Huskies Host UW Invitational Plus Mile City Mayhem

2024 UW Invitational and Mile City

Jan. 26-27 | Dempsey Indoor

HEAT SHEETS | Final Schedule | Meet Information | Accepted Entries
Live Stream on Runnerspace | Live Results

Mile City Meet Information

Mile City Women’s Heat Sheets | Mile City Men’s Heat Sheets | Final Schedule | Meet Information

Mile City Men’s Accepted Entries | Mile City Women’s Accepted Entries | Mile City Explained

Live Stream on Runnerspace | Live Results

SEATTLE – Seattle temporarily changes its name on Saturday, as “Mile City” sweeps through the Dempsey Indoor for the first time. Held in conjunction with the UW Invitational, this special event will see over 600 men and women, from youth to masters athletes, beginners to professionals and the best in the NCAA, run five-plus laps around the Dempsey.

 

As explained by Husky assistant coach Chris Kwiatkowski, the impetus behind putting on this new event was “trying to put together a really good field at the high-performance, elite end, and get a fast mile going, but more importantly provide a setting for the community around Seattle, the state of Washington, and hopefully around the nation at some point, to mark on their calendar, the same way they would a road race or another track event. Train for it, get excited for it, come in the setting of the Dempsey Indoor, and try to run a good mile.”

 

“Whether it’s a PR that those people are going for, whether it’s a time trial, or their first time running a mile on an indoor track, all those things are equally important, and that’s the setting we wanted to provide for everybody,” said Kwiatkowski.

 

The Mile City events will kick off on Saturday at 1 p.m. But before that, there’s a full day-and-a-half of every other track event imaginable happening as part of the UW Invitational. That meet will start Friday, Jan. 26, at 3 p.m. and go until approximately 7:30. Then the meet picks up on Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and will conclude at 12 noon.

 

While there will be 37 total heats of the mile, the two fastest men’s heats and two fastest women’s heats will be slated to go between 3 and 3:30 p.m.

 

The one field event that will continue through into the Mile City events will be the women’s pole vault, featuring an elite field including UW’s All-Americans Nastassja Campbell and Sara Borton, World Championships finalist Hana Moll in her first Dempsey competition as a Dawg, and 2016 Rio Olympics Gold Medalist Katerina…