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Katelyn Tuohy Authors Another Chapter in Historic Indoor Season With ACC 3,000-Meter Title

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DyeStat.com   Feb 26th 2023, 12:30am
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Tuohy Still Plotting NCAA Options After Winning 3,000 In Louisville; Virginia Tech Sweeps ACC Team Titles; Cameron Miller Graces Home Track With 20.27 In 200m

By David Woods for DyeStat

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Katelyn Tuohy is positioned to complete one of the greatest four-month stretches in collegiate running history.

The NCAA Division 1 Indoor Championships will cap it off in two weeks. (No, she is not tripling.) Whatever Tuohy does, though, it will be historic. Because everything has been.

Since mid-November, she has run to an epic come-from-behind win in NCAA cross country, set collegiate records at one mile and 3,000 meters, and set a world record (of sorts) in a distance medley relay anchor.

On Saturday, she used a 2:45 closing kilometer to set a meet record of 8:51.92 for 3,000 meters in the Atlantic Coast Conference meet.

It was appropriate to have a star like Tuohy shine in the two-year-old Norton Healthcare Sports & Learning Center, a 4,000-seat venue built for $50 million and located off Muhammad Ali Boulevard.

“Stands are packed, and I love it,” said Cameron Miller of host Louisville. He was exultant after running the third-fastest 200 meters in the world this year, 20.27.

Virginia Tech claimed women’s and men’s team championships. It was the eighth successive year the same school took both.

Tuohy ran a 4:23.36 anchor for North Carolina State in Thursday’s distance medley relay, the fastest ever. Elle Purrier-St. Pierre had the previous best of 4:23.60 for a New Balance team setting a world record of 10:33.85 on April 15, 2022, at Boston.

Duke, anchored by Amina Maatoug’s 4:29.84, set an ACC record of 10:49.87 in the DMR, or three seconds off Washington’s recent collegiate record. The outcome pushed Duke, Notre Dame (10:51.52) and N.C. State (10:52.16) to Nos. 5, 8 and 10 on the all-time schools list, respectively.

“Basically, I wanted to win. I was really upset with my last 50 meters,” said Tuohy, who briefly climbed to second place.

Excluding two relays, she has not lost to another college runner over 12 races, a streak extending to May 2022: three outdoors, five cross country, four indoors.

In the ACC 3,000, Tuohy spent the first two kilometers near the front. Then she gapped everyone.

“We just wanted to work on getting a little bit faster each lap in the last (kilometer) or 800. I think we executed it pretty well,” she said.

N.C. State coach Laurie Henes said she is still talking to Tuohy about NCAAs, in which the runner has qualified in the mile, 3,000, 5,000 and DMR. There is a lot to manage – training and racing, indoors and outdoors, college season and summer championships.

“She makes that very easy,” Henes said. “There’s not a lot of managing on my part. We just pick the things we think are important and go after NCAAs and a little bit the ACC Championships. And try to make sure we’re careful with everything else.”

A dropped baton in the climactic 4x400 relay caused heartbreak for Duke, which was edged by Virginia Tech 93-91 in women’s team scoring. Clemson had 68 for third and N.C. State 61 for fourth.

Duke anchor Megan McGinnis drifted slightly to her right into lane 2, and the baton was knocked from her hand by Miami (Fla.) freshman Sanaa Hebron a step from the finish. Duke crossed first by .02 but was disqualified. Miami set a meet record of 3:32.56. McGinnis had won the 400 in 52.57.

Last year Duke was tied 86-86 by Virginia Tech, which has won or shared three of the past four team titles.

Elsewhere in women’s events:

>> Notre Dame sophomore Jadin O’Brien repeated in the pentathlon with 4,377 points, highest score in the NCAA. She said she was disappointed with her 60 hurdles time of 8.53 Thursday  but knew “to shake it off” and stay composed. “None of the events were PRs,” O’Brien said. “Some of them not even close to what I can do. There’s a lot of room for me to improve.” She ran a 53.22 leg in the 4x400.

>> Track MVP was Maatoug, a 20-year old from the Netherlands. Besides her DMR anchor, she was third in the 800 in 2:03.45 and second in the 3,000 in 9:01.64.

>> Field MVP was N.C. State’s Jirah Sidberry, who won the long jump at 20-8.50/6.31m.

 >> Rebecca Mammel led a 1-2-4 finish for Virginia Tech in the weight, throwing 76-5/23.29m.

>> N.C. State’s Kelsey Chmiel and Sydney Seymour went 1-2 in Thursday’s 5,000, clocking 15:55.54 and 15:57.18.

ACC men: Louisville’s Miller No. 2 in world in 200

One Louisville sprinter, Miller, and a Clemson collection made statements.

Miller, a transfer from Florida, was .01 off the ACC record of 20.26. That has been held since 2000 by Clemson’s Shawn Crawford, the 2004 Olympic champion. Miller’s 20.27 was a meet record and ranks 13th on the all-time collegiate list.

“It does not get better than that. This is the most fun I’ve had in a while,” he said.

He ranks No. 2 globally this year behind an altitude-aided 20.20 by Alabama’s Tarsas Orogot, a Ugandan who clocked that Feb. 10 at Albuquerque, N.M. The NCAAs will be at Albuquerque in two weeks.

Miller is the son of Cardinals sprint coach Tony Miller, although the son said it was a combination of things that influenced him to transfer to Louisville.

Virginia Tech scored 110.5 points to 76 for runner-up Florida State. Clemson was third with 74.5.

Clemson announced in November 2020 it would drop men’s track. The university relented months later after settling a Title IX case.

“We’re trying to build it back up, basically,” said track MVP Wanya McCoy, a 19-year-old freshman from the Bahamas.

McCoy won the 400 in 45.91 and was fifth in the 200 in 20.86.

Another Clemson champion – after a five-year reign by Florida State hurdler Trey Cunningham – was Giano Roberts in 7.65. He didn’t realize N.C. State’s Cameron Murray, ranked fourth in the NCAA at 7.62, had struck a hurdle and failed to finish.

“There may be a lot going on around you like a hurricane,” Roberts said. “Focus straight ahead like tunnel vision.”

Elsewhere in men’s events:

>> Florida State’s Ismail Kone won the 60 in 6.57, compared to his NCAA No. 2 time of 6.51. “Honestly, I had a bad start. But somehow, I ended up getting the win,” said the Ivory Coast sprinter. “Just executed my race. You can’t panic.”

>>  Florida State’s Jeremiah Davis, the ACC’s only double winner, was field MVP. He triple jumped 53-8.25/16.36m Saturday after long jumping 26-3.75/8.02m Friday.

>> North Carolina sophomore Ethan Strand set a meet record of 7:46.48 in the 3,000, overtaking teammate Parker Wolfe with a closing 200 of 26.66. Wolfe was second in 7:48.93. Virginia Tech’s Antonio Lopez Segura, who ran a  3:56.51 anchor to win the DMR, was third in 7:51.52.

>> Another Tar Heel, Jesse Hunt, ran the final 200 in 27.12 to win the mile in 3:58.46.

>> Syracuse’s Paul O’Donnell won Thursday’s 5,000 in 13:50.94 out of the slow section. Notre Dame freshman Ethan Coleman – a 4:06/8:49 high schooler – was second in 13:52.09, also out of the first section. Notre Dame sophomore Carter Solomon ran the closing 200 in 27.64 to win the second section in 14:00.42 for sixth overall. Wolfe, after a 13:19.73 on Dec. 3., was second in that section in 14:02.97 for eighth.

Contact David Woods at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @DavidWoods007.



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