Tyler King may not be the fastest miler in the country, but he is the most stylish.
Tyler King closed out the indoor section of his track season Friday by coming within half a second of his best time in the mile.
The Coupeville High School grad, now running for the University of Washington, covered four trips around the track oval in four minutes, 12.05 seconds. His best college time is 4:11.35.
King was running at the UW Final Qualifier, an event set up to give athletes one last chance to set a time worthy of advancing to the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships March 9-10. The top 16 times in the nation qualify in each event.
To make the cut, King would have had to run a sub-four minute mile. Husky teammate Joey Bywater, who won the mile Friday, clocked in at 4:01.81.
Chris O’Hare of Tulsa has the best time in the nation this year at 3:52.98, with the 16th fastest time currently belonging to Tyler Stutzman of Stanford (3:58.85).
King and his UW teammates move into the outdoor section of the track season starting March 22-23 at the Trojan Invitational in Los Angeles.
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