No one had ever run a sub-four-minute mile in Nashville.

The Sea Ray Relays are a track athlete’s paradise: warm weather and solid competition usually make for the fast postseason qualifying times that runners are looking for.

While the Stanford Invitational serves as an opportunity to rack up some fast times early in the outdoor season, for redshirt junior Mike Banks, it meant much more than that.

While the track and field world may be eagerly anticipating the NCAA Indoor Championships this upcoming weekend, the performance of the Georgetown men’s track team at the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) Championships gave a glimpse of what the Hoyas are capable of as the indoor season comes to a close.

The Georgetown track and field teams continued on their crescendo to the Big East Indoor Championship this past weekend, qualifying a host of Hoyas to the conference championship during the two-day Virginia Tech Invitational this past weekend.

The anticipation has been building steadily throughout the fall for a number of members on the Georgetown track and field squad — having trained tirelessly for months while watching their fellow teammates perform in the cross country season, both the men and women’s indoor track teams eagerly took to the track at Bucknell’s Bison Opener this past Saturday, providing a glimpse of the team’s encoura