Mile City Preview

Mile City - January 31, 2026

Dempsey Indoor - Seattle, Washington

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University of Washington hosts the third annual Mile City with over 1500 entries. The only race on the track on Saturday is the mile.

Kaiya Robertson of Boise State

The top seeds in the women's invitational mile include professionals Eleanor Fulton and Claire Yerby. Chloe Foerster, Jenica Swartz, Mia Cochran from Washington, Erin Vringer and Brianna Rinn of Utah, Rosemary Longisa of Washington State and Kaiya Robertson of Boise State are some of the top collegiate runners in the invitational mile.

Cassidy Armstrong (332) of Ballard

The mile is open to the community and this gives high school athletes an opportunity to race at the Mile City. Several athletes who raced at NXN in December are in the Mile City like Cassidy Armstrong of Ballard, Sloan Dickson of Lynden, Lis Desler and Kjirsten Ludeman of Sehome. Other high school athletes of note include Brynn Davenport of Crater, Sydney Kosa of Olympia, Sophie Schoolmeester of Banks, Evangeline Johnson Hess of South Eugene and Lauren Gerlach of Tualatin.

Sam Prakel of Adidas

The men's invitational mile pros Sam Prakel, Brannon Kidder, Thomas Ratcliffe, Joe Waskom and Sam Eillis will race Washington athletes Evan Jenkins, Jamar Distel, Thomas Bilyard, Owen Powell, Josiah Tostenson, Reuben Reina JR and Thomas Diamond. Chris Caudillo of Cal Poly will also race in the invitational mile.

Jayden Warner of Warrenton

A number of athletes who raced at NXN are in the men's seeded mile races like Noah Strohman of Holliday (TX), Kellen Williams, Matthew Wroblewski and Jackson Welsh of Jesuit, Jayden Warner of Warrenton, Peter James of Lincoln, Garrett Faught of Crater and Yosuke Shibata of South Eugene. Other notable high school athletes include Brady Anderson of Faith Lutheran (NV), Maxwell Miracle and Ryder White of Crater, Isaac Benjamin of South Kitsap, Amin Fidaar of Rogers, Mason Morical of Caldera, Ronan Gantzos of Oregon Episcopal School, Liam Wilde of Wilsonville, Bjorn Blankenship and Clayton Jero of Summit.

Look for photos from Mile City after the meet!

Also, Russell Moore will be taking pictures on Friday and will have a gallery available.