Lancaster County track and field athlete breaks national record at AAU Junior Olympic Games

DES MOINES, Iowa (WHTM) — Vivian Salerno has added another accolade to her impressive high-school career.

Salerno, a rising junior at Lancaster Country Day who competes for McCaskey’s track and field team, broke an AAU Junior Olympic Games record Wednesday in the 17-18 Girls 800-meter run at Drake Stadium in Des Moines.

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Her time of 2:06.54 beat out second-place finisher Neenah Trusty, who runs for Friends Central in Philadelphia, and topped another Friends Central alum’s previous mark of 2:07.24: Gabrielle Wilkinson, who set the record at the 2016 AAU Junior Olympics before going on to compete for Florida University…

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