Weak. Not even top 25 on the all time 400m list. Call me when she runs a fast time. (Am I doing this right?).
KT gets attention because she has been a star since sophomore year of high school, just broke 4 NCAA records (three of which were set in 2009), and is easily the top female distance runner in the NCAA. People were curious about her running a 10000m at the conference meet. It is the first 10000m she ever ran. It may be her best distance when all is said and done, and if she comes back Koll's record is in major jeopardy if she focuses on it. People want to focus on the time in a race she was never going to run hard a week after the 5000m record, but what mattered is the extreme ease in which she ran it and the close.
Anyway distance running and sprinting are different sports. High school and college sprinters can run world competitive times and peak earlier. Especially on the female side distance runners don't peak until their mid to late 20s and the WR marks are so far up the EPO zone they are on a different planet than anything a college runner can hope to match. So there is an aura of mystery and projection about how a college distance athlete will progress.
At this point KT should win the Bowerman, but sprinters definitely have an edge if the criteria is world competitive times.