By Doug Binder, DyeStat Editor

Once again, New Balance Nationals Indoor arrives in New York with a handful of all-time great girls ready to take on history, further cement their own legacies, and climb toward futures brimming with promise.

It should be an amazing weekend of action as to best female athletes in the country demonstrate their fitness and determination.

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Here are 10 storylines we will be closely following.

1 - Athing Mu. The junior from the Trenton Track Club emerged two weeks ago at the Toyota USATF Indoor Championships as one of the incandescent lights of track and field – now and into the future.

Mu’s family emigrated to the United States from South Sudan and her story exemplifies the American dream.

Mu beat five-time NCAA champion Raevyn Rogers in the finals of the women’s 600 meters. She nearly broke the world record. It might have been the biggest achievement of the weekend at Staten Island.

At New Balance Nationals Indoor, Mu has her sights set on the high school record in the 800 meters, and if she’s healthy and feeling good, who would doubt her ability to get it? It might be the most eagerly anticipated race of the weekend.

A second finish tape and timing camera is being set up at 880 yards in order to allow Mu to try and officially break Mary Decker's 1974 national record of 2:02.4.

2 - Briana Williams. The double World U-20 Championships gold medalist, who is coached in the Miami area by Ato Boldon, made a recent decision to come to New York and race in the 60-meter dash. Boldon likes the idea of giving her a challenge. Williams hasn’t run an indoor 60 in three years and she’ll have to perform well if she wants to win. The 60 doesn’t allow for too many mistakes. It will take poise and a quick burst at the start to pull it off.

3 – Tamari Davis. Another Floridian with a professional approach to sprinting, Davis is the reigning champion in the 60 and 200, when she made a sparkling debut as a freshman. This time, Davis is focused solely on the 200 meters, but any time she runs it’s worth stopping to watch. Davis has a star quality that just seems to grow brighter season after season. She ran 23.24 to win the 200 last year, barely missing an Armory track record held jointly by Sanya Richards and Ashton Purvis (23.22).

4 – Anna Hall. Two weeks ago at the Toyota USATF Indoor Championships, Hall obliterated the national high school record in the pentathlon with a point total that would make her tough to beat at NCAAs this weekend (4,302 points). The perfectionist in Hall, a senior at Valor Christian CO, evaluated her own performance and saw mistakes. A sub-par long jump, for instance. The Georgia signee wants more. She said her goal at the USATF meet was 4,400, so she might be shooting for that this weekend, although she won’t have Kendell Williams and others pushing her. Hall is also entered in the high jump, where she is the defending champion.

5 – Katelyn Tuohy. Katelyn Tuohy at 5? This is clearly a no-particular-order ranking. No one will be more recognizable than Tuohy at New Balance Nationals Indoor. The junior will be making her fifth appearance in the meet. She has built a resume that is at the level of G.O.A.T. among girls high school distance runners, with records from the mile to the 5,000. But at this meet, she loves anchoring her team to relay victories more than anything else. Tuohy and North Rockland have won the girls distance medley relay championship three years in a row and are entered again in Friday’s final. A good result there would kick off the weekend nicely for Tuohy, who won New York state titles in the 1,500 meters and 3,000 meters last weekend. She is racing the 2-mile this weekend, an event she won last year in 9:58.89. The all-time record is 9:38.68 by Mary Cain in 2013.

6 – Jasmine Moore. She has a chance to become the first jumper to win three NBNI titles in the triple jump this weekend. The senior from Mansfield Lake Ridge TX has been a dominant figure in this event since her freshman year, when she jumped 43-5.75 outdoors. She comes into the weekend ranked No. 1 with a best this season of 43-0. That’s also her indoor PR and ranks sixth all-time. This meet presents a final opportunity to go after the national indoor record of 44-6.75 by Ke’Niya Richardson of Holy Names CA (2007).

7 – Kayla Davis. Just a high school freshman, she has shown signs of future greatness this winter running for her Run U Xpress club. She raced to third place in the women’s 300 meters at the Toyota USATF Indoor Championships, finishing only behind Brittany Brown’s world leading time, and New Balance pro Gabby Thomas. Davis ran 37.46 and moved to No. 3 all-time. So, there isn’t anyway she’s going to be intimidated by her first NBNI. Davis is entered in the 200 and 400 this weekend. How explosive would a Davis (Tamari) vs. Davis (Kayla) final in the 200 be? Stay tuned.

8 – Taylor Ewert. Back on Feb. 9 at the NYRR Millrose Games, Ewert of Beavercreek, Ohio won the U.S. senior title in the 1-mile racewalk, smashing her own national high school record in the process with 6:28.21. That’s right. Ewert can cover a mile without ever leaving the ground. She is entered in the same event at NBNI, where she is the defending champion with a meet record 6:49.20. Ewert is also part of the big 2-mile field that includes Tuohy and Glenbard West IL’s Katelynne Hart.

9 – Morgan Smalls. At the North Carolina state indoor championships, she cranked out US#1 marks in the high jump (6-1) and long jump (19-11.25) and US#2 in the triple jump (41-9.25) to win Class 4A titles. The junior from Panther Creek can do just about anything. If she can win multiple crowns this weekend she could set herself up to be one of the most celebrated athletes of the season. It will mean she won head to head matchups with either Moore (Long/Triple) or Hall (HJ).

10 – The Shuttle Hurdles Relay. This is a peculiar event that doesn’t get contested in too many places. But it’s part of New Balance Nationals and the national record frequently goes up in flames at the indoor championships. Last year, Bullis MD got the better of Western Branch VA and broke the record with 30.44 seconds. This year, Western Branch has all four hurdlers back from last year’s second-place team, and a chance at redemption. Shadajah Ballard and Jazmine Tilmon are a lethal 1-2 punch for Branch, but Bullis isn’t going to let go of the title easily. It could take another record-breaking time to win. Probably will.