Congrats to Caleb.
So Big Bear High has had 3 runners go sub-9 for 3200. How many other high schools can claim such an accolade?
Congrats to Caleb.
So Big Bear High has had 3 runners go sub-9 for 3200. How many other high schools can claim such an accolade?
Distant relation to Alan Webb?
rarified air wrote:
Congrats to Caleb.
So Big Bear High has had 3 runners go sub-9 for 3200. How many other high schools can claim such an accolade?
Probably plenty. More impressively two schools have had 3 sub 9:00y runners on their team at the same time - Hammond in Indiana when Chapa was there and Northport from NY last year had 3 guys dip under in the same race.
The rival school when I was in high school has at this point had 3 at least 3 sub 9 3200m that I can think of.
I'd bet in California, Texas and other highly populated areas where running is popular and competitive there are plenty of schools
Forgot to mention a college teammate of mine ran 9:00 for the 3200 in high school and had 3 sub-9 teammates (but for 3200m, not for 2 miles).
Wasn't there a team a couple years ago that had three guys sub 9 in the SAME RACE?
Not that rare, but great job to Caleb!
Bishop Kenny high school in Jacksonville had two guys under 9:00 for 3200m in the same race a few years ago
WEBB IS HERE BABY!
I think the point the OP is making is that Ryan Hall doesn't even have the record at his high school, where he became a phenom. What are the chances?
Big Bear High School didn't even have a track/xc team before Hall came on the scene, despite being a very old school. Also, it is an isolated and poor public school in a rural low-income community, with less than 800 student enrollment. 75% of the school population lives below the poverty line. Their team is very small and disadvantaged, in a welfare community obsessed with football.
Having 3 or more kids under 9:00 ever at a given high school is in fact very rare, despite what others have said here. California has a whopping 1300 high schools, but only six of them have ever had 3 kids break 9:00. Exactly how is that not classified as rare?
Hammond, Indiana
The decline of Ryan Hall continues.
Flo'da boy wrote:
Bishop Kenny high school in Jacksonville had two guys under 9:00 for 3200m in the same race a few years ago
Actually, only Colin Barker (8:56.80) broke 9 minutes for the 3200m that year on his team. His teammate Michael Wallace went 9:02.22 in the same race though. Both impressive times but BK didn't have two guys go under 9 but they were damn close.
Who?
Rudy Chapa, Carey Pinkowski, and Tim Keough all ran sub 9:00 on the same high school team in the same year (1975). Never been done before or since. Here is the SI article from 1975.
http://www.si.com/vault/1975/06/16/606646/three-into-2-miles-who-go-go-go
Runn262 wrote:
Rudy Chapa, Carey Pinkowski, and Tim Keough all ran sub 9:00 on the same high school team in the same year (1975). Never been done before or since. Here is the SI article from 1975.
http://www.si.com/vault/1975/06/16/606646/three-into-2-miles-who-go-go-go
That has already been mentioned, and it's also not true that they're the only team to accomplish it. It was done again last year, in the same race. As I already said.
Pretty cool stat. where is Caleb Webb going to go to college?
rarified air wrote:
Congrats to Caleb.
So Big Bear High has had 3 runners go sub-9 for 3200. How many other high schools can claim such an accolade?
re: "3 runners go sub-9 for 3200. How many other high schools can claim such an accolade?"
I am sure there are quite a few, I coached at a high school that had 3, two of which I coached.
that's pretty fast. do you have a source? track and field news' prep lists seem to go against your hypothesis.
sorry you're right about that. I'm chalking that up to monday morningitis. my apologies. geez that's a fast school
Dexter, MI
TrackCoach wrote:I am sure there are quite a few, I coached at a high school that had 3, two of which I coached.
IIRC, there have been exactly 20 schools nationally that have had 3 runners go sub-9 for 3200m. Out of 20,000 high schools, that's pretty unique.
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