Track by the numbers: When Shelley Taylor...

Track by the numbers: When Shelley Taylor of Edison won the 1,600 meters in 4 minutes 51.98 seconds, then came back two hours later to run the anchor leg on the Chargers’ distance medley relay in 4:53.0 at the Arcadia Invitational Saturday, it raised an interesting question:

Has an Orange County girl ever run two 1,600s that fast in one meet?

We dug through a few track and field record books and couldn’t find much information on the subject.

We did notice that the 4:35.24 mile by University’s Polly Plummer in the 1982 Pepsi Invitational at UCLA remains the fastest by a U.S. high school girl. And we noticed that Taylor’s time of 4:51.98 ranks only third on the Edison all-time list, behind Sharon Hulse’s 4:49.1 (in 1978) and Leslie Pratt’s 4:51.67 (in 1983).

But we’re still curious to know if anyone has run two miles as fast as Taylor did Saturday.