{"id":5187,"date":"2020-06-09T11:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=5187"},"modified":"2020-06-09T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:22:19","slug":"two-5000m-meet-records-at-new-balance-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=5187","title":{"rendered":"Two 5,000m Meet Records at New Balance Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"
FRAZIER, LEINGANG SET 5000M RECORDS <\/div>\n
ON DAY ONE AT NEW BALANCE NATIONALS<\/div>\n

By Chris Lotsbom<\/p>\n

(c) Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved<\/div>\n
(Used with permission)\n<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
GREENSBORO,
\nN.C. (14-June) — The first day of New Balance Nationals Outdoors here,
\nthe American national championships for<\/div>\n
high school athletics, ended
\nwith remarkable record runs over 5000m by North Carolina’s Wesley
\nFrazier and North Dakota’s Jake Leingang. Both seniors timed meet
\nrecords of 15:55.94 and 14:11.61, respectively. Frazier’s national
\ntitle –her fourth at the meet in the past two years– makes her one of
\nthe most decorated athletes in high school athletics history.<\/div>\n

\nUnder
\nthe lights of North Carolina A&T’s Aggie Stadium, Frazier became
\nthe first girl in meet history to break 16 minutes for 5000m in what
\nplayed out to be a hunter\/hunted race. While West Bloomfield, Mich.’s
\nErin Finn took the pace out blisteringly fast –much like she did at
\nNew Balance Nationals Indoors three months ago– Frazier decided to
\nhold back and let her go, taking on the hunter role.<\/p>\n

“I felt
\nthe pace was kind of fast at the beginning, too fast,” said the smiling
\nFrazier, holding a piece of the finishing tape in her hand. “Through
\nthe first 800 meters I saw about 2:30 on the clock and knew I wasn’t
\ngoing to run five-minute pace so I backed off a little bit.”<\/p>\n

Hitting
\n6:58.81 for 2200 meters, the leading Finn was well ahead of Ashley
\nErba’s meet record pace of 16:18.21. At one point in the first half,
\nFinn held close to a ten meter lead on Frazier.<\/p>\n

Though behind
\nby three seconds at two miles (3218m), Frazier slowly but surely began
\nto reel in the tiring Finn, just as she did at New Balance Nationals
\nIndoors.<\/p>\n

“I just watched where she was,” said Frazier, who came
\nup on Finn’s shoulder at the ten minute mark of the race. “I figured
\nthat if I was feeling good in the last half I’d try to see what I could
\ndo.”<\/p>\n

With just over a kilometer remaining, Frazier made her
\ndecisive move, injecting a 75.27-second lap that dropped Finn
\nimmediately. With that, the national title was hers.<\/p>\n

“It’s
\nalways good to win and run here,” said Frazier, who would break the
\nfinishing tape with hands above her head in 15:55.94. “It’s my last
\nseason in high school, the last chance I get so I might as well make
\nthe best of it.”<\/p>\n

Finn, visibly dejected, finished second in
\n16:17.89. Following the awards ceremony, Finn said that she was
\ndisappointed with her race before excusing herself from the interview
\nwith tears in her eyes.<\/p>\n

Frazier’s winning mark ranks as #5 on
\nthe all-time USA high school list, and was extra special considering
\nAggie Stadium is Frazier’s home track of sorts; the Duke-bound Frazier
\nresides in Raleigh, about 70 miles away.<\/p>\n

Frazier will return to
\nAggie Stadium’s blue track Saturday and Sunday, when she runs the
\nChampionship Two Mile and Mile. She’ll need to do whatever she can to
\nrecover, quickly.<\/p>\n

“I’ll sit on two bags of ice for the ride home,” said Frazier.<\/p>\n

In
\nthe Boys 5000m, reigning champion Jake Leingang successfully defended
\nhis title with a 14:11.61 performance. Taking the lead within the first
\nkilometer, the 18-year-old from North Dakota was able to separate
\nhimself from the chasing field as the race wore on.<\/p>\n

Despite
\nwhat looked to be a loaded field entering the race, no one gave
\nLeingang much of a challenge. The only athlete to follow in his
\nslipstream for part of the race was Illinois’s Jack Keelan.<\/p>\n

“Going
\ninto it I knew some of the guys had run very fast times. I was looking
\nat it just like any other race, that they are going to be with me,”
\nsaid Leingang. Ultimately, he would win with a 17-second cushion,
\nsetting a meet record in the process.<\/p>\n

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“I couldn’t ask for a
\nbetter night under the lights,” said Leingang, who shaved more than 13
\nseconds from Edward Cheserek’s previous meet mark of 14:25.74. “I
\nwanted to take it out and see what I could do. I felt pretty good the
\nwhole race and couldn’t ask for anything better.”<\/p>\n

Ohio’s
\nNicholas Elswick placed second in 14:28.73, with New Balance Nationals
\nIndoor champion Elijah Armstrong third in 14:28.97. Keelan wound up
\nfinishing fourth.<\/p>\n

Friday’s competition was made up of mostly
\nEmerging Elite and Freshman events, with championship sections coming
\nup Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

One performance worth noting came in
\nthe Junior High Girls Mile, where Texan Julia Heymach ran away with the
\nvictory. Her winning time of 5:03.50 is very good considering she is
\nnot even in high school yet.<\/p>\n

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