Cade Flatt was in a league of his own on Saturday.
The Marshall County (KY) senior and Ole Miss senior became the sixth high schooler to go under 1:50 for 800 meters at the UK High School Invitational, clocking a U.S. No. 2 time of 1:49.76.
In any other year, that performance would top the charts. But it's been a special year. The current No. 1, Will Sumner, who owns an all-time mark of 1:48.14, ran in the 200m and 400m on Saturday inside Nutter Fieldhouse.
That left Flatt to star in the half-mile.
And the Ole Miss recruit sure did, gapping the field shortly after the 300 meter mark as he turned on the gas and went for history.
That performance is a new Kentucky indoor record and it was just four-hundredths of a second shy of the all-time state mark of 1:49.31, which Tretez Kinnaird claimed in 2012.
UK HS Invite Boys 800m Results
1
Cade FlattMarshall County [SR]
1:49.76
1 (1)
1
2
Tyler EbbertFarragut High School [SR]
1:56.24
1 (2)
4
3
Jackson OlivoKindersport [SR]
1:57.23
1 (3)
9
4
JB TerrillBoyd County High [SR]
1:57.32
2 (1)
5
5
Jon CoulterUnattached [SR]
1:57.66
1 (4)
2
6
Joseph MinesWoodstock TC [SR]
1:57.84
1 (5)
6
7
Dawson ReevesChrist School [SO]
1:58.04
1 (6)
3
8
Asa MazowHardin Valley [SR]
1:58.38
2 (2)
3
Cade Flatt was in a league of his own on Saturday.
The Marshall County (KY) senior and Ole Miss senior became the sixth high schooler to go under 1:50 for 800 meters at the UK High School Invitational, clocking a U.S. No. 2 time of 1:49.76.
