In 1966, at age nineteen, Jim Ryun set the world record in both the mile and the half-mile runs, and received Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsman of the Year" award, as well as the James E. Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete and was vote Track & Field New’s Athlete of the Year as the world’s best track & field athlete.
Established the high school and US open mile record 3:55.3 as a senior in 1965, a record that stood as the high school record for 36 years until broken by Alan Webb’s (from South Lakes High School) 3:53.43 in 2001.
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