Hillcrest student smashes 1,500m record

Coral Hays of Hillcrest School during inter-schools competition at Kasarani.

Coral Hays, a student at Hillcrest Secondary School, broke the International Schools’ record for the Open 1,500m by an astounding 23 seconds at Friday’s inter-schools competition at Kasarani Stadium.

Coral, who is still two years young for the Open category, represented Kenya at the Pentathlon World Cup in Cairo earlier this year and hopes to fly the Kenyan flag for the modern Pentathlon at the Rio 2016 Olympics, an event for which Hillcrest is becoming the regional training centre.