It might be mind boggling but Yorks is not running the mile at the national meet. He feels it would compromise the Huskies medley team he runs with, which has a shot at a national title.
On Tuesday, Washington track and field coach Greg Metcalf did something so extraordinary that he had he had to call a friend to share it.
Sitting in his office at the Conibear Shellhouse, Metcalf took a deep breath and scratched Huskies senior Izaic Yorks from the mile run at next weekend’s NCAA Indoor Championship in Birmingham, Ala.
Now, that doesn’t seem like such a big deal — until you consider that just three days earlier, Yorks had set the track world on its ear by running the fastest collegiate indoor mile by an American in history.