OWEN POWELL - 3:57.74 Mile

Just watched the race. He was practically running in lane 4 through the first two laps before settling into the pace and then found another gear with a lap to go. I chalk it up to not having racing experience against collegians but regardless, this kid seems like the real deal. His form is not great and is scraggly; put him in the gym at a competitive collegiate program and I see this kid flirting with sub 3:50 in a year or two.

Lutkenhaus will beat Powell at 800m of they race. Powell soes not have the 400 speed to be dominant beyond HS in the 800m. Lutkenhaus ran a 47.33 400m out of the blocks in his second race of the day as a ninth grader. He’s run 1:46 indoors and Powell will be lucky to break 1:47 outdoors.

I agree. Lutkenhaus is an off the chart talent. 1:46.8?? Soph??

Not sure why the poster said Powell would beat Lutkenhaus like a drum.

At a mile?? OK...so what?

Who is his HS coach and does he even run for a high school?

His training plan is reportedly made by ChatGPT. He competes for Ontario Athletics club in Saudi Arabia(they are investing in Athletics now).

His coach is Susan Empey and he runs for Mercer Island HS.

https://www.dyestat.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=44531&do=news&news_id=671083

It appears that Powell is a normal aged senior; turns 18 in the year 2025.

No indication of which month his birthday is in.

Except nobody with a brain believes his parents aren’t involved.

Must be the shoes.

I have listened to interviews with Owen and he says his parents are not involved. That seems like an odd thing to be dishonest about.

Let's not do this. We don't need another round of Flatt-vs.-Sumner-esque toxicity.

Actually, he doesn't live in Seattle. He lives on Mercer Island. A very wealthy city right next to Seattle.

the Rodriguez sisters Victoria and Sophia, are teammates.

Owen is running at BU tomorrow night (21 Feb) as is Trayvon Kitchen

Link please? Do you mean the Circuit? I don’t see any info under start lists

Guessing the mile?

Indeed, Owen Powell (3:55.0), Josiah Tostenson (3:59.0), and Tayvon Kitchen (3:59.0) are all in the mile, with the above seed times. It should be a fast race with Sam Tanner seeded at 3:48 and the next best guy at 3:51. Powell has high aspirations after just running 3:57 on a flat 307m track. One thing to note with the BU track is that unlike UW, the inner ring of the track is entirely lined with athletes cheering the runners on, and then there are stands as well, so it is an entirely different atmosphere from UW, where there are no stands and not that many athletes. There should be every opportunity for Powell to improve and Kitchen and Tostenson to go sub-4 for the first time, which would be the first time two athletes from the same high school team ran a sub-4 mile in the same year.

1 Tanner, Sam Puma 3:48.13
2 Lumb, Kieran ON 3:51.89
3 Ernst, AJ Unattached 3:52.81
4 Sharman-Newell, Reece CSU-Pueblo 3:53.54
5 Rahul, Mr. ADP/Team India 3:54.00
6 Malleck, Foster Boston Univ 3:54.20
7 Powell, Owen Unattached 3:55.00
8 Gibson, Eric Unattached 3:55.90
9 Ewing, Joe Harvard 3:56.50
10 Buizimana, Yusuf Nike 3:57.00
11 Idhammar, Viktor Virginia Tech 3:57.76
12 Saiki, Masato Chuo Univ 3:58.00
13 Morita, Keisuke SUBARU 3:58.00
14 Okada, Kaisei Fujisanno Meisui 3:58.00
15 Shannon, Mark Unattached 3:58.20
16 Ward, Noah Harvard 3:58.50
17 Tostenson, Josiah Unattached 3:59.00
18 Kitchen, Tayvon Unattached 3:59.00

[VISUALIZER] Owen Powell races Luckenhouse:

*gun goes off

*coop gets a good start

*they come through in 53 seconds

*Running fast
*Owen Powell starts running faster

*100m to go

Owen: “You’re fast but not fast enough”

*Owen starts coming really fast

*Owen hits an insane celly across the line and Wins in 1:45

Powell ended up running a new high school indoor record of 3:56.66. Tostenson ran 3:57.47 and Kitchen ran 3:59.61 to become the first high school teammates under 4. Newbury Park had five guys of approximately equal ability who overlapped and two of those guys ran sub-4 or sub-4 equivalent. Colin Sahlman, a national xc winner and 3:56 miler, Leo Young, 3:38 or 3:39, plus 16th at World Jr xc), Aaron Sahlman won NXN and ran 4:01/8:03, Lex Young ran 7:57 and an NHSR 13:34, and Nico Young won two national xc titles and 7:56.97 NHSR before COVID shut the season mostly down. However, they never had two sub-4 milers and didn't get there in a single season, as Lex and Leo Young and Aaron Sahlman fell short the year of Colin Sahlman's 3:56. So, you can debate whether Tayvon Kitchen and Josiah Tostenson are a better duo than any pair of the five top Newbury Park guys, but two sub-4s is something NP never did.