By Ron Knapp with Senior Correspondent Marty Ogden
In a special feature after an exciting outdoor season that saw nine state records rewritten and before we take a summer hiatus from constant activity, MySportsResults presents a review of the latest Connecticut and CIAC Open and Class Meet records from the 2025 outdoor season. We hope you enjoy reviewing the latest updates to each meet record noted below that includes photos of the athletes from MSR and coaches.
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Boy’s State Records
2000m Steeplechase
Three, two, one. Those are Soheib Dissa’s finishes the last three years in the 2000m steeplechase at New Balance Nationals Outdoor in Philadelphia. After coming close the past two years, the Newtown senior finally came away with a national title and the emotions were evident as he raised his arms and pumped his fist twice in the last 100m. He may have just missed the meet record by about a half of a second but he ran the fastest time in the nation and crushed his own state record with a time of 5:43.98. His performance is also the 4th fastest time in US high school history, only three seconds more than Nathan Mountain’s national record of 5:40.72.
1-Mile
Prior to his winning performance at NBNO, Soheib Dissa elected to bypass competition in the CIAC Class L meet to race against the nation’s best at the HOKA Festival of Miles at St. Louis University HS in Missouri on June 5th. His performance in the second tiered High School Elite 1-Mile race not only netted him a personal record but a new state record as he finished third in a time of 4:03.26. Dissa lowered the previous state record of 4:03.46 set by Ridgefield’s Steven Hergenrother at the same meet last year.
Discus and Hammer Throws
The rain ended the boys discus early and meet organizers opted to not continue the first day of events at the New Balance Outdoor Nationals in Philadelphia PA. Luckily, Simsbury’s Marshall Potter unleashed a lifetime best of 194-4 on his first throw which not only made the finals, it broke Gary Moore’s CT state record by just over a foot. According to Bloomfield coach Damian Larkins, Potter had a sector foul in the finals that was around 200 feet and was looking forward to getting a legal throw in that range but lost that opportunity. The…
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