Episode 540: Kendall Ellis- U.S. 400M Champion on her way to the Paris Olympics!
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SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Kendall Ellis won the 400m at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Track and Field becoming a National Champion and securing her spot to run the open 400 at the Paris Olympics. She PR’d in both the semi final and the final at the trials running a time of 49.46 in the final. This was her first PR in 6 years…. and you’ll hear in this episode she wasn’t so hung up on that at all over these years because there were so many wins along the way.
Kendall is an Olympic Gold Medalist in the 4X400 relay and an Olympic Bronze Medalist in the 4X400 mixed relay. She also competed in open 400m at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships where she won Gold in the 4X400 relay both times. Kendall is sponsored by New Balance and she ran for The University of Southern California where she was a 3X NCAA champion.
In this episode we talk about the race itself and those post race feelings as well as how she stays mentally focused and has learned to believe in the work she has been putting in over the last decade of competing. She also shares with us what her prayer was going into these races.
Please enjoy my conversation with Olympian Kendall Ellis!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. Hey everybody welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hine. I'm your host Lindsay. Thanks so much |
| 0:25.1 | for being here today. Hope you've had a great 4th of July. Speaking of |
| 0:29.8 | 4th of July, Kendall Ellis and I recorded this episode of the podcast yesterday on the 4th of July. |
| 0:38.0 | Kendall is another one of our Olympians for Team USA headed to Paris. She won the 400 in the track and |
| 0:47.2 | field trials last week and it was so exciting to see her come in first place |
| 0:52.4 | with such a strong finish. |
| 0:54.3 | Kendall was first on this show in May of 2022, |
| 0:57.8 | episode 385, if you want to go back |
| 1:00.2 | and learn a little bit more about her history in the sport. |
| 1:05.0 | She is an Olympic gold medalist in the 4 by 4 relay and an Olympic bronze medalist in the mixed 4 by 4 relay. She also has a gold medal in the 4 by 4 at |
| 1:17.0 | the 2019 and 2017 World Championships where she competed as an individual as well. |
| 1:24.0 | In 2021, she barely missed making it as an individual in the 400 |
| 1:30.1 | for the Olympics, placing in that fourth place spot. |
| 1:34.4 | This time around comes back and wins the whole thing, |
| 1:37.7 | getting a national title and running a personal record of 49.46, |
| 1:45.5 | her second PR of the week, |
| 1:48.4 | but that PR she ran in the semifinals at the trials was her first PR in six years. So we talk about what those |
| 1:57.8 | last six years looked like and how there were so many wins in those six years that she really wasn't even focused on the |
| 2:05.8 | time on that personal record but dang if it didn't happen at just the right time. |
| 2:12.1 | Kendall ran for the University of Southern California |
| 2:15.8 | where she was a three-time NCAA champion. |
| 2:18.2 | And I would say she is one to be watching to possibly win a medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. |
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