Hoey Runs 1:12.84 To Break Donavan Brazier Record; Hedengren Runs 14:44.79, Nearly Taking World U20 Record

By David Woods for DyeStat

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Remember all those records Josh Hoey and Jane Hedengren broke at the beginning of 2025?

Well, they’re doing so at the end of 2025, too.

Hoey crushed the world indoor record for 600 meters Saturday during the Colyear-Danville Season Opener at Boston University.

Hoey, 26, of Downington, Pa., had a time of 1 minute, 12.84 seconds. He nearly bettered the outdoor world record of 1:12.81 held by Johnny Gray since 1986, and he did exceed the all-time No. 2 of 1:13.10 by Kenya’s David Rudisha from 2016.

Previous world indoor record was 1:13.77 by Donovan Brazier from 2019 at New York.

Hoey’s brother, Jonah, paced  him through an opening 200 meters In 23.60. Josh Hoey hit 23.74 for 200 and 47.63 (a 23.90 lap) for 400. He closed in 25.55. He was nearly three seconds ahead of second place.

Earlier, Jonah Hoey won the 800 in 1:47.01.

Josh Hoey recently changed coaches after a breakthrough year in which he set an American indoor record of 2:14.48 for 1,000 meters on Jan. 18. He went on to win a world indoor title at 800 meters but did not make the U.S. team for the outdoor World Championships.

The day’s other marquee event was the women’s 5,000 meters, won by Hedengren in 14:44.79, an absolute collegiate record. Moreover, she nearly broke the under-20 world indoor record of 14:42.94 set by Ethiopia’s Semayet Getachew on Jan. 27, 2024, at BU.

Hedengren, 19, a BYU freshman from Provo, Utah, broke the collegiate indoor record of 14:52.57 set by Alabama’s Doris Lemngole at this meet last year. Hedengren was coming off the NCAA Cross Country Championships, where she was beaten by Lemngole, who skipped the Boston meet.

 Hedengren set a national high school and American U20 indoor record of 15:13.26 on March 13 at New York.

The outdoor collegiate record is 14:52.18 by Florida’s Parker Valby, 2024.

Hedengren climbed to No. 2 on the all-time U.S. indoor list behind Elise Cranny (14:33.17), and .01 ahead of No. 3, Josette Andrews (14:44.80).

Hedengren passed 3,000 meters in 8:59.01 before running the final two kilometers in 2:56.03 and 2:49.75. Her final 1,600 was 4:35.

Riley Chamberlain, also of BYU, was second in 14:58.97. New Mexico’s Pamela Kosgei, the outdoor NCAA champion at 5,000 and 10,000, was third in 15:05.41.

Florida’s Hilda Olemomoi, third in NCAA cross country, was fourth in 15:08.61. Notre Dame sophomore Mary Bonner Dalton was fifth in 15:11.31.

Elsewhere in men’s races:

>> 5,000 meters: New Mexico’s Habtom Samuel, coming off his NCAA cross country title, finished in a virtual dead heat with Villanova’s Marco Langon. Both were timed in 13:05.21 in a victory credited to Samuel.

Samuel, with an indoor PB of 13:04.92 from Feb. 1, and Langon are Nos. 3 and 4 on the all-time collegiate indoor list. At No. 5 is Virginia’s Gary Martin, who was third in this race in 13:05.57. Oklahoma State’s Denis Kipgngetich was fourth in 13:12.91.

 Washington State’s Solomon Kipchoge, third in cross country behind Samuel and Wake Forest’s Rocky Hansen, finished 11th in 13:24.30. (Hansen was second Saturday at the cross country nationals to make the world team.)

>> 3,000 meters: Northern Arizona’s Colin Sahlman again underscored his range by winning in 7:36.71, worth No. 7 on the all-time collegiate indoor list, just ahead of Langon.  Sahlman, 16th in NCAA cross country,  has run 800 meters in 1:45.63 and 1,500 in 3:33.96. 

Sahlman held off Virginia Tech’s George Couttie, 7:36.74, and pro Sam Prakel, 7:37.16. Oregon’s Simeon Birnbaum was fourth in 7:39.65, breaking the indoor school record of 7:40.51 set by Edward Cheserek in 2016. 

Ryan Schoppe and Fouad Messaoudi, running unattached, were fifth and eighth in 7:39.81 and 7:42.51, respectively. Schoppe and Messaoudi helped Oklahoma State win the NCAA cross country team title by placing 34th and fifth, respectively.

>> Mile: Oregon’s James Harding beat Georgetown half-miler Tinoda Matsatsa, 3:55.92 to 3:56.20. Collegians Carter Cutting of BYU and Camden Marshall of Indiana were fourth and fifth in 3:56.79 and 3:57.05.

Elsewhere in women’s races:

>> 3,000 meters: South Carolina sophomore Salma Elbadra was first in 8:41.76 for No. 5 on the all-time collegiate indoor list. The 21-year-old Moroccan was 28th in NCAA cross country.

 North Carolina’s Vera Sjoberg was second in 8:43.06 and Liberty’s Allie Zealand third 8:44.71. (They had been eighth and 21st in cross country, respectively.) Angelina Napoleon, who was 40th in cross country to help North Carolina State take the team title, was fourth in 8:46.15.

Mile: Helen Braybrook of CSU-Pueblo set an NCAA Division 2 record in winning in 4:30.03. Previous record was 4:31.99 by University of Indianapolis’ Berenice Cleyet-Merle, 4:31.99 in 2022. Harvard half-miler Sophia Gorriaran was second in 4:32.94.

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