NIKE's Cole Sprout: How to Keep Going When the Path to Greatness Isn’t Straight
THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST
Dominic Schlueter
4.9 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Blending Stanford smarts with relentless drive, Cole Sprout is emerging as one of America’s most exciting young pros.
Cole was the NACAC U23 Champion in the 5,000m in 2023 while also coming in 8th at the USATF Championships in the 5,000m the same year.
His PRs include a 7:42.41 in the 3,000m indoors in March of 2025; a 13:24.38 in the 5,000m indoors in 2022; a 27:42.42 in the 10,000m in 2022; a 3:56.53 mile in 2022; and a 3:42.27 1,500m in 2021.
His time at Stanford from 2020–2024 saw him become a five-time All-American; secure 4th outdoors in the NCAA championship in the 10,000 (2022); run an indoor 3,000m in 7:43.10 (which is number two in school history at the time); and show steady leadership on the grass.
Cole recently came in second at the Abbott Dash to the Finish Line 5k in New York amidst an extremely competitive field. He’s also now training under Jerry Schumacher and has his sights set on a whole lot more.
He stands at the crossroads of promise and breakthrough, ready to turn potential into podiums on the world stage.
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| 0:00.0 | Part of me was like I might get last today and it wouldn't really be a fault of not being fit. |
| 0:05.4 | I just know that there's, you know, all these guys are really competitive and really talented. |
| 0:09.5 | On the day, you just never know. |
| 0:11.3 | And I got in at like 4 a.m. Friday or Thursday. |
| 0:14.1 | So I was coming in and not feeling like I was optimizing in every way. |
| 0:18.7 | Yeah, I mean, the energy of New York and the road scene was just |
| 0:22.9 | spectacular. Like, I've never seen such a display for a love of running, you know, outside of |
| 0:29.3 | like the marathon, like tens of thousands of people showing up to watch the marathon and 5K and, |
| 0:34.1 | and, you know, everybody coming out to run so it's pretty infectious you know to go from that |
| 0:39.6 | and yeah kind of took the option of heading out into a quiet retirement off the table |
| 0:45.4 | that's about it. |
| 0:51.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, that was Mr. Cole Sprout today back on the Running Effect podcast. |
| 0:57.3 | Today's conversation is a really insightful one into this next chapter for Cole where he's not hanging up the spikes. |
| 1:03.7 | Or maybe he's hanging up the spikes. |
| 1:04.9 | He might be hanging it up on the track. |
| 1:06.4 | But he's certainly going full steam ahead on the roads. |
| 1:09.4 | He placed second at the NYC Road 5K that they always have the day before the New York |
| 1:14.5 | City Marathon in a star-studded, massive professional field. |
| 1:18.3 | And that's just the start for him. |
| 1:19.9 | He's got a big horizon ahead. |
| 1:21.4 | Today's conversation, we kind of dive into this new next chapter for him, as well as all sorts |
| 1:25.4 | of subjects reflecting on his past four five years |
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