Just to add to what was said in the video...Katelyn had surgery for a knee injury (sustained while in high school) in the summer immediately after finishing high school in June 2020. After the surgery, she was not able to start running/training again until about 6 or 7 months later, in early 2021. For essentially the first year to 1.5 years at NC State, she was fully recovering from that injury and getting back to peak form. She ran the fall 2021 XC season with a minor nagging injury. It wasn’t until spring 2022 that we saw the "real" Tuohy, finally fully healthy and nearing peak form.
Let's hope she will remain injury free and continue to demolish longstanding previous running records. As far as I know she continues to be a straight "A" student also!
The entire family is incredibly talented. I remember in a middle school modified track meet, the best kid on on our team got lapped in the mile by a short blond kid. Only recently did I find out it was Ryan Tuohy.
Ha, he’s in my county and currently runs low 9:30s in the 2 mile as a freshman. Crazy thing is there’s another freshman on his team that runs a 4:24 mile.
@@sgunther29 talent runs in the family, freshman Ryan Tuohy won XC sectionals vs 15:12-15:30 5k senior runners .. the last time a freshman won sectionals, the name was Katelyn Tuohy.
Well it was faster than the mile split OF the world record DMR but the rest of Tuohys team went slow so she had a lot of work to do! Also faster than the collegiate record (which also belongs to Tuohy), so pretty fast but not quite a record in its own right.
@@animedudeperson2699 valby's legs were buckling at the hill when KT overtook the lead. #hillspaythebills bad news, next year, the course has more hills!
I got hooked on watching her a couple of months ago. I love her style of running as it looks effortless. When I was young I dreamed her dream! A great future for this amazing young athlete. 🇦🇺
katelyn's time at Holmdel NJ (state/MoC course) might never be broken. The time, 16:21, is utterly incredible. Beat the course record by 67 seconds. It's a tough course and a 16:21 for the boys race would be a competitive time. Generational talent!
Fantastic video to summarize all she's done up to now. An amazing talent. It's incredibly rare to see this. Usually H.S. talents fade in college. Katelyn is just getting better and better.
So very good to all of this - both Ms Tuohy and the entire fields of young, public and prep school students competing in this sport. As I ran in the early 1970s there were few woman high schoolers on x/c teams. We were semi-oddball guys in a loner sport mostly unseen - but noble. I loved it and two mile track. Keep it up youths. Strive to persevere.
Real privilege to watch Katelyn deliver time after time. That takes great strength of mind as well as relentless conditioning. The cherry on top? Her team orientation.
The idea that KT will qualfy as the greatest collegian is likely true, But I think about the missed opportunities of Mary Decker Slaney and Mary Cain, both of whom I still hurt for.
I've been keeping an eye on this wonderful young lady since she was in 7th grade. It's a tremendous joy and privilege to have her down here with us now.
Hey that was GREAT! Very uplifting and also inspiring summary of Princess Kate's (if I may coin a phrase) ascendence. KT is already US collegiate all-time royalty, but will she achieve monarchial rank? I say if she breaks Simpson's 3:59 outdoor 1500 record, and Simpson's outdoor 5000 mark, and breaks 15:00 she will be the Queen of NCAA middle distance track, all time. I admit, I haven't gone back to research Mary Decker Slaney's times. I can't think of anybody else who might have a legitimate claim on the crown.Anyhow, great vid and keep up the good work!
Her last track nationals was a disaster with poor tactics, a bit of arrogance and loss of mental focus when she was expected to do the double as clear favourite with ease. It will be interesting to see if she and her coach have learnt that nothing matters but the medal
I think her DMR leg was the best thing she did this year. It really forced her to go full out after a season of training and she ended up running the fastest ever female DMR leg ever. I agree that she will need to improve, but she's already amazing and has such a great attitude.
Hi Daniel. I too am a huge KT fan and have followed her career since her High School races. But the US audience don't seem to understand her current level of ability Vs the rest of the world. College/University level isn't even a thing internationally. I think, as long as KT continues to improve, that she will hit her peak around the 2028 Olympics. Probably at 10,000m Track. But earlier in Cross-country, as long as the US College system doesn't burn her out by excessive demands to compete. (Making her race in 3 or 4 races at a Meet is NOT good for a middle/long distance runner) Also, asking her to peak in CC plus Indoor and also Outdoor, each year, takes a huge toll on the body. Middle distance runners don't peak (generally) until around 26-32. She's only 21 so has time. So if she gets through College without burning out, then manages normal "Life" situations well (eg Relationships, Career aspirations, Marriage?? Children?? etc) then we will see if she has real Champion status. I believe she can do it. Cheers.
I know you guys have a strong college/Uni scene, but it's a real step up to the world scene. I know she's just turned 21 and I'm surprised she hasn't already featured in international events like Diamond League for example. At 21 (2014), Laura Muir had run 4:00 for a new UK national 1500 record, tho possibly this girl looks like a longer distance runner at heart.
@@juliusdavies2005 We have an extremely bizarre "amateur" athletics system in the US. The NCAA, the college/uni governing body, and USATF have ensured that top athletes don't compete in professional events like the Diamond League, which keeps them subservient to them or else forces them to go pro early. Since Tuohy or any of the other young athletes like her cannot have access to top notch professional team resources, our runners tend to have a slower upward trajectory towards global success. Tuohy will likely have one more year at NC State, but if she dominates the NCAA outdoors this year and puts up vastly improved times in the 1500/5000, she may just leave early since it appears she will have finished most of her undergraduate studies by the end of this year. As for distance, she did just set the NCAA Women's record for the indoor mile, so it's hard to tell if she will stop focusing on the 1500m when she goes pro.
My understanding is that women who go through puberty temporarily lose advantage... If they don't they lose bones and lose capicity in the long run... Is it possible that the coronavirus break gave Tuoghy an uninterupted adantage?
She's very good but not (yet) as great as Americans seem to think she is. She's ranked 24th in the world in the 3000-5000m range - there are at least 4 women who are younger than Tuohy and faster (including the excellent Ethiopians Eisa and Wudu) and several more of a similar age.
Big fan of nearly all of these high-level athletes. You have to hand it to PV for dominating the field for so long and still finishing a strong 2nd for both of the races. She understands tempo strategy and shows excellent tactics for lead-runner skills. I will take nothing away from her elite performances and hope that the two drive each other to even better PR's.
More old reporting. This is not the first story on the rise of Katelyn Tuohy. Unless you have 600K supporter bas, you won't make any money on reporting old news.
I would not want to make athletes run X-Country at some of the locations and times of year that Summer Olympics have taken place. Top runners tend to skip the Olympic Marathon because running a marathon in August is just asking for a career-ending injury from heatstroke or dehydration, and if you add the hard surfaces that you'd get on dry fields at that time of year in X-Country then it should be obvious why they don't do it. There should be a Fall Olympics for sports that can't be safely competed in high summer but also don't need snow and ice: X-Country and cyclocross are the two that come to my mind, but there are a few sports that should be moved from summer to fall. The Summer Olympics host city could easily run a second event in November after the main games - stay in the Olympic Village, move some of the events from the Summer games where summer is really too hot and dry (like the Marathon, the walks, the triathlon, the mountain biking, the outdoor swimming, the rugby sevens, the equestrian events, the modern pentathlon, possibly the sailing as well) and you'd ease some of the congestion from the big summer games, make it easier to have more athletes attend (the main restriction on the number of Olympians is the Olympic village; by reusing it for Fall, you get to use each room twice). The smaller Fall Olympics could be combined with a Fall Paralympics (rather than having them separate as in the summer) - integrating para-sports with able-bodied sports works great in the Winter. I thought about spring, but the danger is that facilities are still under construction for the (perceived to be "main") Summer Olympics at that point and you're just bringing athletes into a construction site.