Sophia McInnes has been making winning look easy as she has put on dominating performance after dominating performance.
This weekend at the Molloy Stanner Games McInnes set another record.
McInnes broke the Suffolk record by finishing in just over one minute and thirty one seconds in the 600 meter. Last season McInnes qualified for the states in the 600, but this season she has not run it much. She beat the previous record by 0.35 seconds.
The Bayport - Blue Point student won the NYS title in XC earlier this season and then ran away with the invitational mile at the Armory NYC Hispanic Games last week.
Afterwards she told the Runners Space Podcast that "qualifying for Millrose was such a big deal" to her.She stated that she has been trying to qualify for the game for the past few years and just qualifying was a relief. She went on to state that one of her individual goals has always been to become an All American.
The Millrose Games will take place on February 8th.
Long Island was well represented as 7 other girls became Stanner Games individual champions.