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State Mile Guide: #1 Delaware

March 07, 2013

Date of Statehood: December 7, 1787
Capital: Dover
Motto: Liberty & Independence

In 2018, Sam Parsons became the first Delawarean to go sub-4 in the Mile, clocking 3:59.70 in New York, and on April 9, 2022, Parsons recorded the first sub-4 Mile on state soil, winning The Delaware Mile Challenge in 3:58.17 on his high school track (Tatnall School). For women, two-time Olympian (1988 & 1996) and Wilmington native Vicki Huber holds the overall Mile record (4:28.31 indoors in 1988), and she continues to hold the Mile records, indoor & outdoor, at Villanova.

Vic Zwolak, born in Wilmington, who is one of the most accomplished Delaware Milers and its first track & field Olympian (Tokyo 1964, Steeplechase), was also a three-time NCAA champion at Villanova where he won the 1963 cross country title as well as the 1963-64 3000m Steeplechase crowns.

At the high school level, Tatnall HS has dominated the middle distance lists (see the below). Haley Pierce's 4:45.72 Mile at the 2011 adidas Grand Prix in New York is the prep state record.

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Vic Zwolak winning the 1963 NCAA Cross Country title for Villanova

STATE RECORDS

Delaware Soil
Male: 3:58.17 Sam Parsons (GER / CO), 2022
Female: 4:34.56 Molly Sughroue (USA / CO), 2022

Delawarean
Male: 3:57.36i, Kieran Tuntivate (THA / OR), 2020
Female: 4:28.31i & 4:28.77, Vicki Huber, 1988
i = indoors

BOYS: 
Mile: 4:13.82, Dominic Della Pelle, Salesianum HS, 2006
1600m: 4:11.71, Kieran Tuntivate, Charter HS, 2015

GIRLS:
Mile: 4:45.72, Haley Pierce, Tatnall HS, 2011
1600m: 4:41.19, Haley Pierce, Tatnall HS, 2011

 

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Tags: vicki huber (2) , vic zwolak (2) , tatnall hs (2) , state guide (13) , sam parsons (4) , kieran tuntivate (2) , haley pierce (1) , delaware (4)

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