
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, January 18— New 307m Mondo track laid out in the Dempsey Center over the summer? Check.
New WA-compliant rail installed on Dempsey’s turns? Check.
Fast miles run at Washington’s first home meet of ’25? Check!
Following the wildly successful meet put on by the miler-rich Husky program last year in conjunction with the UW Invitational, the ’25 Mile City meet, held as part of the Washington Preview, drew over 900 entries ranging from age-group hotshots to Masters runners over a span of 48 heats in 5½ hours.
The invitational sections of the Mile City event saw a facility record 18 men break 4:00, led by Husky Nathan Green, who clocked 3:50.74 to win the fifth and final invitational heat.
The host school’s Kyle Reinheimer (the winner of Friday night’s 800 in a school record 1:46.45), and Briton Henry McLuckie were charged with taking the field through 1000m in 2:24.
Transfer-from North Carolina Reinheimer took the field through the quarter-mile in 58.4, with McLuckie behind him, and 2-time NCAA 1500 titlist Joe Waskom leading the racers.
Reinheimer moved off the track after running a shade under 1:57, leaving McLuckie to carry on.
McLuckie kept going past 1000, clocked unofficially at 2:24 before going through the three-quarter mark in 2:55 and pulling aside.
Green got the jump over Oregon alum Sam Prakel, who still trains under Husky men’s coach Andy Powell, who also guided Prakel as a Duck, and led the final lap, with only Washington’s Ronan McMahon-Staggs going with the duo.
Green never relinquished the lead, going away for the win in a new Dempsey Indoor record time and world-leading mark of 3:50.74 to Prakel’s 3:51.28. Both were under the previous facility record of 3:51.73 set by Luke Houser in winning the inaugural Mile City last year.
“I feel fit, I feel healthy. Just excited for what’s next,” said Green, the ’23 NCAA outdoor 1500 champion.
“I’m trying to take [the young] guys up the way the older guys took me up. I’m just trying to be what my mentors were to me.”
Across 4 heats, 9 Husky milers — nearly enough to pull a sled in the Iditarod — reached the finish line before the minutes digit on the timer clicked over to “4.” That tally bettered the 8 sub-4s by Washington milers at the UW Invitational of ’23. Green was the only one wearing the school’s purple and gold colors in both races.
While a sub-4 mile, like the dollar, ain’t worth what it used to be, the top 6 in the fastest heat all broke 4:00, including BYU alum Kenneth Rooks. The Paris steeple silver medalist was almost an afterthought, finishing 6th in a personal best 3:58.09.
In the previous heat, 10, including five Huskies, broke 4. Washington’s Cole Lindhorst, a transfer from Texas, won the heat in 3:55.04.
The Huskies’ Jamar Distel took heat III in 3:59.32, just ahead of Portland’s Estanis Ruiz.
Since the gates to the Dempsey opened in 2002, the venue has played host to 323 sub-4s.
In the top section of the women’s Mile City clashes, former Oklahoma State All-America Gabija Galvydytė, now training in Eugene as part of the Nike Bowerman TC, easily won in 4:27.97, the fastest time in the world so far.
The Lithuanian outlasted Canadian steeplechaser Grace Fetherstonhaugh, who ran 4:30.09, and Kirstie Schoffield (4:31.55).
Olympic 800 finalist Juliette Whittaker of Stanford ran 4th in 4:31.72, and Husky newcomer Mia Cochran, a transfer from Arkansas, was 6th in 4:33.52.
MILE CITY MEN’S RESULTS
(307m unbanked—OT)—
Mile: III–1. **Jamar Distel (Wa) 3:59.32; 2. Estanis Ruiz’ (Port-Spa) 3:59.99.
IV–1. *Cole Lindhorst (Wa) 3:55.04; 2. *Mark Milner’ (Port-Ire) 3:56.90; 3. *Thomas Boyden (Stan) 3:57.35; 4. Cole Sprout (Stan) 3:57.64; 5. Rhys Hammond (Wa) 3:58.15; 6. Acer Iverson (Wa) 3:58.23; 7. ***Thomas Diamond’ (Wa-Aus) 3:58.46; 8. **Evan Jenkins (Wa) 3:58.48; 9. Wil Smith (Gonz) 3:59.12; 10. Eric Gibson (unat) 3:59.60.
V–1. *Nathan Green (Wa) 3:50.74 (a-c: 4, 4 C);
2. Sam Prakel (adidas) 3:51.28;
3. *Ronan McMahon-Staggs’ (Wa-Ire) 3:51.85 (a-c: 6, 6 C);
4. Leo Daschbach (Wa) 3:55.64; 5. Joe Waskom (adidas) 3:56.33; 6. Kenneth Rooks (Nike) 3:58.09.
WOMEN’S RESULTS
Mile: IV–1. Klara Dess’ (Aus) 4:36.62; 2. Maddie Mooney (unat) 4:37.04.
V–1. Gabija Galvydytė’ (Lit) 4:27.96; 2. Grace Fetherstonhaugh’ (Can) 4:30.09; 3. Kristie Schoffield (unat) 4:31.55; 4. *Juliette Whittaker (Stan) 4:31.72; 5. **Sophia Kennedy (Stan) 4:32.47; 6. *Mia Cochran (Wa) 4:33.52; 7. Addy Townsend’ (Can) 4:35.17; 8. Janette Schraft (XLR8Ia) 4:35.45; 9. Claire Yerby (Wa) 4:35.99.