Sugie and Sheets Shine; Records fall in Nashville
This past weekend, Kentucky's athletes descended to the Norton Learning Center in Louisville, Kentucky to compete in the KTCCCA President's Day Weekend Invite. We saw incredible performances throughout that meet which can be viewed at the following link President's Day Classic.
However, a couple of our athletes ventured to Nashville, Tennessee to run against some College athletes at the Music City Challenge. At this meet, we saw Riku Sugie of Thomas Nelson and Will Sheets of Covington Catholic run the 1 mile and 5000m respectively. Long story short, we got our money's worth.
To begin, Sugie completed the 1 mile race in 4:09.60, the Indoor Mile state record. The previous record was held by Bobby Curtis who ran 4:10.20 back in 2003. This race is also the 5th fastest mile race ran by a Kentucky high schooler across any surface (indoors and outdoors). It is worth noting, Curtis ran 4:10.20 indoors, then followed that up with a 4:07.06 Outdoors, a record which stood until Jacob Thomson bested it in 2013. The current record of 4:06.30 is held by Olympic Bronze Medalist in the 1500m, Yared Nuguse who ran 4:06.30 Outdoors in 2017. If Sugie improves by as much as Curtis did from Indoors to Outdoors, he will have a real shot at challenging that overall mile state record come outdoor season.