Greensboro, N.C., USASarah Bowman won the Girl’s Mile in 4:36.95 for the fastest U.S. time ever run in a high school only race. The performance took place in the Nike Outdoor Nationals at North Carolina A&T University on 18 June.
Bowman’s mark ranks third on the all-time American high school list and was a meet record. The race featured two athletes under 4:40 with runner-up Brie Felnagle of Tacoma, Wash. clocking 4:39.91.
Bowman and Felnagle became only the fourth and fifth runners to run under 4:40 with Polly Plumer’s national record of 4:35.24 set in 1982, the late Kim Gallagher’s mark of 4:36.94 in 1982 and Arie Lambie’s 4:37.23 effort in 2003.
Alexandria Anderson and J-Mee Samuels swept the 100m and 200m in the two-day post season high school meeting. Anderson posted wins in the girls 100m in 11.39 and 200m in 23.05 for the fastest time in the U.S. this season by a prep athlete.
Anderson, a University of Texas-bound senior at Morgan Park in Chicago who won the 100m, 200m,, 400m and Long Jump at the Illinois AA state meet, equaled the meet record set by Sanya Richards in the 100m and was two hundredths off Richards’ record in the 200m.
Samuels, a senior who hails from nearby Mt. Tabor High in Winston-Salem, won the 100m in 10.34 and set a meet record of 20.76m in the 200m to dip under the record of 20.76 set by LSU freshman Xavier Carter last year.
Another Georgia athlete Justin Oliver, who won the 400 in the Golden West Invitational last week, won the 400 in 46.11. Scott Roth, a Granite Bay High (Calif.) junior also repeated his Golden West win, with a clearance of 5.24m in the Pole Vault.
In the girls’ 400m Hurdles, Krystal Cantey of New Jersey ran a nation-leading 56.93 to defeat Penn Relays champion Nicole Leach of Philadelphia West Catholic after the UCLA-bound senior hit the last hurdle.
In the boys’ distances, Mark Matusak, a senior from Los Angeles Loyola High who will attend Cal, avenged a defeat to Arkansas signee Chris Barnicle of Newton North (Mass.) to win the Two Mile, 8:51.13 to 8:52.19, for the fastest time in the nation this season and lead six athletes under 9:00.
In the Mile, Middletown (Ohio) senior Jeff See, the national sophomore record holder in the mile, won at 4:04.83.
Kirby Lee for the IAAF
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