FHSU Athletics
EUGENE, Ore. – Former FHSU standout performer and current FHSU employee Brett Meyer saw his run at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials conclude in the semifinals of the 1,500-meter run on Saturday evening. Meyer was one of 38 individuals who ran a qualifying time this past year to compete in the trials.
The 1,500-meter run is broken up into three rounds at the Olympic Trials. Meyer advanced through the first round of competition on Friday evening (June 21) by posting the seventh-fastest time in the field. He ran 3:36.70, only three-tenths of a second off his personal best of 3:36.40 clocked less than two weeks earlier in preparation for the trials.
He was one of 25 runners to compete in Saturday's semifinal races. He finished 20th overall on Saturday with a time of 3:39.38. The top five in each heat from Saturday's semifinals, plus the top two times aside from the top five of each heat, moved on to Monday's final.
Meyer ran a sub-3:40 time in nine of his last 10 1,500-meter races going back to 2023. The 3:36.40 ran on June 9 in Portland, Ore. and the 3:36.70 ran on June 21 in the U.S. Olympic Trials are his two-fastest times ever in the event. He has now dipped below 3:37 three times, all since July of 2023.A few years ago, Meyer broke a 53-year old record on February 13, 2021 by running the fastest-ever indoor mile on Kansas soil with a time of 3:58.59 at the Ichabod Invitational in Topeka, Kan. on the campus of Washburn University. It was only the second sub-4-minute indoor mile ran ever in Kansas as it topped former U.S. Olympian and University of Kansas grad Jim Ryun's time of 3:58.8 on March 4, 1967 on the old dirt track that used to encircle the basketball court inside of Allen Fieldhouse at the University of Kansas.
Meyer was the 2019 NCAA Division II national champion in the outdoor 1,500 meters, which was the culmination of his six-time All-America performance career at FHSU. He now serves as an assistant coach for the Fort Hays State track and field team. Meyer is a Coordinator for Student Engagement at Fort Hays State University in the Fischli-Wills Center for Student Success. He is a two-time graduate from Fort Hays State University, earning a bachelor of science in Health and Human Performance in 2019 before completing a master's of science in the same department in 2021.