Birthday: 04/15/85 Mile PR: 3:51.82 - 2014
Metric Mile (1500m) PR: 3:34.26 - 2014
High School: Minnetonka HS
Hometown: Minnetonka, MN
College: Pomona College '07
Current Residence: Boulder, CO
Will Leer won the 2014 Morton Games Mile, clocking meet and personal records (3:51.82) as well as the fabled Wanamaker Mile at the 2014 NYRR Millrose Games on February 15 in a then PR 3:52.48.
Leer is a four-time NCAA Division III national champion including two Indoor Mile titles (2006-07), and the Minnesota native is the only Division III athlete to win both the 1500 meters and 5000 meters, which he accomplished at the 2007 Outdoor National Championships.
In March 2013, Leer won the USA Indoor Mile (3:58.79 - fastest Mile at altitude indoors; now #2 AT) and 3000m titles, his first national crowns, in Albuquerque, NM.
FUN FACT: In October 2016, Will married 2016 Olympian Aisha Praught who sports a 4:26.14 Mile PR, and together, they are the second fastest married couple for the Mile!
Top 10 talented track tandems span over a 30-plus year period
By Bring Back the Mile
The recent marriage of top Mile athletes Aisha Praught & Will Leer prompted BBTM to compile a list of the fastest married couples in the Mile. Sitting at the top of the talented tandems are three-time U.S....
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U.S. champ Miler Will Leer leads the way to your next PR
By Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Magazine
"There is nothing like standing on the start line of the 1500 meters. It always will be the blue ribbon event. It is the last day. The stadium is full. Everybody is watching. You feel like a...
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At 29, Will Leer is running better than ever and making a stop in his home state.
By Rachel Blount, Star Tribune
The Fu Manchu mustache has been around for several years now, long enough to become Will Leer’s signature look. The prodigious beard is a new addition to the Minnetonka native’s...
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Nick Willis: "It is important for the casual fan because people understand a sub-4 minute Mile. A 3:38 1500m doesn’t mean anything to most people."
By SPIKES Magazine
SPIKES sat down with two of the world's top Milers Nick Willis and Will Leer and Mile legend John Walker to find out why they...
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The Minnetonka Mile star split time between soccer and running in high school
By Liam Boylan-Pett, from Running Times
Who: Will Leer
High School: Minnetonka High School, Minnetonka, MN, Class of 2003
HS Personal Records:
400m: 50.8
800m: 1:54.6
1600m: 4:16.4
Current PRs:
1500m: 3:35.27...
More miles, more mustache and more maturity are leading Will Leer to impressive results
By Sarah Barker, Running Times
Is it the six weeks at altitude? Is it the introduction of 100-mile weeks? Is it simply maturity? Could it be that training solo better suits his style? Or is Will Leer's...
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A perfect storm of factors leads to a lack of fast 1500 meter times in 2013 for U.S. men
By Peter Gambaccini, Runner's World
As runners line up for the first round of the men’s 1500 meters on Thursday at the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Des Moines, none of them will have the "A"...
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By Kevin Sully, Daily Relay
Most twenty-somethings who relocate to Los Angeles do it to chase a dream. They don’t envision moving into their parents’ home or being in bed before 10:00 p.m. Then again, most twenty somethings aren’t elite athletes trying to revitalize their career.
For Will...
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2010 and 2011 Relays champions Peter van der Westuizen and Will Leer return for another shot at sub-4-minute mile at Memorial Stadium
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Eight of the nation’s top milers have agreed to race in the prestigious Glenn Cunningham Mile at the 2012 Kansas Relays it was announced by KU...
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By Down the Backstrecth
Will Leer went to Albuquerque to battle Bernard Lagat and returned a double USA champion. The Minnetonka grad had won NCAA DIII Championships, but the 3000m/Mile double at the USA Indoor Championships was his first, and second national titles. The double prompted one...
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16-year-old defeats field of pros in tactical race; Leer clocks fastest indoor Mile at altitude
By Peter Gambaccini, Runner's World
Against a field of pros at the USA Indoor Championships in Albuquerque on Sunday, 16-year-old Mary Cain elected to “keep it slow and kick it out” in the women’s...
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Wynne, Frazier high school Mile champions; NBIGP kick-off to the Bring Back the Mile Tour 2013
By Jim Gerweck, The Mile wire
BOSTON – (February 2, 2013) – When it comes to the Mile, the 2013 indoor track season has been thus far quite thrilling with Mary Cain’s U.S. high school record and...
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