Katelyn Tuohy Breaks Mary Cain's U.S. High School 3K Record

Katelyn Tuohy Breaks Mary Cain's U.S. High School 3K Record

Katelyn Tuohy ran the fastest indoor 3k in U.S. high school history on Saturday.

Jan 26, 2019 by Lincoln Shryack
Katelyn Tuohy Breaks Mary Cain's U.S. High School 3K Record

16-year-old sensation Katelyn Tuohy of Thiells, New York, has added yet another U.S. high school record to her resumé, this time in the indoor 3,000m. The North Rockland (NY) junior ran 9:01.81 to finish third on Saturday in the Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge women's 3,000m, smashing Mary Cain’s 9:04.51 mark that had stood since 2013.

Tuohy also owns indoor national records in the 2,000m (5:57.56) and 5,000m (15:37.12).

Brooks pro Amanda Eccleston won the race in 8:56.68 with Asics’ Heather Kampf a close second in 8:56.87. Tuohy held the lead as late as the 2,000m split (5:58), under 9:00 pace, but she struggled to hang on from there. While Eccleston and Kampf closed the final 200m in 32 seconds, the two-time NXN champion ran the last lap in 35 seconds, just missing the first sub-9:00 in U.S. high school history, indoor or outdoor.

Former Washington prep star and current Nike pro Alexa Efraimson actually owns the fastest high school 3,000m performance ever of 9:00.16 from 2014, but since the mark was run on the University of Washington’s oversized track, it does not count for indoor record purposes.