Meet Record: Simeon Birnbaum (SD), 2023, 3:57.53
Girls Championship Mile
Meet Record: Jane Hedengren (UT), 2025, 4:23.50 – US High School Girls Mile Record; US U20 Girls Mile Record
- The fastest High School Mile in the country!
- We will accept the top 15 entries per gender in the Championship Mile races. The Meet Director may accept at-large entries under extraordinary circumstances.
- Marks must be from the 2026 outdoor track season, beginning March 1, 2026.
- The deadline to enter is Midnight CST on Saturday, May 30. Accepted entries will be announced Sunday, May 31.
- All participants from the High School sections (Championship, Elite, 800 and Missouri) will receive a set of apparel, shoes and spikes from HOKA.
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History of Sub-4 High School Boys at Festival of Miles:
- In 2015, Grant Fisher (MI) became just the seventh HS boy ever to break 4 minutes in the mile.
- In 2017, Reed Brown (TX) bested Fisher’s time running 3:59.30 and became the 9th high schooler to break the 4 minute barrier.
- In 2022, for the first time in U.S. running history, two high schoolers ran sub-4 in the same race with Gary Martin (PA), who had already run sub-4, bettering his PR and Connor Burns (MO), a junior running sub-4 for the first time (15th U.S. high schooler to do so). Burns is the first Missouri runner to break 4 and the first junior since Jim Ryun.
- In 2023, for the first time in U.S. running history, four high schoolers ran sub-4 in the same race with senior Simeon Birnbaum (SD) winning with a 3:57.53 – a new PR and #4 on the US all-time list. Senior Rocky Hansen (NC) bettered his PR running 3:58.23. Senior Tinoda Matsatsa (MD), became the 19th US high schooler to break four and the first Black high schooler to run under 4 minutes. Senior Jackson Heidesch (IA) became the 20th US high schooler to break four.
- In 2024, Drew Griffith (PA) became the 22nd US high school athlete to break four minutes in the mile and the 5th fastest all-time with his 3:57.72.
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In 2025, Quentin Nauman (IA) ran a sub-4 mile for the first time becoming the 25th US High School boy to do so. His 3:58.65 broke the National Junior Boys High School Mile Record which was previously held by Connor Burns who ran his record at Festival of Miles in 2022. This mark was also a US #1 for 2025 at the time. Josiah Tostenson (OR) also ran sub-4 which brings the total tally of high school boys who have run sub-4 at Festival of Miles to 11.
Some of the athletes who have run at Festival of Miles include:
- Jane Hedengren (American HS Record Holder in 9 events)
- Emily Sisson (American Record Holder – Marathon/Half Marathon)
- Grant Fisher (American Record Holder – 5,000m/10,000m)
- Colleen Quigley (NCAA Champion/World Champs Finalist/Olympian)
- Sadie Engelhardt (American HS Outdoor Mile Record Holder)
- Gary Martin (4th Fastest American High School Miler of all time)
- Natalie Cook (American HS Record Holder in the 5,000m)
- Drew Griffith (1600m NFHS Record Holder, American HS Indoor 2 Mile Record Holder)
- Connor Burns (Fastest HS Junior Miler of all time)
- Amos Bartelsmeyer (Olympian)
- Jonathan Davis (Fastest American 1500m of 2022, NCAA All American, 2nd – USA Championships – 1500m)
- Taylor Werner (7 time All American at Arkansas/three-time Foot Locker finalist)
- Stephanie Jenks (3-time Foot Locker Finalist)
- Hannah Long (Stanford/3-time Foot Locker Finalist)
- and many more.