3 sub-9:00's at the same high school.

What kind of crack are you smoking. Of course there have been schools with more than 3 sub 9 guys.

Are you serious?

There are many H.S. who have had 3 sub-9 athletes, there are several high schools that have had dozens and even 2 on the same team.

wtf??????! wrote:

What kind of crack are you smoking. Of course there have been schools with more than 3 sub 9 guys.

This.

there's no way only one school had 3 sub-9 guys.

too lazy to search though

Almost 40 years ago, Hammond (Ind.) High had three boys under 9:00 (for two miles--that's worth, what, sub-8:56 for 3200?) in the same season. At one point that season, they were the #1, #2, and #4 HS times in the country.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1089953/

reed wrote:

there's no way only one school had 3 sub-9 guys.

too lazy to search though

I know. There have been lots. But dozens? That's absurd.

lease wrote:

Almost 40 years ago, Hammond (Ind.) High had three boys under 9:00 (for two miles--that's worth, what, sub-8:56 for 3200?) in the same season. At one point that season, they were the #1, #2, and #4 HS times in the country.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1089953/

Hammond High under coach candiano was amazing. They had three in the same season, but still only 3 ever.

Chapa, Keough, and Pinkowski all famously ran under 9:00 for two miles in ONE YEAR for Hammond High School in Indiana in 1975.

Looks like everybody else was chiming in at the same time. That was some trio.

Apologies--I got that a bit wrong. The slowest of the three was 8:56.x for two miles--call it sub-8:53 for 3200.

Hammond's training was famously brutal--so much so that, despite having the same three guys finish something like 1-2-5 in the State xc meet, Hammond did not win the team title. Their other guys were completely beaten up and it took them a very long time to get #4 and #5 across the line.

Plenty have had 3+.

Counts for WA teams:

6 Mead

4 North Central

3 Seattle Prep

plus 4 more schools that have had 2 under 9:00 for 3200m

yesstiles wrote:

reed wrote:

there's no way only one school had 3 sub-9 guys.

too lazy to search though

I know. There have been lots. But dozens? That's absurd.

Perhaps I misunderstood your question, I thought you were talking about in the history of a H.S. There have been very few school with 3 on the same team, but there are dozens of high schools that have produced sub-9 runners. There are at least 2 H.S.s right now with 3 athletes capable of running sub-9, but it usually does not happen because the athletes get split between different events and rarely will all get to run a fast 2-mile.

trackcoach wrote:

Are you serious?

There are many H.S. who have had 3 sub-9 athletes, there are several high schools that have had dozens and even 2 on the same team.

No. No high school in America has ever had 2 dozen (or more) boys run under 9:00 in all of history.

There have been schools with 2 in the same year (I think that is what you meant to write).

Only one school has ever had THREE in the same year.

trackcoach wrote:

Perhaps I misunderstood your question, I thought you were talking about in the history of a H.S. There have been very few school with 3 on the same team, but there are dozens of high schools that have produced sub-9 runners. There are at least 2 H.S.s right now with 3 athletes capable of running sub-9, but it usually does not happen because the athletes get split between different events and rarely will all get to run a fast 2-mile.

Yes I was talking about in the history of high school. No high school except for Hammond 1975 has had 3 on the same team.

And only a few have had more than 3 or more ever.

I believe South Eugene and Mead share the record at 6 in their high school history.

lease wrote:

Apologies--I got that a bit wrong. The slowest of the three was 8:56.x for two miles--call it sub-8:53 for 3200.

Hammond's training was famously brutal--so much so that, despite having the same three guys finish something like 1-2-5 in the State xc meet, Hammond did not win the team title. Their other guys were completely beaten up and it took them a very long time to get #4 and #5 across the line.

Brutal? what was their training specifically? (just curious)

There's a school in Iowa with 2 sub 9 3200 runners this year.

NotAustin18 wrote:

lease wrote:

Apologies--I got that a bit wrong. The slowest of the three was 8:56.x for two miles--call it sub-8:53 for 3200.

Hammond's training was famously brutal--so much so that, despite having the same three guys finish something like 1-2-5 in the State xc meet, Hammond did not win the team title. Their other guys were completely beaten up and it took them a very long time to get #4 and #5 across the line.

Brutal? what was their training specifically? (just curious)

I believe the coach's philosophy was that race day should be the easiest day of the week. As for specifics, I have no idea. But I guess he didn't believe in easy days.

probably arcadia with moussa and others, I believe jesuit in sacramento with mark mastalir, paul thomas and a few more

jesuit had 4 sub 9s actually^