In this first edition of Indiana: Most Improved, we'll take a look at who has put in the work this past year and improved the most from their PR last August compared to this past month.
The top honors for the boys would go to Shia Veach from Shelbyville who took off nearly three and a half minutes from his best 5K from August last fall. Both results would come from the Franklin Community Invitational where Shia would run a 20:47.8 last year before improving to a. 17:19.5 this past weekend. Graham Pumphrey, Jackson Zona, and Logan Ankney would all have August 5K improvements of over 3 minutes as well!
For the girls the title of August most improved goes to Cam Ritschard from South Bend St. Joseph who had a whopping 8 minute improvement from her best 5K from last August. The senior ran a season best time of 29:29 last fall at the NIC Stomp before running to an impressive improvement of 21:11 at this year's meet. Ellie McClelland and Isla Bakker would have the next best improvements g...