Friday, Princeton women's distance medley relay team placed eighth in that event to score a point for the Tigers in the women's competition.