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Addy Wiley Wins, With 14-Year-Old Sadie Engelhardt Setting Mile Record at RunningLane Track Championships

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DyeStat.com   Jun 14th 2021, 4:31am
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Wiley clocks national-leading 4:38.14 to improve to No. 9 all-time and eighth-grader Engelhardt achieves historic outdoor mark for her age with 4:40.16 performance in Alabama; Hough gets split decision in mile and 3,200, the latter won by Mueller, with Leath, Monesmith and Wells also earning victories

By Erik Boal, DyeStat Editor

On a night when Addy Wiley of Huntington North ran an Indiana state record and elevated to the No. 9 all-time high school competitor in the girls outdoor mile, her impressive storylines were perhaps upstaged by an athlete she beat Saturday at the RunningLane Track Championships.

Sadie Engelhardt, an eighth-grader who attends Cabrillo Middle School in Ventura, Calif., ran the fastest fully automatic mile time by a 14-year-old female all-time in the world to finish second to Wiley at James Clemens High in Madison, Ala.

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Wiley, a junior, ran 4:38.14, the fastest time by any prep female competitor since 2018, one week after winning the Indiana state 1,600-meter title in 4:45.27. Her previous mile personal best was 4:48.23 from her victory in March at the NSAF USA Meet of Champions in South Carolina.

But it was the momentum of Engelhardt that continued to build even more, with her runner-up effort of 4:40.16 improving on the 14-year-old outdoor mile record of 4:42.00 achieved in 1973 by Mary Decker.

Earlier that year, on March 16, 1973, at the Richmond Coliseum in Virginia, Decker also clocked a hand-timed 4:40.1 in an indoor mile race as part of a series of international meets involving the United States and Russia.

But Engelhardt’s performance is even more significant, considering that it was automatically timed, and in the past two months she has gone from running 4:50.31 against a high school field at the NIKE Chandler Rotary Invitational in Arizona to dropping 10 seconds in a span of four races since.

Wiley and Engelhardt led nine athletes running sub-4:50 in the deepest prep girls mile race since the 2019 Brooks PR Invitational in Washington, where 10 competitors ran under the barrier.

Allison Johnson of Mount Gilead High in Ohio, a Penn State signee, took third in 4:41.29, followed by Stanford-bound Audrey DaDamio of Birmingham Seaholm High in Michigan running 4:42.44 and junior Anastacia Gonzales of Boerne Champion in Texas clocking 4:44.87 to finish fifth.

Although the boys mile didn’t produce the same history as the girls race, there was still a thrilling finish, with junior Riley Hough of Hartland High in Michigan edging Arkansas commit Ben Shearer of The Woodlands Christian in Texas by a 4:07.34 to 4:07.40 margin.

James Donahue, a junior at Belmont Hill in Massachusetts, took third in 4:09.50, as only three athletes achieved sub-4:10 performances.

Hough had been on the other end of a close finish Friday with his 8:56.46 performance in the 3,200, being held off by Nate Mueller of Adel-Desoto-Minburn in Iowa clocking 8:56.31, leading six athletes to eclipse the 9-minute barrier.

Sam Rich of Catawba Ridge in South Carolina ran 8:57.10 to take third, Erik Le Roux of Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado was fourth in 8:57.44, with Arkansas signee Reuben Reina of Har-Ber High placing fifth in 8:58.82 and Grahm Tuohy-Gaydos of Green Mountain in Colorado clocking 8:59.26.

Florida junior standouts Caroline Wells of Winter Springs and Caroline Lehman of Cambridge Christian took the top two spots in the girls 3,200, running 10:08.76 and 10:16.48, respectively.

Jenna Mulhern of West Chester Henderson in Pennsylvania finished third in 10:17.47.

Alex Leath, a sophomore at Vestavia Hills High in Alabama, held off junior Will Sumner of Woodstock High in Georgia by a 1:51.51 to 1:51.67 margin in the boys 800.

Morgan Monesmith of Hathaway Brown High in Ohio produced a dominant effort in the girls 800 to triumph in 2:06.89, more than four seconds ahead of runner-up Gretchen Farley of Park Tudor High in Indiana (2:11.05).



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