At the NCAA track regionals, Ziyah continued to impress. She finished 5th and qualified for the NCAA finals. She broke her existing school record and is now just .06 seconds from the Olympic Qualifying Trials standard. Ziyah is having a fantastic freshman year and will likely go down as one of Michigan's all-time greats. Michigan's women's team had 4 others qualify for NCAA's with 800 meter runner Aurora Rynda being the most likely to score along with Ziyah (she ran 2:01 to move to 3rd all time on the Michigan list). The men's team qualified 9 athletes to NCAA's (a super performance). The most likely to score at the finals are decathlete Ayden Owens, the 2 shot putters, and 1500 meter runner Tom Dodd).
Way OT: Hobbs Kessler, an AA Skyline senior set the junior 1500 meter record running 3:34. To put this in perspective, his record his FASTER than the existing collegiate record and equivalent to a 3:51 mile (Alan Webb's HS record is 3:53) for the same event. He may be the most talented high school mid-distance runner to ever come along (former Michigan runner Alan Webb and Jim Ryun are the only other 2 in this conversation). He is trained by former Michigan coach and legend Ron Warhurst, and routinely trains with Michigan alumni Nick Willis and Mason Ferlic. Unfortunately for Michigan fans, he chose to attend NAU for college (NAU is probably the top cross country program in the country and Kessler is also a national class mountain climber).
