Five Hoosiers Set to Compete at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Marathon in Florida

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The 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Marathon will be held this Saturday (3-Feb) in Orlando, Florida.

Five (5) members of USATF Indiana (3 men and 2 women) are entered in the event that will begin at 10:10 AM ET. The event will be broadcast live on Peacock TV beginning at 10 AM ET.  A total of 215 men and 165 women are entered.

The full list of Indiana entries with links to their bios can be found here.

In the men's race, the Indiana athletes scheduled to take the line on Saturday are Caleb Kerr, 30, of Zionsville, Jesse Davis, 42, (Indiana Elite Athletic Club, Omaha, NE), and Jakob Kintzele, 24 of Chesterton.

Kerr comes into the race with a career best time of 2:14:50; run at the 2022 Grandma's Marathon in Minnestora. This will be his second Olympic Trials (2020).

Davis is one of only ten masters (age 40+) entered in the Trials. He ran his qualifying time of 2:17:30 at the Indianapolis Momumental Marathon in November; qualifying for this third Olympic Trials (2012, 2016).

At just 24 years of age, Kintzele is one of the youngest athletes that will be toeing the line in Orlando. Orginally from Chesterton, IN, Kintzele is a 2022 graduate of Princeton University where he set the school 10,000m record running 28:47. In just his first marathon (2022 California International) he ran 2:17:47 to qualify for the Trials. In his second marathon he lowered his career best to 2:17:38.

In the women's race, Anna Heiny, 26, of Carmel and  Lucy Dobbs, 27, of Indianapolis and will be among the 165 women to toe the line.

Heiny, the 2023 USATF Indiana Athlete of the Year, qualified for the Trials last April running 2:31:00 at the Boston Marathon. She is a five time Indiana state champion and two-time winner of the prestigious Foot Locker Championships (2012, 2014).

On her fourth and final attempt, Dobbs qualified for the Trials running 2:36:33 at the Indianapolis Momumental Marathon in November.

This will be the first Olympic Trials for both Heiny and Dobbs.