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Alan Webb to compete at USA Indoor Championships - Prep Mile Record Holder continues Professional Career in Boston this weekend!!

U.S. high school mile record holder Alan Webb has declared to compete in the
men’s 1,500 meters at the 2003 USA Indoor Track & Field Championships this
weekend at Boston’s Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center, on the campus of
Roxbury Community College.

Competing in his first indoor mile since becoming a professional athlete on
February 15, Webb ran 3:59.49 to finish third in the New York Road Runners
Challenge Cup at the Armory Collegiate Invitational in New York.

Webb became an internationally heralded athlete when he ran the indoor mile
in 3:59.86 seconds at the New Balance Indoor Games at the Armory Track &
Field Center in New York in January 2001. The race made Webb the only
prepster ever to run the distance under four minutes.

A high school phenom at South Lakes High School in Virginia after breaking
Jim Ryun’s prep mile record for sophomores in 1999, Webb smashed Ryun’s high
school mile record outdoors in 2001, running 3:53.43 at the Prefontaine
Classic. Last year, he competed as a freshman at the University of Michigan,
where he was the Big 10 cross country champion and an All-American. At the
conclusion of the school year, he left Michigan to become a professional
athlete and reunited with his high school coach, Scott Raczko. Webb
continues to take classes at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.

The men’s 1,500m final at the 2003 USA Indoor Track & Field Championships
will be Saturday, March 1 at 6:34 p.m. Eastern Time. The meet will be
broadcast live on ESPN2 from 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m., Eastern Time, on Saturday and
is scheduled to include Webb’s race.

In other Indoor Championships declarations news, men’s 100m world record
holder Tim Montgomery has scratched from running in the 60 meters. He had
previously filed an entry for the meet.

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