Hunter beats Fisher over 1500m at USA Juniors

Top 3 make the team?

There isn't a team to make here

This isn't the qualifier for world juniors?

AT wrote:

There isn't a team to make here

Looks like Fisher underestimated how may guys were coming on the backstretch of that last lap and should have kicked harder there to avoid being boxed and having to go outside.

Also is there not a World Juniors this year? Just Pan Am?

AT wrote:

There isn't a team to make here

Every year there is a National Junior team to make.

Typical moronic Americans - can't be anyone else as NO ONE is that much out of touch.

2 make the team - everyone knows that.

This meet qualifies athletes for Pan Am Jnrs (Edmonton) at end of July.

Idiotic announcer calls it Jnr Pan AM worlds. No such event. Why are people so out of touch with the sport? Perhaps too involved with what AlSal may or may not be doing. No wonder people see Americans as being so insular - don't know anything outside of NCAA's or state meets or other irrelevancies. Pathetic.

AT wrote:

There isn't a team to make here

Top 2 make the US team for Pan-Am Juniors.

He simply looked like he didn't have the legs on the homestretch.

Fisher should gave joined Maton in the 5,000, when he saw that both Haney and Hunter were racing the 1500m.

He would have surely made the 5,000m team.

No questions at all you bone head.

Slow tactical race and as such anything can happen and anyone can win.

Haney was the class of the field today. It was a hundred degrees so on the track it must have been much hotter. People react to heat in different ways.

Hunter ran great for second and it looked like Fisher got tripped up through the last corner and lost some momentum. Who knows without the trip up Fisher probably would have been second. That is an objective observation but I know there will be people who will disagree - no problem.

Another Michigan runner Wetzel placed fourth. Long season for all of these guys. Except maybe for Haney who said in an interview he was sick for three weeks after indoors. That time off May have helped for the latter part of the season.

What a great HS class of runners this year. It has been a pleasure to watch them race.

I feel like I have been Hunter's hype man for the past couple months. He showed a lot in his ability to hang with a long kick.

Haney looked solid, I'll admit I hadn't seen him run much this year since there was so much depth on the Oregon squad.

Fisher had another amazing run, but I stand by my assertion that he is not the 4th best HS runner ever.

Oh? wrote:

AT wrote:

There isn't a team to make here

Top 2 make the US team for Pan-Am Juniors.

Top 2 make the US team for Pan-Am World Juniors

Yes, I'm an absolute moron for not paying all that much attention and at no point ever hearing that it was a qualifier for Pan Am juniors. Such an idiot I am for not knowing things I'm not told. You don't have many friends, do you?

Oh? wrote:

AT wrote:

There isn't a team to make here

Top 2 make the US team for Pan-Am Juniors.

So this is good for Stanford then. You know every NCAA xc coach wanted Fisher to make the team so he wouldn't start training until August.

Now he can rest up and get ready for xc. I think these losses have been good for him.

rojo wrote:

Oh? wrote:

Top 2 make the US team for Pan-Am Juniors.

So this is good for Stanford then. You know every NCAA xc coach wanted Fisher to make the team so he wouldn't start training until August.

Now he can rest up and get ready for xc. I think these losses have been good for him.

Remains to be seen if Stanford will good for him. . . at least as a runner

AT wrote:

Yes, I'm an absolute moron for not paying all that much attention and at no point ever hearing that it was a qualifier for Pan Am juniors. Such an idiot I am for not knowing things I'm not told. You don't have many friends, do you?

So someone was being a dick and called you an idiot for answering someone's question with the wrong answer, then you reply back as a dick saying "no one told you." If you don't know the answer to someone's question then why'd you answer it? This is something easy to look up. It doesn't make you an idiot, but you are acting like a dick to someone else acting like a dick. Personally, I wouldn't be friends with either of you, but neither of you should care because I'm a horrible friend.

We've got interviews with Fisher and Haney here (Fisher coming):

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/06/blake-haney-takes-down-andrew-hunter-grant-fisher-to-win-usa-jr-1500-title/

Jonathan Gault wrote:

We've got interviews with Fisher and Haney here (Fisher coming):

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/06/blake-haney-takes-down-andrew-hunter-grant-fisher-to-win-usa-jr-1500-title/

At least he dipped under the time he can run a mile in.