The Votes Are In! The Winner Is.......



Gracie Hyde Is Your Winner!

Over the last week or so, we have been running a 16 person bracket of the top track girl distance runners from the last ten years. ArMileSplit picked the top 16 based on combined rankings of the fastest 1600m and 3200m times. Each round the viewers of this website got to vote for their favorite and the girls with the most votes moved on to the next round. 

The #9 seed Gracie Hyde from Lonoke/Benton received the most votes each round and beats Emily Myers from Cabot in the championship round with nearly 55% of the votes. Lets take a quick look at Gracie's High School career.

 High School Personal Bests

Outdoor

Discus

66-1

High Jump

4-8

Long Jump

14-8.75

Shot Put

23-4

Triple Jump

29-5

Heptathlon

3343

100 Meter Hurdles

18.59

200 Meter Dash

28.17

300 Meter Hurdles

49.71

400 Meter Dash

1:04.65

800 Meter Run

2:18.23

1500 Meter Run

4:52.97

1600 Meter Run

5:04.94

One Mile Run

5:06.01

2000 Meter Steeplechase

7:13.87

3200 Meter Run

11:14.38

 

Indoor

400 Meter Dash

1:02.59

800 Meter Run

2:18.10

1600 Meter Run

5:26.55

One Mile Run

5:00.83

3000 Meter Run

10:33.32

3200 Meter Run

11:47.93

Two Mile Run

12:02.06

 

CC

5000 Meter Run

18:50.18


It is safe to say that Gracie is one of the top distance runners of the last ten years and she definitely has a big following of voters! During Gracie's high School career she won 10 state championships in track and CC. She is now having a great career running for the University of Central Arkansas Lady Bears.

Congratulations Gracie Hyde! 

Now on to the Boys!