MC’s Barr, Greene are Track Performers of the Week

Release Date: May 11, 2005

Zach Barr

Albert Greene

MONMOUTH, Ill. – A pair of Monmouth College track and field athletes know when to peak, and as a result Monmouth College juniors Zach Barr (Roseville, Ill./HS) and Albert Greene (Galesburg, Ill./HS) have been named this week’s Midwest Conference Men’s Track and Field Performers of the Week.

Barr, a distance runner, has run some great races in his Fighting Scot track and cross country career, but his best effort may have come Saturday at the Wisconsin Twilight in Madison. He shaved a whopping 22 seconds off his top steeplechase time and now owns the best time in the nation in that event.

The automatic qualifying time set a school record and was fast enough to beat the three nearest competitors -- all of whom came from large schools -- by 7.5 seconds or more. Barr owns the best steeplechase time in the MWC by 35 seconds.

Greene, competing in the jumps, soared a career-best 22’9-1/4 in the long jump at the Wisconsin Twilight meet to place second to a competitor from the University of Wisconsin. He was sixth in the triple jump in 44’2-1/2. His long jump mark is tops in the conference by nearly a foot.

A physical education major, Barr is the son of Terry and Jeanne Barr of Roseville.

Greene, a communication and theater arts major, is the son of Albert, Jr. and Linda Greene of Galesburg.

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