Nine Husky Milers Go Sub-Four As Green Sets Record

Saturday, January 18

Seattle, WA

10:30 AM

University of Washington

Mile City

January 18, 2025 | Track & Field

By: UW Athletic Communications

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SEATTLE – Washington's milers continue to raise the bar, and lower records. After turning heads two years ago with eight men going under the four-minute mile barrier in the same race, the Huskies outdid themselves by one today, as nine Dawgs broke the mark in what will be the new standard for dominance and depth in the famed event.

The feat came at UW's aptly-named Mile City event, with a total of 48 straight heats of the mile, featuring runners of all ages, from under ten to over sixty, all competing on the purple oval in the Dempsey Indoor.

The hundreds of milers on hand got to watch the fastest mile the building has ever seen, as Washington senior national champion Nathan Green broke the UW and Dempsey records, clocking a time of 3:50.74. That broke former teammate and 2023 and 2024 NCAA Mile Champion Luke Houser's record of 3:51.73, and was two seconds faster than Green's old PR.

It's the fastest mile time in the world so far this year, the fourth-fastest time in collegiate history, and ranks Green eighth in American indoor history.

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The Husky women also saw some outstanding mile times from Mia Cochran and Claire Yerby in the fastest women's heat. Cochran, who just joined the team two weeks ago from Arkansas, went to No. 8 in school history with a PR run of 4:33.52. Yerby, in her first year at UW after transferring from Cal, cut nearly seven seconds off her PR with a time of 4:35.99.

"To break our own record and have nine men run under four minutes today is really hard to put into words," said Head Coach Andy Powell. "No one has ever done this before with so many men under the mark in the same meet. It's really historic.

"Nathan continues to just operate at the highest level and he does everything you could ask and is the leader of this group, so that was an awesome run by him," said Powell. "But it was a big breakthrough for Ronan, and Cole and Leo, and we had Thom Diamond and Jamar Distel getting their first sub-fours, so this was a huge team effort.

"The whole Mile City meet was a huge success and we want it to become bigger and better and have everyone trying to break their own records, whatever they might be," said Powell.

Not to be overshadowed was another incredible time posted by Ronan McMahon-Staggs, who was third overall and second among collegians in 3:51.85. That was nearly a three-second PR and moves McMahon-Staggs to third in UW history, and sixth-fastest in NCAA history. With the PRs of Houser (3:51.73 from 2024) and Joe Waskom (3:51.90 from 2023) the Huskies now have four of the seven-fastest miles in NCAA history.

Out of the nine Huskies who broke the four-minute barrier today, two did it for the first time in their careers: junior Jamar Distel (3:59.32) and sophomore Thom Diamond (3:58.46). Three more transfers had broken the mark previously at different schools, but all set new PRs in their first time doing it as Dawgs: Cole Lindhorst (3:55.04), Rhys Hammond (3:58.15), and Acer Iverson (3:58.23).

The new additions to the UW Sub-Four Club bring the total men to do it to 26. Twenty of those 26 have come under current Head Coach Andy Powell just since 2019.

After this thrilling opening two days in the Dempsey, the Huskies will be off next week before hosting the UW Invitational on Jan. 31-Feb. 1.

Washington Sub-Four-Minute Milers