Simeon Birnbaum sets NCAA 1500-meter record at Day 2 of Oregon Team Invitational

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Simeon Birnbaum sets NCAA 1500-meter record at Day 2 of Oregon Team Invitational

Someone had to cool off Simeon Birnbaum. Oregon’s 1500-meter weapon was telling his pacer, teammate Tomas Palfrey, to go faster. He peeked at the clock at the bell, then negative-split his final lap by 4.54 seconds en route to an NCAA-record 3:31.69 clock-stopper. It’s only April, but he’s already hot. The water he dumped on himself afterward was the only thing that could cool down the fastest 1500m runner in collegiate history. “It feels incred…