National champions and All-Americans are set to headline this year's Nike high school mile fields at the 117th Millrose Games on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, at The Armory in New York City. 

 

Tamrat Gavenas, the 2024 Foot Locker champion, and Charlie Vause, the 2024 Nike Cross Nationals champion, are the featured match-up in the boys field, along with TJ Hansen, Caden Leonard, Tommy Latham, Keegan Smith and Corbin Coombs.

 

Addy Ritzenhein, the 2023 Nike Cross Nationals champion, will take on Sophia and Victoria Rodriguez, Paige Sheppard, Zariel Macchia, Lily Alder, Ellery Lincoln and Dylan McElhinney in the girls race.

 

Gavenas of Andover, Mass., took home top honors at this year's Foot Locker Cross Country Championships, winning his first national title at San Diego's Balboa Park on Dec. 14, running 15 minutes, 23.9 seconds for the challenging 5-kilometer course.

 

Gavenas announced his commitment to Harvard University recently and will be one of three boys returning from last year's Millrose Games high school mile, including Hansen and Smith. Gavenas was sixth in 4:12.07.

 

Hansen completed his final high school cross country season with a runner-up finish at Nike Cross Nationals on Dec. 7. The Freeland, Mich., native, set to run for the University of Colorado next fall, ran 4:05.87 at last year's Millrose Games.

 

Smith of Knoxville, Tenn., another University of Colorado signee, finished the cross country season with pair of All-American honors at both Nike Cross Nationals (fifth) and Foot Locker (sixth).

 

Vause of Rio Rancho, N.M., will make his Millrose Games debut coming off a miraculous title run at Nike Cross Nationals, winning the rainy, and muddy, race in 15:28.1 at Glendoveer Golf Course in Portland on Dec. 7.

 

Just a couple of spots behind Vause was Leonard of Carroll, Texas, and Latham, of Atlanta, earning third and fourth, respectively. 

 

Latham, heading to the University of North Carolina next fall, posted the top returning mile time from last outdoor season in 4:01.74. Leonard ran 4:04.02 as the top sophomore from last spring.

 

Coombs of Las Cruces, N.M., was 14th at Foot Locker and was second in the 2-mile at the 2024 Nike Outdoor Nationals.

 

Ritzenehin of Niwot, Colo., returns to The Armory for the first time since her freshman year in 2023 when she was a part of national champion 4x800 relay team with the REAL Training Club.

 

Ritzenhein, who recently committed to Northern Arizona, heads to New York off a fifth-place finish at Nike Cross Nationals, earning her second consecutive All-American honor to go along with her NXN national title in 2023.

 

McElhinney of New York City will be one of three girls making their second appearance at the Millrose Games after finishing second in last year's high school girls mile in 4:44.19. The hometown favorite won three Nike national titles last indoor and outdoor seasons and a USATF U20 1,500 meters title.

 

Sophia Rodriguez of Mercer Island, Wash., and Macchia of Mastic Beach, N.Y., are the other returners. Rodriguez was ninth and Macchia finishing 11th in last year's race.

 

Rodriguez, who finished eighth at Nike Cross Nationals, will be joined by her sister Victoria, who finished 12th at Nike Cross Nationals. Victoria Rodriguez is a Wake Forest commit and won the steeplechase title at Nike Outdoor Nationals last spring.

 

Macchia, a Brigham Young University signee, completed her highest finish at Foot Locker Cross Country Championships last month, running to a third-place finish to earn a fourth consecutive All-American honor.

 

Alder of Provo, Utah and Lincoln of Portland, Ore. are making their Millrose Games debut.

 

Alder makes her way back to New York nearly a year after finishing third in the girls mile at Nike Indoor Nationals. Alder posted one of the fastest three-mile times of the cross country season, running 15:28.9 at the Woodbridge Cross Country Classic.

 

Lincoln clocked the second-fastest freshman girls mile time ever last outdoor season, running 4:40.75. Lincoln signed a NIL deal recently with Nike.

 

Sheppard was a member of Union Catholic NJ's national record breaking 4x800 relay team at last year's Penn Relays, running 8:34.20. Sheppard recently lowered her New Jersey state indoor record in the 1,600 down to 4:44.77 at the LVS Opener on Dec. 14, 2024. She competed at Millrose last year in the 4x800.