The 2025 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix is slated for Sunday, Feb. 2, in Boston, Massachusetts. This year, the meet has something special in store with some of the best athletes in the world set to descend on Beantown for the meeting.

Stars like Grant Fisher, Graham Blanks, Parker Valby, Noah Lyles and Emma Coburn will headline the action throughout the day. Every race has storylines to watch, but there are a few that we've zeroed in on.

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1. Graham Blanks and Parker Valby On Parallel Paths

The two former-NCAA stars will make their professional debuts at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix on Sunday. In the tail half of 2024, the two young talents signed professional contracts with New Balance -- and the parallels don't stop there.

They both train in Boston, Blanks under Harvard coach Alex Gibby and Valby under New Balance Boston coach Mark Coogan.

The two are the same age as well. They both graduated high school in 2020 and were both standouts in the Southeast, with Blanks in Georgia and Valby in Florida. Their schools were less than 500 miles away.

In college, they both rose to stardom and became household names for those familiar with American distance running. They collected collegiate records and NCAA Championships like trading cards, and in 2024 they both competed at the U.S. Olympic Trials en route to earning spots on Team USA.

On the Olympic stage they shined and both made the Olympic final. So, they aren't just the future of American distance running -- they are American distance running. 

Blanks is scheduled to run the 1,500m on Sunday, though it is not his traditional event. In December, he ran the second fastest time in NCAA 5k history, a 12:59.89.

Valby will run the 3,000m. She has run 8:41.50 over the distance, and will be in contention despite the star-studded field. The 3,000m will feature Georgia Bell, Emma Coburn, Elise Cranny, Sintayehu Vissa and Jessica Hull. The quality of field is reminiscent of a championship final.

2. Emma Coburn Is Back, Slated To Run 3,000m

When Emma Coburn broke her ankle at the 2024 Diamond League meeting in Shanghai, her Paris Olympic journey was killed. She fractured her medial malleolus with a water-pit misstep, and tore some ligaments in the process.

At 33 years old, some questioned whether it would also mark the end of her on-track career. Some speculated that she may move to road-running or hang the spikes up altogether.

But in 2025, Emma Coburn is back with a vengeance.

On Jan.10 at altitude, Coburn posted a 4:33.29 mile at the Potts Invitational in Boulder, Colorado. With that, she quelled a lot of the buzz.

The now-34-year-old also welcomed a child in October. That has set its own challenges, but there doesn't seem to be much that Coburn can't handle. The New Balance Grand Prix will be another prove-it opportunity the veteran, who has little left to prove in the professional world.

3. Olympic Champ Vs. Olympic Champ -- Noah Lyles and Marcell Jacobs

The 2024 Olympic 100m gold medalist will take on the 2021 Olympic 100m gold medalist in the Ralph Mann Memorial Men's 60m.

The two men in question are Noah Lyles and Marcell Jacobs

For Jacobs, there is a bit of redemption on the table. He had a down year in 2024 and finished fifth in the 100m Olympic final.

On the contrary, Lyles was the star of the show. He took home the 100m gold and ran a personal best 9.79 at the Olympic Games. He recently opened his season at the RADD Invitational. There, he ran a 6.62 60m.

Some other notable names to watch include Trayvon Bromell (USA), Zharnel Hughes (GBR) and Udodi Onwuzurike (NGR).

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