Katelyn Tuohy’s 2025 Professional Debut @ Dr Sanders Invitational

UpperState wrote:

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?

Peach Pit wrote:

UpperState wrote:

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.

Not to be take away from her performance, because it was insane, but I think it was Valby that led the field to such a fast time, Tuohy just ran her down in the last km lol

I feel like a lot of people have written her off/forgotten about Tuohy, which is kinda to be expected since she hasn't been in the limelight for a while. Still, I think she'll be one of the best in the US for years to come. It's more than normal for pros to struggle their first year. Hopefully she runs a great race today as the start to a great season.

UpperState wrote:

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?

UpperState wrote:

UpperState wrote:

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