Crater’s Josiah Tostenson makes Oregon distance running history HOKA Festival of Miles

Oregon finally has its first high school sub-four-minute mile in an outdoor race.

On Thursday night, Crater senior Josiah Tostenson finished second at the HOKA Festival of Miles in St. Louis, Missouri. He finished in three minutes, 59 seconds.

It’s a new state record for the mile, breaking the 4:00.69 that Tostenson ran at the Nike/Jesuit Twilight Relays in May.

Tostenson is a five-time track and field state champion in Oregon, winning the 1,500-meter title as a freshman, the 1,500 and the 3,000 as a junior, and

the 800 and the 1,500 as a senior

.

He also holds the Oregon high school record in the 1,500 (3:40.06).

Tayvon Kitchen, Tostenson’s longtime Crater teammate, finished in seventh place in 4:02.56.

Kitchen

won the OSAA Class 5A 3,000-meter state championship last week

, and is a

two-time cross country state champion

. He also holds the state record in the 3,000 (7:58.92) and the 5K cross country record (14:23.7).

Tostenson and Kitchen both ran sub-four-minute miles at the Terrier DMR Challenge in Boston in February.

Thursday’s race was won by Quentin Nauman of Iowa, who finished in 3:58.65.

Lakeridge’s Chloe Huyler runs in the Class 6A girls 1,500-meter state championship race at the OSAA track and field state meet on Saturday, May 31, 2025 at Hayward Field in Eugene.

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In the girls’ race, Lakeridge senior Chloe Huyler finished fifth in 4:39.54. It’s a new personal best for Huyler, less that two-tenths of a second off Lincoln’s Ellery Lincoln, who ran a 4:39.37 at the Twilight Relays for the No. 2 time in state history.

The state record is 4:36.09 set by former Olympic gold medalist Maria Mutola in 1991.

Huyler is a three-time OSAA Class 6A state champion, winning the 3,000 as a junior and sweeping

the 1,500

and

the 3,000

as a senior. She also won the

Class 6A cross country state championship

in the fall.

She holds the Oregon high school record in the 3,000 with a 9:17.85 this spring.

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Nik Streng

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