Add Michael Slagowski of Rocky Mountain High (Meridian, Idaho) to an elite club of high school runners.

Slagowski became the ninth runner all-time to break four minutes in the mile when he ran 3:59.53 in the Jesuit Twilight Relays in Portland, Ore. He broke his own personal best of 4:05.71 by six seconds.

“It wasn’t really on my mind to do it this meet until I ran the 4:05 at Pasco two weeks ago,” he told OregonLive.com. “I was hoping to get into a pro race later in the season, and have a good shot at doing it there. But after I ran that 4:05, I just thought for sure that I could put up a fight for it here.”

The Penn State-bound Slagowski is the fourth to accomplish the feat in the last 12 months, an amazing statistics when you consider it was not done from 1967 until 2001 when Alan Webb set the national high school record of 3:53.43.

He already had the best time this year in the nation in the 800 meters and the 1,600 before adding the mile to his list.

“I was really confident,” Slagowski told OregonLive.com. “I hadn’t been feeling very good a few days earlier, but today I woke up and I was feeling great. … I could tell by my workouts that I could at least get really close. That was definitely my goal.”