Alisa Harvey

Running career High school As a student athlete at Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, Virginia, she set the still standing Virginia High School record for 1600 meters at 4:50. Her high school time for the 1500 metres still ranks as the #5 time, nationwide and has only been beaten once since she set it in 1983.

Collegiate Next she ran for the University of Tennessee, on their NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship 4x800 meter relay team. She was part of another Tennessee 4x800 team that set the NCAA record. Individually she won the 1986 NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship at 1500 meters.

Post-collegiate She won the 1991 and 1999 editions of the Fifth Avenue Mile in New York City. Later on, she continued to run into the Masters division and currently holds the world indoor record for the mile in both the W35 and W40 division. She also holds the W40 American outdoor records in the 800 metres and 1 mile.

She helped as an assistant coach at George Mason University, George Mason High School and at Battlefield High School. She was inducted into the National Black Distance Running Hall of Fame in 2019 by the National Black Marathoners Association (NBMA). She was also featured in the NBMA's feature-length documentary Breaking Three Hours: Trailblazing African American Marathoners.

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