Inside Sadie Engelhardt’s Next Chapter: Olympic Trials at 17, 4:27 Mile, 4:07 1500… and How She Plans to Win in College
THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST
Dominic Schlueter
4.9 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
At just 18, Sadie Engelhardt has lived the kind of running career most athletes dream about: national records, Olympic Trials, and head-to-head battles with pros.
Now, she’s back on the show as her next challenge looms: the grind of NCAA competition at NC State.
Sadie’s remarkable journey from rewriting the record books to embracing the challenges of collegiate running are sure to be primetime viewing. This is coming from the girl who set the high school outdoor mile record at 4:28.46 in St. Louisthen lowered it again indoors with a 4:27.97 at the Millrose Games.
She’s already left an indelible mark on prep distance running. Along the way, she gained invaluable experience racing the pros; competing at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials, finishing 7th at the Sir Walter Miler, and running a 4:07.78 1500m personal best this summer.
Sadie has talked about bringing a “free feeling” approach into one of the most competitive NCAA programs, even after setbacks like managing an achilles issue late in her high school career.
With a new NIL partnership with Brooks Running, her debut as a freshman at NC State, and fresh goals on the horizon, Sadie Engelhardt is redefining what’s possible at the next level.
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| 0:00.0 | It's just kind of this clean slate and I feel like a lot of focuses on the people that have already been in college for, you know, two, three, four years. |
| 0:09.0 | And I feel like at the same time, like people don't really expect freshmen to be up there. |
| 0:13.3 | Obviously, that's not, I'm a competitor and I want to be up with whoever's up top. |
| 0:18.0 | But yeah, having that, like, reputation, like freshman reputation of like, |
| 0:22.5 | oh, you don't, you know, it's an adjustment period. It kind of gives me that advantage of, you know, |
| 0:27.0 | people aren't really expecting anything. Obviously, I expect things for myself. So I think it's a |
| 0:31.7 | great position to be in. That was Sadie Englehart back today on the Running Effect podcast. |
| 0:40.9 | It's an absolute privilege to welcome Sadie back on. |
| 0:43.6 | We kind of have this little tradition. |
| 0:45.0 | I feel like where Sadie comes on every couple of months and breaks down her training mindset goals. |
| 0:49.6 | This time we are transitioning from her remarkable historic high school career into her collegiate |
| 0:55.1 | career where she now is an athlete, a student athlete at NC State in, I think, Raleigh, North |
| 1:00.6 | Carolina. Hopefully I got that right. But in high school, City was a national record holder. |
| 1:04.6 | She was a national champion. She was a state champion in her home state, the great state of |
| 1:09.4 | California and did things at the high school level that have never been seen before. |
| 1:14.4 | And now she's transitioning to college where she hopes to do that and then some. |
| 1:18.3 | But as we talk about in this conversation, it's nice not to have the pressure right away. |
| 1:22.1 | We talk about closing out her high school career on a positive note, how she handled that pressure in high school, |
| 1:27.1 | why she likes the pressure, her expectations for her time in college, what it's like to train |
| 1:31.2 | with other people. We also talk about her new NIL deal with Brooks, her perspective on the |
| 1:36.8 | collegiate scene and training with teammates and the whole nine yards. This is a really enjoyable |
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