A senior at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac broke the four-minute mile by two hundreds of a second Thursday.
Tinoda Matsatsa, 18, clocked in at 3:58.70. That time enabled him to finish third in the HOKA Festival of Miles in St. Louis. His previous fastest mile was 4:05.68.
“I feel so great man. Everything that I’ve done up to this point since like November has led up to today,” he said in an interview right after his race.
County Councilmember Natali Fani-Gonzalez tweeted, “Proud of Tinoda Matsatsa, an 18-year-old senior from St. Andrew’s Episcopal High School in MoCo, is the 19th U.S. high school boy to break four minutes for the mile. He smashed his previous one-mile best of 4:05.68, from a month ago, by nearly seven seconds.”
Check out the full race 🏃🏿♂️💨
📽️https://t.co/lxQVQe6kbC pic.twitter.com/k3ZKPhX9wQ— St. Andrew's Athletics (@SAES_Sports) June 2, 2023
Photo courtesy: Derick Dingle/MileSplit
