Maddie Dahlien Will Break Into the MN All-Time Top Ten In Three Events
The breakout of Edina freshman Maddie Dahlien in 2019 was staggering, going from a soccer player who had never run high school track before to becoming the State Meet runner-up in all three sprinting events. As the soccer skills can attest (Dahlien is already committed to the University of North Carolina for soccer), the talent was always there, but even such a talent could hardly have foreseen Dahlien rewriting Edina's record books by dropping times of 11.99 in the 100m, 24.45 in the 200m, and 55.48 in the 400m.
At the moment, Dahlien's times as shown above are the 21st best time all-time in Minnesota for the 100m, 11th best for the 200m, and 15th all-time for the 400m. If she even improves her times half of what she did from the 2019 to the 2021 season (the 2020 season was canceled), she would put herself into some impressive company. If that happens, her 100m time would improve to 11.92, her 200m time would be 24.20, and her 400m time would be 55.23.
If she hits those times, she would then be 12th all-time in the 100m, 5th all-time in the 200m, and 12th all-time in the 400m. Though she would be just short of the top ten with those marginal improvements, we can't count out another big improvement her senior season, and in what is most likely her last track and field season ever.
To break into the top-ten all-time, Dahlien would have to run 11.88 100m, 24.41 in the 200m, and 55.16 400m.