The boys 500m defending champion is returning to the VA Showcase in January -- but this time, he has experience competing on the world's biggest track and field stage underneath his belt.

Bullis School (MD) junior Quincy Wilson will toe the line yet again at the Virginia Beach Sports Center for the 2025 installment of the VA Showcase held from Jan. 17-19, just six months removed from sporting the U.S. kit at the Paris Olympic Games and winning a gold medal in the men's 4x400m.

Wilson, who ran a U.S. No. 2 all-time 1:01.27 to win the 500m in Virginia Beach last indoor season, will return to the two-and-a-half-lap race at the VA Showcase in just over two weeks.

While the distance he's racing may remain the same, Wilson's level of stardom certainly isn't. Sure, when Wilson clocked that all-time mark to win the 500m to win the VA Showcase last January, he was already a big name among followers of high school track and field.

But it's safe to say that now, the name 'Quincy Wilson' is known by many well beyond the prep space.

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In the year since his historic VA Showcase showing, Wilson has catapulted into not just the high school spotlight, but also to center stage of U.S. track and field.

Wilson took the country by storm over the summer, competing at the U.S. Olympic Trials in the men's 400m and finishing sixth in the final at just 16 years old. Over the course of the Trials, Wilson ran under 45 seconds in the 400m three times -- 44.59, 44.66 and 44.94 -- and reset the high school national record and World U18 record in the process. 

Team USA selected Wilson for the 4x400m relay pool for the Paris Olympics based on his sixth-place finish in Eugene.

But even before Wilson hopped on the plane to Paris, he toed the line for one more open 400m at the PUMA American Track League's Holloway Pro Classic in Gainesville, winning the event and lowering his U.S. high school all-time record and U18 world record to an astonishing 44.20.

In Paris, Wilson saw action in the preliminary round of the men's 4x400m, making him the youngest male track and field U.S. Olympian ever. Team USA would go on to win gold in the event, and Wilson earned a medal for racing in the prelims.

So how does one transition from running against some of the world's best pros to returning to high school? Competing for the elite Bullis School (MD), though, the focus shifts for the now-junior Wilson to competing, winning and potentially setting records in the process.

If there's anything we know about Wilson, it's that he doesn't settle for anything less than his best. So surely, knowing that he came within just two-hundredths of a second of Will Sumner's 1:01.25 U.S. high school 500m national record at last year's VA Showcase must be a motivating factor for him coming into this year's event.

And don't be surprised to see Wilson be part of a relay team going after a big performance, too. Bullis School Coach Joe Lee has put together plenty of record-breaking teams during his tenure, including last year's boys SMR national record squad that included Wilson. That SMR team logged a 3:23.86 effort at the VA Showcase to set the U.S. high school No. 1 all-time mark.

We've already seen Wilson get off to a quick start this season, clocking 1:17.19 for 600m at the U.S. Marine Corps Holiday Classic over the weekend, which stands as the second-fastest mark at the distance in U.S. high school history. He did that, too, after running a controlled 2:01 800m split on a SMR team for Bullis School at the Ocean Breeze Holiday Festival.

With that in mind, perhaps there's no telling what Wilson could do on the track in Virginia Beach in two-and-a-half weeks. Yet, don't be surprised if we see another performance for the high school record books from the 16-year-old Olympian.

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