Episode #12: Kai Fisher

The Blue Water Running Podcast

Hello and welcome to episode #12 of The Blue Water Running Podcast! This podcast features and celebrates the accomplishments of high school and collegiate cross country and track and field athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan.
In this episode, we will talk with our first freshman guest, Kai Fisher of Memphis High School. Kai has personal bests of 10.96 seconds in the 100, 22.91 in the 200, and 53.05 in the 400, and high jumping 6 feet as an eighth grader.
Kai won the 100 and 200-meter dashes at the Algonac Friday Night Lights Invitational on May 10 and was the Greater Thumb League East Conference Champion in the 200 and 400 and runner-up in the 100 and high jump. At the Blue Water Meet of Champions, Kai took the title in the 200-meter dash in 23.5 seconds, also just narrowly missing a win in the 400, with a 53.05 to the winning 53.03 by Matthew Bacholzky of Almont. His 200 best of 22.91 at the Division 3 regional at Clawson hit the automatic qualifying time, earning him a trip to the state meet: he was the only freshman to make the finals or qualify in that event. He is the first sprinter from Memphis to ever qualify for the state finals in recent history: the only other runner was Tyler Carlson in 2021, who placed ninth in the 1600. He’s the only freshman ranked in the top 30 in Division 3 for the 200-meter dash. Kai’s accomplishments are all the more impressive when you realize he’s still just a ninth grader and Memphis High School does not even have a track.
We’ll catch up with Kai to discuss his goals for the state meet, what he hopes to accomplish, how he trains without lanes or starting lines, and what he hopes is next for him through the summer and as a sophomore.
Until next time, I’ll leave you with this quote by Noah Lyles, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic 200 meter bronze medalist, and a six-time World champion, winning the 100 meters, 200 meters, and 4 × 100 meter events at the 2023 World Championships, becoming the first man since Usain Bolt in 2015 to complete the sprint triple at a World Championships: “I don’t run for other people, I run for myself. As long as I enjoy it and I feel that I can be the best at something, I’m going to try my hardest. I don’t believe in doing something halfway, If I want to get into something I want to do all the research, do as much as I can with what I think I can do, keep going, and let myself figure out my own limit and not hearing what someone else thinks it is.”
Once again, thank you so much for tuning into today’s Blue Water Running podcast. I can’t wait to feature more cross country and track and field athletes from the Blue Water Area…stay tuned because it might just be YOU!
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