From left to right: Marley Turk, Simeon Birnbaum, Jordyn Arens, and Clay Shively
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To create additional opportunities to compete at historic Drake Stadium and satisfy fans' appetite to witness the best the sport has to offer, the Drake Relays continually looks for opportunities to showcase the sport of track and field with new and unique events. One of those opportunities this year is creating an elite 1-mile event for high school competitors that will feature Iowa's best lining up against competitors from neighboring midwest states for the first time on the Blue Oval.
It's an accomplished field for both the boy's and the girl's elite miles with some of the best of the best of the Midwest.
The boy's elite field includes Simeon Birnbaum, one of 17 boys to break the four-minute-mile barrier as a high schooler, Iowa state record holder Jackson Heidesch, Clay Shively who this year broke a Jim Ryun Kansas record, and 4x Minnesota state record holder Noah Breker.
On the girl's side, you have 2022 Drake Relays 3000m champion Paityn Noe, South Dakota sophomore standout Libby Castelli, Missouri 1500m #1 Josie Baker, and 8x Nebraska state champion Jordyn Arens.
It can be anyone's race to take as we know from Burnbaum's sub-four-minute-mile from last year when he came into his race as the lowest-seeded runner with a time of 4:07.88.
The elite high school mile will be contested on Friday, April 29th at 8:28 pm for the girls and 8:35 for the boys.
For the seeded times, all times were from the MileSplit database. If a runner did not have a 1-mile time, a converted 1500m or 1600m time was used.
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Elite High School Mile Entries
Boys
| Athlete | School | State | Mile PR |
| Rapid City Stevens | SD | 3:59.51 | |
| Dowling Catholic | IA | 4:02.25 | |
| Wichita Trinity Academy | KS | 4:04.95 | |
| Shawnee Mission East | KS | 4:10.42 | |
| Rock Bridge | MO | 4:10.61 | |
| Robbinsdale Armstrong | MN | 4:10.71 | |
| Joplin | MO | 4:10.83 | |
| Iowa City High | IA | 4:13.43 | |
| Hinsdale Central | IL | 4:15.52 | |
| Shawnee Mission East | KS | 4:21.27 | |
| Johnston | IA | 4:22.84 |
Girls
| Athlete | School | State | Mile PR |
| Ballard | IA | 4:54.29 | |
| Valley | IA | 4:58.73 | |
| Sioux Falls O'Gorman | SD | 4:59.11 | |
| Des Moines Roosevelt | IA | 5:02.46 | |
| Pleasant Valley | IA | 5:05.11 | |
| Kirkwood | MO | 5:05.24 | |
| Sioux Falls O'Gorman | SD | 5:06.21 | |
| Ames | IA | 5:06.69 | |
| Crofton | NE | 5:16.54 |
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