Oklahoma State signee Natalie Cook dinner has persisted her monitor dominance.
With a three,200-meter time of 9:52.45 on the UIL area-round meet on Thursday, the Flower Mound (Texas) celebrity broke a state file for the real 3,200-meter race. She handed the former file of 9:58.58 set by means of Brynn Brown (Denton Guyer) in 2021 by means of a complete six seconds.
Whilst that’s the file for a real 3,200-meter race, the Texas Monitor & Box Coaches Affiliation transformed true two-mile races into 3,200 occasions, so this race technically does no longer reside on the most sensible of the file e-book.
However little need for Cook dinner to worry; she additionally holds the file for two-mile with a time of 9:41:05. In step with the Dallas Morning-Information, that two-mile time used to be set in March and recorded at 9:44:44 and transformed to 9:41:05 for a three,200-meter race.
Nationally, the three,200-meter time set on Thursday ranks No. 4 in historical past. She used to be about four-and-a-half seconds shy of Katelyn Touhy’s 2018 time of 09:47.88
Cook dinner additionally gained the 1,600-meter race on the meet with a time of four:45.86.
The senior has completely ruled this season. Over back-to-back weekends in December, she gained the RunningLane Move Nation and Eastbay nationwide championships, turning into the primary woman to win each in the similar yr, consistent with Runner’s International. She used to be a part of the 4x-mile relay that set a countrywide file in March, and set the second-best 5K time of all time, consistent with MileSplit.
After commencement, Cook dinner will head to Oklahoma State. In an interview with USA TODAY after the Eastbay Championships, she commented at the training personnel.
“They’re development a perfect crew and I like Trainer Dave (Smith) and Trainer Anna (Boyert-Thorp) such a lot. … They need to win nationals and I need to be part of it.”
