INDIANAPOLIS - Alan Webb setting the U.S. boys' high school mile record in 2001 was honored by USA Track & Field on Thursday as the 23^rd greatest moment in U.S track and field in the last 25 years.

Webb set the U.S. men's high school mile record time of 3 minutes, 53.43 seconds in the Bowerman mile at the 2001 Prefontaine Classic at historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.

As an 18-year-old senior at South Lakes High School in Reston, Va., Webb broke Jim Ryun's 36-year-old high school mile record of 3:55.3 by nearly two seconds. Clicking off even split times, Webb ran at the back of the pack through three laps before using a blazing effort on the final lap to place fifth overall. His performance was the best time by an American on U.S. soil in the mile since Richie Boulet ran 3:53.26 at the 1998 Prefontaine Classic.

In January of 2001, Webb became the first high-schooler ever to run a sub-four minute mile indoors at the New Balance Games in New York City (3:59.86) and the first prep athlete to run a sub-four minute mile since Marty Liquori did it outdoors in 1967.

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