Alright, before the haters start attacking. Yes, she had a “not so great” Professional debut year in 2024. But, as most of us know, she was injured. She still showed up and tried (and even ran a 15:07 5,000m, which is close to her previous PR).
With that being said, let’s not forget her collegiate accomplishments, listed here:
Collegiate achievements 1500 meters indoor – 4:06.49+ (New York, NY 2023) NCAA record Mile indoor – 4:24.26 (New York, NY 2023) NCAA record 3000 meters indoor – 8:35.20 (New York, NY 2023) NCAA record 3000 meters indoor U20 – 8:54.18 (Boston, MA 2021) NU20R 5000 meters: 15:03.12 (Walnut, CA 2023) NCAA record
4 NCAA National Titles to her name, and 4 NCAA Records at the time she was in college. The best that has even been in her events she competed in. That’s quite historic (literally).
In addition to all that, when she won NCAA D1 Cross Country in 2023, she also broke the historic course record in Oklahoma and led the entire field to such fast times that nearly 20 women ALSO broke the previous course record. In one race.
Now, since going pro and signing with Adidas, she hasn’t had the greatest start to her professional career.
But she’s been re-building, training, preparing and planning. Now it’s 2025 and she’s making her debut at the Dr Sanders Scorcher Indoor Invitational, and is set to run the Indoor Mile in just about an hour from now (to be televised on Peacock).
She has stated during an interview that she would like to qualify for, and run in the USATF Indoor National Championships. To qualify for that, she would have to run under 4:27:00 today. Looks like Sam Bush is in the field to pace out the first 800m in 2:11 (Elly Henes is in the field as well).
Tuohy is not going to show up after this hiatus and re-build if she isn’t ready to run very, very fast.
Alicia Monson has the meet record in the Dr Sanders Invitationa Mile of 4:23.55 (set in 2023). Could it go down in Tuohy’s 2025 debut?
So it’d be a tall order, but here are the top-10 miles ever run by an American woman:
1 4:16.35 Nikki HILTZ 23 OCT 1994 USA 6 Stade Louis II, Monaco (MON) 21 JUL 2023 1220 2 4:16.41 Elle ST. PIERRE 20 FEB 1995 USA 1 Armory Track&Field Center, New York, NY (USA) (i) 11 FEB 2024 1249 3 4:16.47 Elise CRANNY 09 MAY 1996 USA 8 Stade Louis II, Monaco (MON) 21 JUL 2023 1219 4 4:16.71 Mary SLANEY 04 AUG 1958 USA 1 Letzigrund, Zürich (SUI) 21 AUG 1985 1217 5 4:17.30 Jenny SIMPSON 23 AUG 1986 USA 4 Olympic Stadium, London (GBR) 22 JUL 2018 1213 6 4:18.11 Cory Ann MCGEE 29 MAY 1992 USA 2 Bislett Stadion, Oslo (NOR) 15 JUN 2023 1207 7 4:19.89 Sage HURTA-KLECKER 23 JUN 1998 USA 2 Meredith College, Raleigh, NC (USA) 02 AUG 2024 1193 8 4:20.34 Shannon ROWBURY 19 SEP 1984 USA 3 Rieti (ITA) 07 SEP 2008 1190 9 4:20.41 Heather MACLEAN 31 AUG 1995 USA 3 Meredith College, Raleigh, NC (USA) 02 AUG 2024 1189 10 4:20.70 Kate GRACE 24 OCT 1988 USA 8 Olympic Stadium, London (GBR) 22 JUL 2018 1187
god I love it when people just copy paste world athletic tables into a forum post with absolutely no formatting so we get 11 lines of text where there should only be 1 and it's hardly even readable
PLEASE for the love of god, either say "To break into the top 10 she'd need to beat Kate Grace's 4:20.70", or just post the link you're getting the results from so I can click on it and see it nicely formatted for myself. Or do what I do and take the 2 minutes to get rid of the useless information (birthdays, dates ran, WA points, place) and put it onto one line. You could even copy paste it into ChatGPT and ask it to format it for you nicely and then just copy paste what it gives you.
So it’d be a tall order, but here are the top-10 miles ever run by an American woman:
1 4:16.35 Nikki HILTZ 23 OCT 1994 USA 6 Stade Louis II, Monaco (MON) 21 JUL 2023 1220 2 4:16.41 Elle ST. PIERRE 20 FEB 1995 USA 1 Armory Track&Field Center, New York, NY (USA) (i) 11 FEB 2024 1249 3 4:16.47 Elise CRANNY 09 MAY 1996 USA 8 Stade Louis II, Monaco (MON) 21 JUL 2023 1219 4 4:16.71 Mary SLANEY 04 AUG 1958 USA 1 Letzigrund, Zürich (SUI) 21 AUG 1985 1217 5 4:17.30 Jenny SIMPSON 23 AUG 1986 USA 4 Olympic Stadium, London (GBR) 22 JUL 2018 1213 6 4:18.11 Cory Ann MCGEE 29 MAY 1992 USA 2 Bislett Stadion, Oslo (NOR) 15 JUN 2023 1207 7 4:19.89 Sage HURTA-KLECKER 23 JUN 1998 USA 2 Meredith College, Raleigh, NC (USA) 02 AUG 2024 1193 8 4:20.34 Shannon ROWBURY 19 SEP 1984 USA 3 Rieti (ITA) 07 SEP 2008 1190 9 4:20.41 Heather MACLEAN 31 AUG 1995 USA 3 Meredith College, Raleigh, NC (USA) 02 AUG 2024 1189 10 4:20.70 Kate GRACE 24 OCT 1988 USA 8 Olympic Stadium, London (GBR) 22 JUL 2018 1187
god I love it when people just copy paste world athletic tables into a forum post with absolutely no formatting so we get 11 lines of text where there should only be 1 and it's hardly even readable
PLEASE for the love of god, either say "To break into the top 10 she'd need to beat Kate Grace's 4:20.70", or just post the link you're getting the results from so I can click on it and see it nicely formatted for myself. Or do what I do and take the 2 minutes to get rid of the useless information (birthdays, dates ran, WA points, place) and put it onto one line. You could even copy paste it into ChatGPT and ask it to format it for you nicely and then just copy paste what it gives you.
Feel free to re-format it. Instead of just complaining. You’re more than welcome to. Thanks for pointing out flaws.
Feel free to re-format it. Instead of just complaining. You’re more than welcome to. Thanks for pointing out flaws.
I always format it in my own posts. I'd rather you post nothing at all than 100 lines with 90% of them worthless (or in your case, 99%, since only the lines 10th, Kate Grace, and 4:20.70 mattered to what you were saying), and it makes scrolling through a thread much more difficult. You're not the only offender, it's super common, I just happened to decide after reading yours that every time in the future that I see it, I'm going to ask people to do better. Literally it takes almost no effort to do, and me reformatting your post won't get rid of the absolute trash that you already posted.
Something my dad taught me when I was like 10 was that it's better to be concise with the minimal amount of information to get your point across, than to include tons of superfluous information, because people's eyes will just glaze over and they won't read it. Just trying to pass that wisdom on <3
Feel free to re-format it. Instead of just complaining. You’re more than welcome to. Thanks for pointing out flaws.
I always format it in my own posts. I'd rather you post nothing at all than 100 lines with 90% of them worthless (or in your case, 99%, since only the lines 10th, Kate Grace, and 4:20.70 mattered to what you were saying), and it makes scrolling through a thread much more difficult. You're not the only offender, it's super common, I just happened to decide after reading yours that every time in the future that I see it, I'm going to ask people to do better. Literally it takes almost no effort to do, and me reformatting your post won't get rid of the absolute trash that you already posted.
Something my dad taught me when I was like 10 was that it's better to be concise with the minimal amount of information to get your point across, than to include tons of superfluous information, because people's eyes will just glaze over and they won't read it. Just trying to pass that wisdom on <3
Not even sure why you’re wasting your time explaining how good you are at formatting YOUR posts.
But good for you! *high-five* you should be proud!
I always format it in my own posts. I'd rather you post nothing at all than 100 lines with 90% of them worthless (or in your case, 99%, since only the lines 10th, Kate Grace, and 4:20.70 mattered to what you were saying), and it makes scrolling through a thread much more difficult. You're not the only offender, it's super common, I just happened to decide after reading yours that every time in the future that I see it, I'm going to ask people to do better. Literally it takes almost no effort to do, and me reformatting your post won't get rid of the absolute trash that you already posted.
Something my dad taught me when I was like 10 was that it's better to be concise with the minimal amount of information to get your point across, than to include tons of superfluous information, because people's eyes will just glaze over and they won't read it. Just trying to pass that wisdom on <3
Not even sure why you’re wasting your time explaining how good you are at formatting YOUR posts.
But good for you! *high-five* you should be proud!
About 10 minutes away now from the Women 1 Mile Pro-Elite
That’s it. This thread, along with the crybaby posts on the other thread about not understanding how the subject athlete of this thread gets such vitriol are simply farcical.
All the while, this astro dude pretends to not notice, while he, coming off as the subject athlete’s biggest supporter (and quite possibly her acquaintance, if not a family member, ex-coach of hers, etc.) is the chief reason fans have understandably turned against her. Particularly when his accusations are hypocritical, in light of the fact that if you were to ask 10 new fans to the sport, and put said athlete up against another athlete he has repeatedly accused over and over, and asked though fans, just based on appearance, asking which is a PED user, 8 out of 10 would pick said athlete subject of this thread. If you then told those same fans that said athlete pedals sub-3hr marathoner Nick Bare’s chemistry to high school kids, then probably 10 out of 10 of them would say it’s a slam dunk.
That’s it. This thread, along with the crybaby posts on the other thread about not understanding how the subject athlete of this thread gets such vitriol are simply farcical.
All the while, this astro dude pretends to not notice, while he, coming off as the subject athlete’s biggest supporter (and quite possibly her acquaintance, if not a family member, ex-coach of hers, etc.) is the chief reason fans have understandably turned against her. Particularly when his accusations are hypocritical, in light of the fact that if you were to ask 10 new fans to the sport, and put said athlete up against another athlete he has repeatedly accused over and over, and asked though fans, just based on appearance, asking which is a PED user, 8 out of 10 would pick said athlete subject of this thread. If you then told those same fans that said athlete pedals sub-3hr marathoner Nick Bare’s chemistry to high school kids, then probably 10 out of 10 of them would say it’s a slam dunk.
The astro dude just can’t shut up.
I’m fairly certain that no Tuohy fan has “turned against her”.