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Centrowitz breaks Penn mile record
By BRIAN FUNK For the Maryland Gazette
Published 04/28/07

PHILADELPHIA - The Penn Relays record for the high school boys mile run had stood for the last 35 years. Not anymore, thanks to Broadneck High School senior Matthew Centrowitz.

It wasn't enough that he became the first runner to win the 3,000-meter run in one year and follow it up with a mile victory the next, but Centrowitz also took down one of the oldest records in the books of a meet that spans over 113 years.

The Oregon signee was clocked at 4 minutes, 8.38 seconds, which bests Gordon Oliver's (Bethesda-Chevy Chase) record of 4:08.7 set in 1972.

"Whenever you come into a meet like this, you check out what the record...

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