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Irish Independent
24-04-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Killarney runner Oisín Lynch is fast making a name for himself on US collegiate circuit
Lynch had a career-enhancing success in Southern California where he ran the 800m of his life at the Bryan Clay Invitational meet at the Azuza Pacific University in a time of 1:50.01 Kerryman 'It's the coach and the altitude,' says Connie Lynch, father of Oisín Lynch (Killarney Valley AC and Adams State University, Colorado). Lynch had a career-enhancing success on Friday in Southern California. The kinesiology major ran the 800m of his life so far at the Bryan Clay Invitational meet at the Azuza Pacific University in a time of 1:50.01. This is personal best by over half a second for the Killarney athlete that underscores his huge upward trajectory in middle distance running.
USA Today
19-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Washington school record sets tone for outdoor track & field season
Washington school record sets tone for outdoor track & field season Fresh off a bevy of program-best finishes in the indoor season, the Washington Huskies track & field team got off to a blazing start in their first widely-attended outdoor meets of the year. With two meets in southern California - the Bryan Clay Invitational and Mt. SAC Relays - happening concurrently, the Huskies had plenty of chances to fly up the school leaderboards. Indoor All-American Kyle Reinheimer set the foundation for the week with a school record in the 800m at the Bryan Clay Invitational, swinging all the way into lane 3 around the final corner en route to a 1:46.09 finish. Reinheimer charged across the line in first place after entering the final turn in fifth, breaking Nathan Green's program record and putting himself at No. 4 in the NCAA this season in the process. Paris Olympian Sophie O'Sullivan spent the indoor season in Australia because she lacked another season of collegiate indoor eligibility, but she donned a UW uniform again on Thursday to kick off her final outdoor season as a Husky. The Irishwoman took on an elite field of 800m runners at Bryan Clay, finishing in third in 2:00.61 and matching Reinheimer at No. 4 in the NCAA this season. Behind O'Sullivan, Clair Yerby set a personal best in 2:04.47, the No. 8 time in school history. Late in the California night, distance men Acer Iverson, Evan Jenkins, Jamar Distel, Leo Daschbach, and Tyrone Gorze were split among three heats of the 5,000 meters. Iverson and Jenkins finished third and fifth in the first heat with times of 13:33.67 and 13:35.03 to set new No. 4 and No. 5 marks in program history. Distel won the final heat, closing at 11:30 pm Thursday night, in a personal best of 13:37.54 to catapult himself into No. 7 in school history. Just down the road at Mt. SAC, heptathlete Sofia Cosculluela matched Reinheimer and O'Sullivan's standings in the NCAA this season with a total of 5,817 points. The 2024 Spanish national champion set a personal best in the javelin and put the rest of the NCAA on notice in her first major meet as a Husky. Cincinnati transfer Leonie Troeger made her Husky debut as well, landing at No. 7 in program history with a javelin throw of 161-10. Jack Olsen won the men's javelin with back-to-back throws of 216-3. On Friday, Washington doubled back with their stable of milers leading the way. Chloe Foerster continued her strong season after a dominant showing at the Stanford Invitational, breaking a Bryan Clay meet record in the 1500m previously held by Shelby Houlihan, a former US champion, with a 4:05.75. That time also lowered her personal best by almost two full seconds, solidifying her hold on the No. 2 spot in school history and moving her into No. 5 on the NCAA all-time list and No. 2 in this season's NCAA standings. (O'Sullivan's school record of 4:00.23 does not count for the NCAA all-time leaderboards because she ran it at the Olympics, not an NCAA event.) Washington put five other women under 4:15 in the event - O'Sullivan finished third in the race in 4:08.69. Maggie Liebich rocketed to No. 8 in school history in 4:12.35, while Mia Cochran and Amina Maatoug tied for No. 10 in program history in 4:12.65. Yerby ran a personal best of 4:14.78, while Julia David-Smith clocked 4:17.33. It was a Husky 1-2 in the men's you count alumni. Nathan Green ran his first race since the indoor season, outpacing Washington alum Sam Ellis 3:35.52 to 3:35.57. Green also held off Georgetown's Abel Teffra, who nicked Green at the line at the NCAA Indoor Championships to break Washington's streak of titles in the event. Teffra was third in 3:35.81. Ronan McMahon-Staggs, Rhys Hammond, and Martin Barco all went under 3:40 as well, with McMahon-Staggs at 3:38.23 and Hammond at 3:38.24 earning the no. 5 and 6 spots in school history. At Mt. SAC, the headliner was freshman Bodi Ligons, who won the 400m hurdles with a personal best of 51.10 to set the No. 8 time in program history. Mikayla Gardley (400m hurdles), Ava Washburn (long jump and triple jump), and Rachel Bir (triple jump) all set personal bests as well. Washington continues their outdoor season next week with the Penn Relays in Philadelphia.
Forbes
18-04-2025
- Sport
- Forbes
Is This Utah Teenager The Best Girls Track Athlete In History? She Certainly Looks The Part
ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 12: Jane Hedengren of Timpview wins the girls two miles in a national ... More high school record 9:34.12 in the 57th Arcadia Invitational at Arcadia High School on April 12, 2025 in Arcadia, California. (Photo by) Standing maybe just a shade over 6-feet, Jane Hedengren is fast becoming one of the all-time greats in high school running. The 18-year-old from Provo, Utah, is currently amid one of the biggest tears in high school track and field history. On Thursday, the Timpview High School senior became the first American teenager to secure a result under 15 minutes for 5,000 meters, posting a time of 14:57.93 against a sea of collegiate and professional women at the Bryan Clay Invitational in California, finishing third in the race. Her performance is now the 11th-fastest performance in the world for 2025 and a new U.S. under-20 record. The previous best time for an U20 athlete? 15:20.57. The time suggests, maybe sooner rather than later, that she can compete on the world stage. With qualifying for the World Championships in Tokyo fast arriving, Hedengren is currently ranked seventh among American women—though for reference, the winning time for the women's 5,000 meters at the U.S. Olympic Trials in June was Elle St. Pierre's highly-strategic 14:40.34. 'She's certainly made an incredible jump in the last year to insert herself in the conversation," said Chris Chavez, the founder of Citius Mag, a network dedicated to coverage of all levels of track and field. "The key thing for Jane to become a contender for the team would be learning to close hard in a championship-style race.' That being said, Hedengren's performance wasn't surprising. Last week, she set a national record at two miles. A month earlier, she broke the high school mile record, and in December she nabbed a national championship in cross country. Hedengren's last loss was six months ago. 'I was really set on, 'I'm going to come into this race feeling really good today,'' Hedengren told FloTrack after her 5K record. High school track and field results are all fickle. They change year to year. Athletes come and go. But the legendary figures—names like Katelyn Tuohy and Mary Cain—and their career successes have held around. Tuohy was a generational talent from New York who won three national cross country championships and set a slew of national high school records over her time for North Rockland. She's long been considered the GOAT of distance running at the high school ranks, surpassing Cain, who last held that mantle and reached the World Championships in 2013 as a high schooler at Bronxville. Tuohy's national success stretched over three seasons before she went on to have a dazzling career at North Carolina State, winning a handful of individual and team titles with the Wolfpack. Cain, meanwhile, turned pro out of high school in 2014. Is this six-month stretch enough to create a legend out of Hedengren? 'I think Jane's indoor and outdoor tear put her on the Mt. Rushmore of high school girls distance running," Chavez said. "She's already beating college women without having taken a single class at BYU. (But) I think I still give the edge to Mary Cain as the best high schooler because she was able to make the 1,500m final at the World Championships in 2013 and it was in an era before super shoes.' That worldview really depends on the person. Are legends the product of years of service? Or can an athlete who flies close to the sun for a short amount of time have the same impact? The future Brigham Young University athlete now owns six high school national records. She finished her high school cross country career with the fastest performance ever recorded for the 5,000 meter distance. Tuohy's best moments in high school have all been supplanted. So have Cain's. In time, so will Hedengren's. Arcadia, CA - April 12: Jane Hedengren of Timpview (Utah) wins the women's 2 mile invitational ... More during the 2025 Arcadia Invitational at Arcadia High School in Arcadia on Saturday, April 12, 2025.(Photo by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images) That's the evolution of track and field in this country. Records are like door stops. All of them are meant to move. Then again, Hedengren's run does feel a bit different. She certainly doesn't look like your typical high school running superstar, towering over most of her competitors. She also comes from a long-line of high performers on the track – her father, John, ran at BYU and was inducted as a Hall of Famer in 2015. Her brother, Isaac, currently competes for the Cougars. Running was in Hedengren's DNA growing up. A year from now, she'll be competing for BYU's Diljeet Taylor, considered one of the NCAA's top distance minds. The Cougars won the NCAA title in cross country this past fall, too. Thursday was Hedengren's first true race against athletes outside high school. What's more incredible is the fact that she beat Florida's Hilda Olemomoi, a 10-time first-team NCAA All-American; Georgetown's Chloe Scrimgeor, a 7-time NCAA All-American; and Stanford's Sophia Kennedy, a 4-time NCAA All-American, in that 5K at Bryan Clay. These women are all headed to the professional ranks. Hedengren, meanwhile, is still 18, still in high school, and still a few months away from graduation. 'High schoolers are not shy about pushing themselves to the limit and with all of these advances in training, technology and mental breakthroughs – all these records need to be written in pencil,' Chavez said. Sooner rather than later, maybe that legendary status will be cemented.
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
BYU commit demolishes national high school 5K record
Timpview's Jane Hedengren wins the Timpanogos Invitational cross-country meet in Orem on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News Utah high school runner Jane Hedengren broke another national record on Thursday. At the 2025 Bryan Clay Invitational, Hedengren, a star for Timpview High, ran 14:57.93 to shatter the high school national record for the 5,000 meters. Advertisement The time bests the outdoor record of 15:25.27 that Elizabeth Leachman set in 2024 and the indoor record of 15:13.26 that Hedengren set almost exactly a month ago at the Nike Indoor Nationals. On Thursday, Hedengren finished third overall in the 5,000 meter race, five seconds behind BYU's Lexy Halladay-Lowry, who finished second. New Mexico's Pamela Kosgei won the race with a time of 14:52.45. Halladay-Lowry's time of 14:52.93 broke the BYU record set by Whittni Morgan (15:12.90) in 2021 by almost 20 seconds, per the university. What Jane Hedengren said after the race Hedengren has been on a tear as of late, setting indoor national records for the high school 5,000 meter and the mile (4:26.14) at the Nike Indoor Invitational as well as the two-mile (9:34.12), which she set just six days ago. Advertisement Before beating her own 5,000 meter record Thursday and becoming the first high school girl to run the race in under 15 minutes, Hedengren woke up with a sore throat, she told reporters post-race. 'I'm just so grateful to have competed tonight. I woke up sick this morning, and so, I just really didn't know how it was going to go,' she said, per FloTrack. She added, 'It was just a great opportunity to be out here and I'm so glad that like my body was able to pull through and I was able to feel decent today.' Hedengren on running for BYU After the race, the BYU commit expressed her excitement to join the BYU team. Advertisement 'I'm so excited for BYU. They're just such great women. I'm excited to build my relationships on that team,' she said. Hedengren already knows 'pretty much everyone on the team,' she said. 'But it's different when you're in the workouts with them, like hanging out all the time. You really get to know people. So I'm really looking forward to that aspect for sure,' she said.
