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Canaan Anderson sets Tennessee school record at Vanderbilt Invitational

Canaan Anderson sets Tennessee school record at the Vanderbilt Invitational.

Redshirt sophomore Canaan Anderson set a University of Tennessee school record in the Vanderbilt Invitational Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee.

Anderson set the Vols’ record in the indoor mile run (4:00.13). The previous record was set by John Wright in 1977 (4:02.4).

Anderson’s four-minute mile is the fourth in the Southeastern Conference this season and 18th nationally.

His effort Saturday also eclipses the Vols’ outdoor record in the event of 4:00.19. Ken Barbee set the record in 1986.

Tennessee freshman Yordanos Zelinski, competing in his first collegiate indoor meet, completed the one-mile run in 4:05.66. His mark broke Anderson’s record of 4:05.88. The time was set last season.

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Canaan Anderson breaks freshman mile record

Tennessee’s Canaan Anderson breaks freshman mile record.

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.