...how? This 8th grade kid has PRs of 10.51, 21.19 and after his third place finish at NBN this weekend, 46.44. I must have missed a thread because I can't imagine this isn't making HUGE news.
...how? This 8th grade kid has PRs of 10.51, 21.19 and after his third place finish at NBN this weekend, 46.44. I must have missed a thread because I can't imagine this isn't making HUGE news.
The Phenom wrote:
...how? This 8th grade kid has PRs of 10.51, 21.19 and after his third place finish at NBN this weekend, 46.44. I must have missed a thread because I can't imagine this isn't making HUGE news.
Incredible time. As top Texas prep as a senior Jeremy Wariner barely bettered this with like a 46.12.
He's 15 and only turned is full attention to track in the past year or so.
That is cray cray talent, yo!
Place Name Affiliation Time Heat (Pl)
1 Josephus Lyles TC Williams Tc-Va 45.99 3 (1)
2 Will Allen Paul Laurence Dunbar Tc-O 46.38 3 (2)
3 Tyrese Cooper Miami Gardens Xpress T+F 46.44 3 (3)
4 Izaiah Brown Amsterdam Tc-Ny 46.60 3 (4)
5 Brandon Cachon Quarter Mile Xpress-FL 46.76 3 (5)
6 Nathanaiel Huggins Opelika Tc-Al 46.80 3 (6)
7 Darnell Pratt Una-Md-Ellicott_-Heydrick 47.70 1 (1)
8 Dominic Smith St. Johns Striders-FL 47.93 2 (1)
This is comparable to a 14-yr-old girl running 52.3. With slight improvement she night win NCAAs at 16.
RQ wrote:
He's 15 and only turned is full attention to track in the past year or so.
Born 2000, so reasonably normal aged. Incredible.
Ran 48.69 last summer at Aau club national as a 14yo, maybe faster elsewhere, I didn't look.
Recorder file photo Amsterdam's Izaiah Brown, left, sprints to win the Division I boys 400-meter dash June 12 at the state championship meet in Albany.
Amsterdam's Brown places fourth in 400 at New Balance Nationals
Monday, June 22, 2015 - Updated: 10:21 AM
GREENSBORO, N.C. --Amsterdam senior Izaiah Brown concluded his high school running career Sunday afternoon with a fourth-place finish in the 400-meter dash at the New Balance Nationals Outdoor championships at North Carolina A&T University.
Brown, a three-time New York state champion in the event, set a blistering pace alongside defending national champion Josephus Lyles of Virginia. The two were even through most of the race, with Brown pulling out a narrow lead midway through the homestretch, but Lyles surged in the final 50 meters to repeat his national title with a win in 45.99 seconds.
In the final meters, Will Allen of Kentucky and eighth-grader Tyrese Cooper of Florida also surged to pass Brown. The AHS star crossed the line in 46.60 seconds -- 0.01 seconds faster than the effort that earned him third place at New Balance Nationals in 2014.
Brown's time of 46.60 seconds was the second-fastest of his career, behind only the sizzling 46.40 he ran June 12 in the Division 1 state championship race in Albany. It was Brown's third time earning a top-four finish at nationals. He was also third in the 400 at last year's outdoor championships, second -- ahead of Lyles -- at this winter's indoor nationals in New York.
The Amsterdam Track Club --teams run unattached from their schools at New Balance Nationals -- also sent its 4x400-meter relay team to Greensboro, though with the heats of the relay and the 400-meter dash scheduled within 90 minutes of each other, Brown sat out the relay with Omahri Sturdivant, David Graveley, Gabe Fernandez and Edgar Maldonado carrying the baton.
Running in the third of four heats, Amsterdam was sitting mid-pack after legs from Sturdivant and Graveley, but Amsterdam coach Kevin Wilary said Fernandez pulled his hip flexor around 100 meters into the third leg and the team fell off the pace, eventually finishing in 3 minutes, 29.61 seconds and finishing in 24th place overall.
-- Staff report
http://www.recordernews.com/premium/06222015_nationals
100 Meter Dash
2015 Outdoor10.51
2014 Outdoor10.71
2013 Outdoor11.64
200 Meter Dash
2015 Outdoor21.19
2014 Outdoor21.81
2013 Outdoor24.15
400 Meter Dash
2015 Outdoor46.44
2014 Outdoor48.69
2013 Outdoor52.27
http://fl.milesplit.com/athletes/insider/3508719-tyrese-cooper
Who?
8th graders in Florida wrote:
100 Meter Dash
2015 Outdoor10.51
2014 Outdoor10.71
2013 Outdoor11.64
200 Meter Dash
2015 Outdoor21.19
2014 Outdoor21.81
2013 Outdoor24.15
400 Meter Dash
2015 Outdoor46.44
2014 Outdoor48.69
2013 Outdoor52.27
http://fl.milesplit.com/athletes/insider/3508719-tyrese-cooperhttp://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=5775087
10.51/21.19/46.44 for Tyrese Cooper in 8th grade (someone elsewhere said he was 15 already--he should be 14)
I can't find records by class. The soph class record for 400m, though, is supposed to be Obea Moore's 45.15. But for the youth track age group records, which in some cases are definitely not the real records but only what was registered in certain competitions, and not updated either, they read:
Age 13-14:
200m 21.83 Bryce Love
400m 47.16 Obea Moore
Age 15-16:
100m 10.54
200m 21.09 Amir Rasul
400m 45.99 Obea Moore (but elsewhere it lists him at 45.15 as a soph)
(Age 17-18 it lists Moore again, this time at 45.58, and Darrell Robinson holds the senior record at 44.69)
Clearly this kid Tyrese Cooper, whether his age is 13, 14, or 15, is very, very good, and depending on his age, might be either close to or now have his age group/class records.
Video:
http://fl.milesplit.com/videos/insider/91444
Article:
http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/united-states/tyrese-cooper-291935#progression
200 METRES
SEASON MARK PERFORMANCE WIND PLACE DATE
2015 21.60 +0.6 Orlando, FL 23 MAY
400 METRES
SEASON MARK PERFORMANCE PLACE DATE
2015 46.44 Greensboro, NC 21 JUN
Competition in Jamaica:
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport/TAYLOR-IFIC--_18532065
Calabar’s Christopher Taylor comes off the curve during his blistering 45.69-second run in the Under-18 400-metre event on day two of the JAAA National Carifta Trials at the National Stadium
Competition in Bahamas: Steven Gardiner CLOCKS BAHAMIAN 400M RECORD OF 44.27
http://www.iaaf.org/news/report/steven-gardiner-bahamas-championships
He could be 15. It's not unusual for an entering freshman to be 15 in Florida. I wouldn't say it's common but a kid could start school late with a June birthday or he could have repeated a year.
Still fantastic.
Tyrese Cooper is a 15 yr old 8th grader. He is apparently a year behind in school. When he was 14 years old last year (2014) he had the second fastest time in the country. Justin Long was the fastest 14 yr old 400 meter dash runner in the country (48.3) and he beat Tyrese Cooper at AAU junior Olympics(48.6). Tyrese Cooper is a great runner, however, he should have been running with Freshman in high school this year, not Middle Schoolers based on his age. Whatever his age, these times are fantastic. He was not faster than Obea Moore's national record for 14 yr olds of 47.17. He did not break Trinidad's Kimani James's record for 14 yr olds with a time of 46.96 when he was 14.
Kirani James is from Grenada.
Tyrese Cooper is a year behind in school. He was born in March of 2000 and should have been in the freshman class when he started his 8th grade year at age 14. If he was in the correct grade for his age (10th grade) he would not have any of the freshman national class records that he has been given. He was 15 yrs old in the 8th grade. If he was in his correct grade (the sophomore year)for his age, he would not have the indoor freshman national records in the 200 or 400 meter dash indoors, Neither would not have the freshman nationals records in the 200 and 400m dash outdoors. His outdoor 200 meter dash time as a 16 yr old sophomore would give him the sophomore national record.
"He has been given a 1 year handicap to break national class records strictly as a result of being a year behind in school." Tyrese Cooper is now a 16 yr old freshman. The runners who are really freshman (who start the year at age 14) do not get to come back when they are Tyrese Cooper's age to try for freshman national records because they will be in their sophomore and junior years when they turn 16.
Do you think it is fair to give much older athletes a 1 yr handicap to break national class records? Quite frankly, this is just wrong.
Read more:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6986105&page=1#ixzz4H0WlGcnB
Wendy Ardmore wrote:
Do you think it is fair to give much older athletes a 1 yr handicap to break national class records? Quite frankly, this is just wrong.
What's wrong is you bumping old threads and pasting the same message into every post.
""Born 2000, so reasonably normal aged. Incredible.
""Most 8th graders start the year at 13 and end at 14. Tyrese Cooper was already 15 in the 8th grade. He was born in March of 2000, but early in the year. He should have been in the 9th grade when he ran 46.44 at New Balance.
To answer your question, age 15 is too old to be in the 8th grade. He should not be 15 until the end of this freshman year,.
He shouldn't be in the 8th grade at all based on his age. He should have been in the 9th grade when he ran 46.44 in the 400 meter dash at New Balance. Also, this 46.44 at age 15 would not be a freshman national record if he were in the correct grade for his age.
The downside of being so fast, so young, is you don't have much room to improve. Probably less than 3 seconds worth of improvement left for him.
fvkcudsk wrote:
The downside of being so fast, so young, is you don't have much room to improve. Probably less than 3 seconds worth of improvement left for him.
Well he ran 45.23 last week, the World Record is 43.18, so probably improving LESS than 3 seconds looks safe, if he improves 2.06 seconds he would breal the World Record, 2.5 seconds he would smash it. lol