Collegiate Record: Tuohy Takes Down Indoor Mile Best

Jenny Barringer (now Simpson) set five collegiate records in 2009 during her Bowerman-winning year.

Of those she set indoors, just the mile remained. Well, that changed on Saturday.

Katelyn Tuohy, competing at the Dr. Sander Invitational/Columbia Challenge in New York, finished third in the Women’s Invitational Mile in 4:24.26. That took more than one second off Barringer’s best of 4:25.91 from 14 years ago. No one else had come within one second of Barringer’s mark since Elinor Purrier in 2018.

Back in December, Tuohy became the ninth-fastest collegiate woman over 5000 meters indoors when she covered the distance in 15:15.92 at the Sharon Colyer-Danville Season Opener in Boston.

And just two weeks before that, Tuohy stormed to the individual title at the 2022 NCAA DI Cross Country Championships in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The NC State phenom trailed Parker Valby of Florida with less than 1k to go, but found another gear and won by more than three seconds.