Indiana Preps | Numbers Talk
Thursday night at the IHSAA regional, Rylan Hainje ran 13.05 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles. That is the fastest time in United States high school history.
Then he won the 300-meter hurdles too.
The Franklin Central senior is headed to the state meet as the regional champion in both hurdle events and the owner of a national record that the track and field world is already talking about. The performance wasn’t a surprise to anyone who has been watching Hainje this season — he entered Thursday night already ranked among the best prep hurdlers in the country and had been flirting with record territory all spring. But knowing something is possible and watching it happen are two different things.
13.05 happened.
The IHSAA State Finals are next. The stage at North Central High School will be the biggest of Hainje’s prep career, and if Thursday night is any indication of where he is physically and mentally headed into the postseason, the conversation about what he might run in his final race as a Franklin Central Flash is genuinely open.
What he does with that stage is the story still being written.
Indiana Preps will be there.