5. There's even more about Mary Cain 
Mary Cain had a junior season that may only be described as astonishing. And record-smashing.
File photo by Kirby Lee
Mary Cain had a remarkable sophomore track-and-field season. What she did for an encore was nearly beyond belief.
National records equal wide smiles for Mary Cain.
File photo by Kirby Lee
The 17-year-old junior from
Bronxville (N.Y.)
broke the U.S. high school 5,000-meter record in the Portland Track
Festival at Lewis & Clark College by finishing in 15 minutes, 45.46
seconds.
This came a week after Cain broke national high school
and U.S. junior record in the 800, going 1:59.51 at the Prefontaine
Classic. And that came only 15 days after she broke her own 1,500
national mark by going 4:04.62 in the USATF Oxy High Performance Meet at
Occidental College in Los Angeles.
All that came after a
superlative indoor track season. On Jan. 26 in New York City, she ran
the indoor mile in 4:32.78, breaking a 41-year national mark by almost
six seconds. It was also faster than the 1982 outdoor mark of 4:35.24
set by Polly Plumer.
On Feb. 2 at the Boston Indoor Games, she
set an indoor two-mile record by going 9:38.68. On Feb. 16, she lowered
her own mile mark by going 4:28.25 — a time that was the fastest by an
American woman of any age during the 2013 indoor season.
Phew!
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