Katelyn Tuohy (born March 18, 2002) is an American middle- and

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. She is a four-time

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champion (

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outdoor and indoor, and cross country). By the 2019 cross country season, Tuohy had won five

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and was the 2018 ''

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'' High School Girls Athlete Of The Year.

Early life

Katelyn Tuohy comes from suburban

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. At only ten years old, while running with her parents, Patrick and Denise, she was spotted as a potentially remarkable talent by her coach-to-be, Brian Diglio. She has a brother Patrick, two years older, who was also a successful cross country runner while competing for North Rockland High School. He now runs track at Fordham University. Their brother Ryan is six years younger than Katelyn.High School phenom smashes records while coach tries to keep pressure off
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'', John A. Kissane, November 16, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2018.

Competition

Encouraged by her family, she began setting age-group records in the 7th grade, retiring marks set by earlier high school phenom Mary Cain. In 2018, Tuohy's remarkable potential had fostered New York Times speculation on her future. Diglio, who is also her

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U.S. History teacher, has endeavored to keep Tuohy in check while guarding her progress. “My role so far has been to try to put the brakes on, so she doesn’t do too much,” he said. “She has an unbelievable work ethic; I’ve never seen anything like it." He feels her academic diligence is as important as her athletic accomplishments. She finished the 2017–18 school year with a 4.59 GPA.

2017

Tuohy first took 32 seconds off the historic Van Cortlandt Park course record, during the Manhattan College XC Invite, in the

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, with 13:21 for the 2.5 mile/4 kilometer event. Then she won the Nike National cross country championship as a sophomore, to cap an undefeated season. With a 5000 meter time of 16:44.7, she won by 40 seconds, trimming 12 seconds off the course record, despite cold and muddy conditions. The Rockland County legislature honored her victory, declaring December 19 as "Katelyn Tuohy Day." Tuohy competed for the

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Red Raiders. She became the fastest US outdoor high school 3200-meter girl runner of all-time, running 9:47.88.

2018

On January 20, Tuohy also set the U.S. national

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and high school indoor 5000-meter record, when she ran 15:37.12. In May, she became the fastest US outdoor high school 3200-meter runner of all-time, running 9:47.88. Her 9:09.71 for 3000 meters, run in June, was the second fastest U.S. outdoors time ever in the country by a high school girl.Track: Katelyn Tuohy breaks girls U.S. high school record in mile; Ursuline DMR champs
''Rockland/Westchester Journal News'', Nancy Haggerty, June 19, 2018. On June 17, 2018, at the New Balance Outdoor Nationals T&F Championships in

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, Tuohy won the mile by over 15 seconds, breaking

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's 36-year high school outdoor mile record with a 4:33.87. On September 22, at the Ocean State Invitational, Tuohy ran the fastest American girls cross country 5K ever with a time of 16:06.87, lowering the course record by 88 seconds, and leading her team to victory. Her time clipped almost 17 seconds from

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's 2016 best-ever high school girls' standard on any course, running faster than all but one of over 1000 high school boys running the sandy course that day.Tuohy runs national-record race, her time second to only one boy out of 1,000-plus
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'', Nancy Haggerty, September 22, 2018. Retrieved September 25, 2018. On October 19, her 16:45.4 broke her own Bowdoin course record, set in 2017 while winning the state federation championship. The next fastest girl ran 19:07.9. On November 23, she won the 5K New York State XC Championship/Nike NY Regionals, in 17:14.0, by over 40 seconds.GIRLS NEW YORK CHAMPIONSHIP 5K XC – NXR NEW YORK REGIONAL 2018
''Runnerspace'', November 23, 2018. Retrieved November 25, 2018. On December 1, despite her missing her state section championship race with knee tendonitis, a few weeks earlier, she repeated as Nike's Cross Nationals Individual Champion. Notwithstanding muddy conditions, she set a new course record time of 16:37.8.

2019

On January 26, in

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(NYC), while finishing third in the 3000, against seven pros, she broke Mary Cain's high school indoor record with 9:01.81. That gave her four of the fastest eight ever indoor times by a high school girl for the distance. On March 10, also in NYC, competing in the New Balance Indoor Two Mile, her 9:51.05 for first place made her the second fastest ever U.S. high school girl, indoors or outdoors. She also ran 2:48.77 for 1000 meters, indoors. Consideration was given to have her competing exclusively in open competition, rather than in high school events. It was thought that experiencing stiffer competition from professional runners might be expected to benefit her regarding the possibility of Olympic Trials training to follow in 2020. Despite feeling ill, on June 7 she repeated her 2018 state 3000 meter title with a 9:21.9, 15 seconds in front of Chmeil. Due to her academic workload, allergies and an intense track schedule, Tuohy, conferring with her family and coaches, chose to end her outdoor season in early June, and anticipated returning to competition at cross-country in the fall. In her first major race of the season, Tuohy won the Great American Cross Country race in North Carolina, 13 seconds under the course record. On October 12, she won the Manhattan College Cross-Country Invitational elite Eastern States race in 13:33.2 on the 2.5-mile Van Cortlandt Park loop, missing her course record but winning by 12 seconds. On November 16, Tuohy won her third consecutive New York State cross country championship in 15:36.5 on a course that was snowy and slushy in parts. On November 29, she repeated as the Nike New York Regional qualifier, running 17:06.6 on the Bowdoin course, more than 20 seconds in front of runner-up Claire Walters. On December 7, Tuohy became the first athlete, boy or girl, to become a three-time NXN champion. She won the race in 17:18.4. This was the closest margin of victory for not only Tuohy but in NXN history.

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's racewalking U-20 record holder Taylor Ewert finished second in 17:19.1, and Sydney Thorvaldson of

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was third in 17.19.4. Ewert and Thorvaldson had closed a substantial late-race gap on the chilly and muddy course.GIRLS RACE - WEBCAST REPLAY - NIKE CROSS NATIONALS 2019
'' RunnerSpace.com'', December 7, 2019. Retrieved December 8, 2019.Cross-country: Tuohy, feet and legs numb, holds on for record 3rd Nike Cross Nationals title
'' Rockland Journal News'', Nancy Haggerty, December 8, 2019. After her last high school race, Tuohy underwent knee surgery.

College Career

Tuohy entered

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as a freshman in 2020. She missed most of the fall season with an injury, but she made her

debut in February 2021 at the Carmel City Invitational.

2021

In her first year at

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, Katelyn raced once during the cross country season in the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, placing 24th with a time of 20:41.3. She was the top freshman finisher in 2020 (the meet took place in March 2021) and the only freshman to achieve All-American status. NC State placed second. Tuohy won an individual title at the Adidas XC Challenge. She won the 5k in a time of 16:29.6. This earned her the ACC Performer of the Week honors. During the regional meet, she earned All-Region honors by placing second-place with a time of 20:06.2 at the regional meet. Katelyn bettered on her 2020* performance by placing 15th at the

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with a time of 19:43.0. She helped NC State take home the team title. She once again was selected as an All-American.

2022

Tuohy won the

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1500 meter in 4:06.84, the nation's 2022 leading time, and finished second in the 5000 m hours later. Her 2022 best times, including a 15:14.61 for 5000 meters, ranked respectively as the eighth and seventh fastest ever for collegians. On June 11, Katelyn won the NCAA 5000 m outdoor title in 15:18.39. Two weeks after soundly beating 2020 NCAA XC Champ Mercy Chelangat at Notre Dame, Tuohy won Wisconsin's Nuttycombe 6K cross country invitational in 19:44.3, leading her NC State team to a tiebreaker win over the second ranked

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. On October 28, she won the 2022 ACC Cross Country Championships with a new course record of 19:08 (for 6K) and helped her team win the team championship title. On November 19, at the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, Tuohy came from more than 11 seconds back to overtake Florida's Parker Valby at around the five kilometer mark, and ended up winning the women's individual championship. This also helped propel NC State to the 2022 women's team crown. Afterward, she signed an NIL deal with

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Running.

2023

Tuohy opened the 2023 season on January 28 by breaking the NCAA record in the women’s indoor mile by finishing third in 4:24.26 at the Dr. Sander Invitational Columbia Challenge. She beat the previous record (4:25.91) set by

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(then Barringer) in 2009. On February 11 at the

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in New York, she set a new NCAA indoor 3000 m record with a time of 8:35.20, smashing

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’ previous collegiate best of 8:41.60.

Achievements

NCAA titles

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** 6 km XC:

Collegiate achievements

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indoor – 4:06.49 NCAA record :*

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indoor – 4:24.26 NCAA record :*

indoor – 8:35.20 NCAA record :*

indoor U20 – 8:54.17

High school achievements

High school national records: *

– 4:33.87 (

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2018) **

indoor – 9:01.81 (

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2019) * 3200 meters – 9:47.88 (

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2018) **

indoor – 15:37.12 (

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2018)

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champion: 2017, 2018, 2019

Honors and awards

* Gatorade Female Athlete of the Year: 2018 * Gatorade Female XC Athlete of the Year: 2018, 2019, 2020 * Gatorade Female Track Athlete of the Year: 2018 During her sophomore year in 2017–2018, Tuohy won both the Gatorade Female Cross Country Player of the Year award and the Gatorade Female Track & Field Player of the Year award, making her the first athlete ever to capture the award in two sports, then she won the overall Gatorade Female Athlete of the Year award. Her photo was on the cover of ''Sports Illustrated'' that summer. In October 2018, she was honored as the

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High School Girls Athlete Of The Year. In 2019, she repeated as the Gatorade female cross country awardee for her undefeated 2018 season.Accolades Continue to Pile up for High School Record-Breaker Katelyn Tuohy – Juggling high-level training with a tough course load, she just won her fourth Gatorade award
Sarah Lorge Butler, February 7, 2019. Retrieved February 8, 2019. Track and Field News named her as 2019's repeat "Indoor Girls Athlete of the Year". After winning the Nike Girls Cross Country Championships in Portland, Oregon, in 2019, she was again named the Gatorade Player of the Year, matching track star and future Olympian,

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as the only other such three-peat winner. The Gatorade award also factors in academic performance. In her originating high school district, the North Rockland Chamber of Commerce awarded Touhy with the first annual Student of the Year award. Tuohy is an A student, destined for North Carolina State University.Tuohy Gatorade XC Runner of the Year for 3rd time
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'', February 6, 2020. Retrieved February 13, 2020.

References

External links

NC State bio

Video of Katelyn Tuohy National Record 3200m 9:47.88

Video Katelyn Tuohy National Record 5000m 15:37.12

Video Katelyn Tuohy breaks national HS mile record 4:33.87

Video 2017 NXN Nationals Girls Race

Video 2018 NXN Nationals Girls Race

Video 2019 NXN Nationals Girls Race
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