Women's Half Marathon: Dominy defends, Day charges from Alaska, Lang delivers for Memphis

• Madisyn Dominy wins in 1:19:50 (6:05/mi), defending her 2024 title (1:21:43) and trimming 1:53 off her winning time.
• Bre Day (Eagle River, AK) runs the 2nd-fastest women's 5K→10K split to climb from 3rd to 2nd, finishing in 1:24:30 — matching the 2023 women's winning time to the second.
• Laura Lang (Memphis, TN) closes in 1:25:38 for 3rd, moving up from 4th place at halfway to give the home crowd a local podium.
• A razor-thin 18-second gap separates 3rd through 5th place (Lang 1:25:38, Nadeau 1:25:56, Hill 1:26:09) — three women, three different stories of how they got there.

On a raw, misty Memphis morning — 35°F with near-total humidity off the start on B.B. King Blvd. — Madisyn Dominy wasted no time making her intentions clear. She led from wire to wire, holding the top spot at every checkpoint, and posted the fastest women's split in the 5K→10K segment. Her 1:19:50 finish not only repeats her 2024 championship but improves on it by nearly two minutes, a sharper, more commanding performance across the same course.

Behind her, the race's most compelling subplot belonged to Bre Day, who made the trip from Eagle River, Alaska pay off. Running the second-fastest women's 5K→10K split, Day moved from 3rd to 2nd by the halfway mark and never looked back, crossing in 1:24:30. That's a 4:40 gap to Dominy — and a finishing time that would have won this race outright in 2023.

The battle for the final podium spot was a genuine tug-of-war. Genevieve Nadeau (Memphis) held 2nd early before slipping to 4th by the back half, ultimately finishing 4th in 1:25:56. Laura Lang, also of Memphis, was the one who passed her — running the 3rd-fastest women's 5K→10K split and moving steadily from 4th to 3rd, where she held on to finish in 1:25:38. Jackie Hill (Ripley, MS) rounded out the top five in 1:26:09, never wavering from 5th place across every checkpoint — a model of disciplined, even pacing in difficult conditions.

The women's field at this year's St. Jude Half stretched to 3,868 finishers, with Caitlin Schwark (Chicago) taking 6th in 1:26:30 and Gretchen Price (Madison) 7th in 1:27:35. Deep into the results, a pair of Memphis runners — Carly Sternberg and Brittney Tucker — both clocked 1:33:46 to share 19th and 20th in the listed field, a fitting bookend to a race that brought thousands to the streets for one of running's most meaningful mornings.