By Chris Chavez
January 21, 2025
Meet organizers have announced the elite field for the women’s 3000m at the 2025 edition of The Millrose Games, which will take place on Feb. 8th at The Armory in New York City.
“I’m so excited," Andrews says on The CITIUS MAG Podcast. "This will be my fourth Millrose Games but my first time running the 3000m. The last three years have been the Wanamaker Mile. I love running at the Armory. It’s 20 minutes from my hometown, so I’ll have a lot of family and friends come out. It feels like it’s my home track. That was where I had my first ever meet in high school. I have a lot of incredible memories at the Armory and the Millrose Games. I'm excited to switch it up a bit this year with running the 3000m for the first time and getting to start the indoor season there.”
Here’s what you need to know:
– The field is comprised of: Tsgie Gebreselama, Karissa Schweizer, Josette Andrews, Olivia Markezich, Whittni Morgan, Courtney Wayment, Katelyn Tuohy, Elly Henes, Sarah Healy, Melissa Courtney-Bryant, Gabbi Jennings, Hilda Olemomoi and Nozomi Tanaka.
– Andrews will be opening up her season in New York and will move up to the 3000m after racing the mile at the last three editions of the meet including runner-up finishes in 2022 (4:20.81) and 2023 (4:20.88).
– Schweizer, a two-time U.S. Olympian, is running her first indoor race since 2020. In Feb. 2020, she ran 8:25.70 for a then-American record. She is currently No. 3 on the all-time U.S. all-time list behind Elle St. Pierre (8:20.87) and Alicia Monson (8:25.05). Last September, she won the 5th Avenue Mile in 4:15. Schweizer is coming off a year in which she finished 9th in the Olympic 10,000m final and 10th in the Olympic 5000m final. She was eighth in the 5000m at the Diamond League final.
– One athlete to watch will be Ethiopia’s Tsige Gebreselama. The 24-year-old will be running her first indoor race since 2021. She ran 8:24.40 for 3000m at the Lausanne Diamond League. In 2024, she ran personal bests of 14:18.76 for 5000m and 29:48.34 for 10,000m.
– Katelyn Tuohy returns to the Millrose Games for the first time since she broke the collegiate record in 8:35.20 as a sophomore at NC State. The record may be under threat by Florida’s Hilda Olemomoi, who opened up her indoor season with a 14:52.84 at Boston University last month. She managed to get under former Gator Parker Valby’s 14:56.11 indoor record from the previous year but was just narrowly beaten by Alabama’s Doris Lemngole (14:52.57) in the race. Valby holds the Florida school record in 8:41.50 from her NCAA Indoor Championship victory last March.
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What Josette had to say on the CITIUS MAG Podcast:
Why she’s racing the 3000m: “In the fall when Dathan and I started back up with our meetings on what the year was going to look like, we decided that we weren't going to focus on indoor [season]. But if we were going to do one, Millrose would be the race to do because our team loves showing up for Millrose and [Dathan] knows I enjoy running the Millrose games. He said, ‘If we do it, you're going to run the 3000m.’ I said, ‘I'm on board with that!’
Going into my meeting with Dathan, I even had in my notes that if I do Millrose, I think I should do the 3000m because my training is so geared towards the 5K right now. Doing 10K and 5K training in the wintertime, it makes more sense right now to go for a 3000m. We were both on the same page about it, so I left the meeting feeling good about that.”
Her confidence heading into Millrose: “It would be so incredible to win at the Millrose Games. I’ve opened up my season there before and have been able to perform and run 4:20 in the mile, so I feel confident. We're about to start hitting 3000m pace in the next few weeks and just making sure we're ready to go.
It's not scary opening up there because I'm confident in the training that we're doing. It would mean a lot to come away with a Millrose win. I'm really excited to test myself in a 3000m. It was really fun running a 3000m last year at USAs and getting to run it at Worlds, but I was struggling with the start of an injury there. I feel like I haven't had the chance to run an honest 3K in a while where my body is feeling healthy. I'm excited to test myself at Millrose.
The crowd is unbelievable. That track is fast. It's going to be different running on a blue track this year–it's not red anymore–so that will be a little bit different. But I know that track is fast and with the energy that the crowd brings and the fields that show up at Millrose, it's going to be a great competition. You go to Millrose to win and you're racing to win. That's what brings the fast time. I'm going to put myself in a position to compete for the win and hopefully walk away really happy.”
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Chris Chavez
Chris Chavez launched CITIUS MAG in 2016 as a passion project while working full-time for Sports Illustrated. He covered the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and grew his humble blog into a multi-pronged media company. He completed all six World Marathon Majors and on Feb. 15th, 2025 finally broke five minutes for the mile.
