Sprinter Izzy Goudros of Toronto has had a sensational start to her 2025 indoor season at Harvard University. On Saturday, at the Battle in Beantown Indoor Classic at Boston University, Goudros set a school record in the women’s 300m, surpassing the previous mark set by 2024 Olympic champion Gabby Thomas.
Goudros won the women’s 300m with a personal best time of 37.34 seconds, which currently stands as the sixth-fastest time in the NCAA this season. Her time was just 10 one-hundredths of a second shy of Angela Bailey’s Canadian U23 record in the event, which has stood for 41 years.
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Facility Record ✔️#GoCrimson pic.twitter.com/Muy53jMzsI— Harvard T&F | XC (@HarvardTFXC) January 18, 2025
The school record she broke was set in 2017 by Thomas, the Paris Olympic 200m champion from Team USA. Thomas set the former Harvard 300m record of 37.47 seconds during her final collegiate indoor season, in 2017-2018. Ten months later, Thomas forwent her last year of collegiate eligibility and signed a professional contract with New Balance.
The women’s 300m record wasn’t the only mark Goudros set at the meet. Hours later, the 21-year-old played a pivotal role in helping the women’s 4x400m team set a school record of 3:33.95, running the second leg.
Goudros spent the last three years competing as a heptathlete at Harvard. Last year, at the NCAA Track and Field Championships, she finished 18th in the women’s heptathlon, with a cumulative score of 5,609 points. Her strongest events have always been the short sprints, so it will be interesting to see if she fully transitions to the 200m and 400m in what could be her final NCAA season.
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Izzy Goudros posts a 37.34 at the BU Track & Tennis Center, breaking the previous school record of 37.47 set by Gabby Thomas in 2017! #GoCrimson pic.twitter.com/e3UzhUCIMK
— Harvard T&F | XC (@HarvardTFXC) January 18, 2025
Goudros isn’t the only Canadian sprinter making noise in the NCAA this season. Dual citizen Alexia Schofield of Arizona State University holds the fourth-fastest women’s 300m time in the NCAA, so far, sprinting to a time of 37.03 seconds in College Station, Texas, two weeks ago.
The Canadian record for the distance is 36.94 seconds; it was set by two-time Canadian Olympian Kyra Constantine in 2022.
