List of United States high school national records in track and field
Event Record Athlete High School Name High School Location Meet Location Meet Name Date
50 m 6.28 Victoria Jordan Dunbar High School Ft. Worth , Texas Landover , Maryland March 11 , 2007
55 m 6.68 Angela Williams Chino High School Chino , California Roxbury , Boston Massachusetts March 15 , 1998
55 m 6.68 A Aleisha Latimer Palmer High School Colorado Springs , Colorado Boulder , Colorado January 19 , 1996
60 m 7.19 A Ashley Owens Liberty High School ( Colorado Springs ) Colorado Springs , Colorado Pocatello , Idaho February 21 , 2004
60 m 7.22 ( low altitude ) Aleisha Latimer Palmer High School Colorado Springs , Colorado Atlanta , Georgia March 1 , 1997
60 m 7.19 Tamari Davis East Ridge High School Clermont , Florida Columbia South Carolina Gamecock Opener January 17 , 2020
200 m 22.97 A Bianca Knight Ridgeland High School ( Mississippi ) Ridgeland , Mississippi Pocatello , Idaho February 17 , 2007
200 m 23.14 ( low altitude ) Allyson Felix LA Baptist High School North Hills , California Roxbury , Boston Massachusetts March 1 , 2003
300 m 36.82 Sydney McLaughlin Scotch Plains-Fanwood Union County , New Jersey Fort Washington Avenue Armory Artie O'Connor Invitational February 17 , 2017
400 m 51.61 Sydney McLaughlin Scotch Plains-Fanwood Union County , New Jersey Fort Washington Avenue Armory Artie O'Connor Invitational March 11 , 2017
500 m 1:10.30 Chanelle Price Easton Area High School Easton , Pennsylvania Fort Washington Avenue Armory Artie O'Connor Invitational January 19 , 2008
600 m 1:23.57 Athing Mu Trenton Central High School Trenton , New Jersey Staten Island USA Championships February 24 , 2019
800 m 2:01.78 Samantha Watson Rush-Henrietta High School Henrietta , New York Fort Washington Avenue Armory Millrose Games February 11 , 2017
1000 m 2:40.72 A Samantha Watson Rush-Henrietta High School Henrietta , New York Albuquerque Convention Center USA Championships March 5 , 2017
1500 m 4:11.72 Mary Cain Bronxville High School Bronxville , New York Fort Washington Avenue Armory Millrose Games February 19 , 2013
Mile 4:28.25 Mary Cain Bronxville High School Bronxville , New York Fort Washington Avenue Armory Millrose Games February 19 , 2013
2000 m 5:57.56 Katelyn Tuohy North Rockland High School Thiells , New York Staten Island , New York January 16 , 2018
3000 m 9:01.81 Katelyn Tuohy North Rockland High School Thiells , New York Fort Washington Avenue Armory Dr. Sander Invitational January 26 , 2019
2 mile run 9:38.68 Mary Cain Bronxville High School Bronxville , New York Roxbury , Boston Massachusetts February 2 , 2013
5000 meters 15:37.12 Katelyn Tuohy North Rockland High School Thiells , New York Lynchburg , Virginia The Virginia Showcase January 20 , 2018
Indoor -- Girls
The list of United States high-school national records in Track and Field are separated by indoor and outdoor and boys and girls who have set a national record in their respective events. While these records have been compiled for over 100 years, there are varying standards for these records. The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) compiles records based only upon competitions its state affiliates sanction. Those would be scholastic dual meets, high-school-only invitationals and championship meets up through the individual state championships. Track and Field News (T&FN) has tracked records by any American high school students, in any competition until they enter college. These records include marks made in open competition against higher-level competitors, post-season meets and international competition up until August 31 following their high-school graduation. Since there are no national championships in high-school competition, post-state-championship meets that proclaim such a position are not sanctioned by the NFHS and thus fall only under the T&FN guidelines. Additionally, high-school competition is conducted under slightly different rules, which have evolved over time. For example, in 1980, high schools converted their running distances from Imperial (yards) to metric, but instead of running conventional international distances like 1500 metres in place of the mile run, a more equitable but non-standard 1600 meters was chosen. For the two-mile run, they run 3200 meters. For the long-hurdle race, they run 300 meters instead of the 400 metres hurdles. Some states ran over lower hurdle heights for a period of time.