A Tennessee freshman track and field record has fallen.
Tennessee distance specialist Canaan Anderson set the freshman men’s one-mile run record Friday at the Virginia Tech Challenge at the Rector Field House in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Anderson, a native of Murfreesboro, Tennessee and graduate of Siegel High School, won the event in 4 minutes, 5.88 seconds.
His time was nearly two seconds off the previous record, which was set in 2004 by Dusty Miller (4:07.04).
Miller is one of three Tennessee distance runners to break a freshman record this season.
He joins Lady Vols’ Brooke Dixon, Kayla Gholar and Rachel Sutliff, who have broken freshmen records in the past three weeks.
Dixon broke the women’s freshman record in the mile run. Gholar has the record in the 3,000-meter run and Sutliff owns the rookie record in the 5,000-meter run.