With the movie McFarland, USA set to hit theaters on Feb. 20, USA TODAY High School Sports is looking back at some of the top athletes to be part of the American Family Insurance ALL-USA track and field teams over the years. Based on a true story from 1987, McFarland, USA tells the story of coach Jim White, who took an unlikely group of athletes in a predominantly Latino small town in California and built a legacy of cross country runners.
JORDAN HASAY
Events: Mile, 3200 meters
High school: Mission College Prep (San Luis Obispo, Calif.)
ALL-USA history: Hasay, who as a high school junior competed in the 1,500 meters finals at the 2008 Olympic Trials, was named to the ALL-USA first team in 2009. She was the ninth high school athlete (and third female) to appear on the cover of Track and Field magazine when she was on the March 2009 edition.
After ALL-USA: At the University of Oregon, she went on to become an NCAA indoor champion for the mile and 3,000 meters and a three-time NCAA outdoor bronze medalist for the 1500 and 5,000.
Today: A four-time USA Junior 1,500-meter champion and two-time USA Outdoors 10,000-meter runner-up, Hasay lives in Portland, Ore., where she trains under Alberto Salazar as part of the Nike Oregon Project. In 2014, her time of 31:39.67 in the 10,000 at the Payton Invitational was a personal best and the fifth-fastest time in the world last year. Hasay, 23, finished second in the 10,000 at the USA Track and Field Championships (32:03.28).
Jordan Hasay of San Luis Obispo Mission College Prep in California was third in the Foot Locker cross country country championships in 2007. (Photo: Kirby Lee, USA TODAY Sports)
Jordan Hasay (right) comes down to the finish line with Kim Conley in the finals of the women’s 10,000 meters in the USA Track and Field Championships (Photo: Kirby Lee, USA TODAY Sports)