Lexy Halladay-Lowry Ran 9:08 in the Steeplechase, Went Sub-15 in the 5K, and Is Now One of the Fastest NCAA Athletes of All Time

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Lexy Halladay-Lowry is chasing the clock while rewriting the record books.

With an indoor mile PR of 4:31, a blistering 8:40 in the 3,000, and a sub-15 in both the indoor and outdoor 5,000m, Lexy is one of the fastest ever to do it in NCAA history.

She’s an 8-time All-American, a two-time NCAA cross country team champion, and the current No. 2 in the nation in the steeplechase after clocking 9:08 and finishing runner-up at the 2025 outdoor championships.

From breaking five minutes in the mile as a seventh grader in Idaho to rising through the NCAA ranks, she has been on a steady rise.

She was 14th in the 2025 cross country championships and 2nd and 3rd in this year’s indoor 5,000m and 3,000m.

She holds multiple school records at BYU, plays the violin, studies public health, and made history as the first NCAA runner to ink a NIL deal with Kiprun.

There is much to unpack with Lexy: her Olympic dreams, her process for building championship poise, and what it takes to keep rising when the pressure hits hardest.

In today's conversation, Lexy walks me through her remarkable NCAA performance, all that led up to that performance, inside her training and mindset with BYU, her plans for her future and turning professional, and so much more.

This is an inside look at one of the greatest to ever do it at the NCAA level for the steeplechase.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The goal has been to run in college and the dream has been to run professionally.
0:05.0	And it's turning out that I will get to pursue that dream and we'll announce that around USA's,
0:13.0	but I'm going to actually get the opportunity to wear the B.Y uniform one more time and at the first round of USA's.
0:20.0	And yeah, I just feel, I just feel so lucky
0:23.5	because some women can go through the NCAA
0:26.0	and have incredible careers
0:27.4	and they don't get the opportunity to run professionally.
0:31.1	And I feel so blessed and honored
0:34.3	to be able to, to continue to do this thing that I love and this thing that I'm so
0:38.4	passionate about.
0:43.2	That was Lexi Halliday Laurie today on the Running Effect podcast and privileged to join her
0:48.0	recently after her wild, seems hard to believe, stating this out loud, 908 steeplechase
0:54.0	performance at the 2025 NCAA
0:56.9	Championships where she placed runner up.
0:59.1	She's become one of the most accomplished, storied runners in BYU woman's history, and she's
1:04.4	just been on an absolute tear.
1:05.6	I can't believe that we now have females in the NCAA running 908.
1:09.5	It is truly crazy.
1:10.6	And then on the grass, she's contributed
1:11.9	to two NCAA team championship level performances from the BYU women's distance team.
1:19.7	Winning an NCAA title on the grass is remarkably difficult in a career, but doing it twice
1:24.4	and contributing to it in a massive way is, yeah, ridiculous.
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