Mia Barnett joins Swedish National team

Out of the three schools, she probably liked wearing UCLA's colors the best..

What a great move! Get away from the usatf clutter system with poor management and mismanagement.

Yeah, Sweden better watch out if their coach gets fired. Itll be straight to Finland for Mia. Do Sam McDonnell and Dalia Frias have dual citizenship?

3 colleges, 2 countries, 1 mia

Quite the road trip! Thelma&Louise.

Mia back in the 4:06 range. She's also showing better finishing speed.

Issue of representing another country long settled and now just daily business in football/soccer and for rest of the world in track. Don't know why still a big deal here.

Top times in Sweden in 2024

800m - 2:00.86, 2:00.99, 2:01.32

1500m - 4:04.50, 4:07.68, 4:10.24

5000m - 15:38.14, 15:40.62, 15:45.75

10000m - 33:44.31, 34:24.74, 34:58.18

I think she can pick her event for Worlds this summer

Dude, get out of the ice age people move around until they find their college.

I’d rather compete for a country my family is from, rather than become a trials merchant, and maybe never represent on an international level. Life’s too short to worry about the optics, if you love the game, don’t keep yourself from playing.

Exactly. Business decision that will find her in a major meet one day.

Thanks. She's now at 2:03/4:08, so she will need a nice Swedish summer of improvement.

as a swede i wud add that in sweden he (mondo) is a superstar, prolly the biggest sports star we have rite now (except for maybe alexander isak n zlatan altho he is retired)...

in usa mondo wud barely be known, he wud be another levrone (the 400mh chick) or noah or shacarri. famous to the public every 4th year or so...not in sweden

she is kinda cute, i give her that. maybe i should introduce myself to her.

jokes aside, the swedish article states that she has a swedish connection on her moms side. not that her mom is swedish...

so whats the swedish connection? is her grandma swedish?

welcome to sweden mia!

There are Swedish runners who have sub-15/sub-32 capacity right now, like Sarah Lahti and Meraf Bahta.

The European track season has barely started.

Doesn’t she have to run the standard or be ranked to compete at worlds?

No, you don’t owe anything to the country where you grew up. In a free democracy, it’s an individual’s prerogative.

Mother was born in Sweden and moved to the U.S at 2.

She will have to do more than that...

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