John Teeters, fastest white American in 2016??

Tread tightly my friend the moderators of this forum are always looking for closeted Storm Front members. Meanwhile it took years of hardcore racist trolling before lpd was banned for being the reverse.

9.9 may not get you on the team. rodgers, gay, bromell, gatlin are just the big names. there are many more 9.9 guys.

Has he ever done anything at a national meet?

He always seems to either false start or not race because of injury

2nd at indoor nationals.

for the record, teeters hasn't false started at any major championships! & I believe he was second multiple times in the 100-200m to the great young Star brommell @ Big XII championships. Beat Degrasse twice @ the regional championships in Austin, before an injury that kept him from NCAA outdoors. his stats 4x6.54 & 10x under 6.60 with a PR of 6.52 and 10.07 legal and multiple under 10 windy races. Not many white americans have done that since the great kevin little.Hope he stays healthy great future.

Tied for second in the world. Using some slightly different methods in terms of hos periodization scheme this year. He is also cutting unnecessary weight to be lighter for 100 outdoors. If he stays healthy it will be hard for anyone left in college to touch him I am excited to see his progress.

He's a quick guy, he's shown that indoors especially - will he try qualify for world indoors? Cos he has a likely chance in all honesty and also I hope he tries for the Olympics #2016bobbymorrow

The USATF Indoor Championships and the NCAA Indoor Championships are on the same weekend. You can't do both. And Teeters is not tied for 2nd in the world now. He's tied for 6th with Bromell, and also tied for 2nd with Bromell for fastest American behind Mike Rodgers.

Teeters is NOT head and shoulders ahead in the NCAA. He is tied for first and there are 4 people within 0.02 and about 10 within striking range. I doubt that Teeters or any of the other NCAA sprinters are going to compete in USATF Indoors.

reed wrote:

9.9 may not get you on the team. rodgers, gay, bromell, gatlin are just the big names. there are many more 9.9 guys.

If by many more you mean 4 or 5 then you'd be correct

There were 7 guys last year that ran 9.99 and faster with legal wind. Teeters wasn't one of them. He will likely need to run sub 9.90 to even have a chance at the 4X100, and by that I mean he has to run faster than Christian Lemaitre ever has.

Coach d with all due respect when I posted he was second in the world. Obviously, after a large number of pros have been running they have made serious headway in the rankings.

coach d wrote:

run faster than Christian Lemaitre ever has.

His name is actually Christophe Lemaitre.

Ryry wrote:

Coach d with all due respect when I posted he was second in the world. Obviously, after a large number of pros have been running they have made serious headway in the rankings.

You did claim that if healthy it will be hard for anyone in college to touch him, and that is not true, and someone claiming to be knowledgeable about sprinting should know better than that. He is (only) tied for the lead in tfrrs, so he could win NCAAs this year, or he could not score a point in the finals. The competition is that good. He will certainly be the fastest caucasian, assuming he makes the finals.

It should also be noted that Andre De Grasse ran in Millrose 0.01 slower as a pro than he ran at Nebraska in early February last year as a collegiate. His new coaches have some big shoes to fill, and thus far they are not filling them.

LOL - A guy runs 0.01 slower than the year before and you say it shows the current coaching is suspect. Come on man, that's bogus. I agree DeGrasse is rolling the dice by changing what has worked, but the Altis group is very good at what they do. I'm guessing AC pushed him in that direction based on past results Altis has achieved with Canadian and British athletes. Interesting experiment in an Olympic year. I'm unclear on the rules regarding a pro continuing to work with their college coach - must be OK since Bromell is still training under Ford at Baylor. So maybe DeGrasse should have continued training at USC, that would have been the safe move. When you grab for the brass ring, sometimes you get it and other times you fall off the horse.

So why did John Teeters fail to show up at USATF Nationals last year? Was he injured? Some other reason?

Hey Coach D, do you know why Trayvon Bromell didn't start his 60m heat in Glasgow this weekend? Kind of dumb to make the fastest men in the world go through a round just so they could include some of their local guys. Maybe Bromell balked at that?

Does he dope?

This guy is greased lightning. Just viewed his 6.54 60m at the Razorback Invite (posted on his twitter feed https://twitter.com/john_teeters). Wasn't able to slow down the video, but I counted at least 32 strides and he maybe even ran 34 strides. At 32 strides his average turnover is 4.9 strides/second and of course you can see his turnover was way faster towards the end which means 5 or more strides per second once he cranks it up. He definitely chops his strides, his average stride length for that race was 6' 1" and you can clearly see how relatively short his strides are. The question is whether he can lengthen his stride and still maintain high turnover, if he does he will be a force to be reckoned with and even the way he runs now is formidable.

Actually, his stride length at the end of that 60m was long enough and his turnover high enough that if he can maintain it for 100m he will go under 9.9 seconds. So the question is whether he has the speed endurance and if not can he develop it.

The more I think about it, if he could maintain it for 100m he would break the world record. Looking at how fast he was motoring, I find it highly unlikely he can maintain that output for 100m. Will be interesting to see what he does this year outdoors and if he shows up for USATF nationals. If he no-shows again, a big red flag.

Coach d. I know John personally. He is currently been working on some changes to his start and cutting weight. Being a hundredth off on a performance over the short distance of 60 meters is not an indicator of anything. It only becomes a problem if no progress is made over the year. If you are following a training plan with a peak at the olympic trials times will be a little slower early as you have to reach a crescendo later. Altis does a great job of getting their athletes ready. The young man from South Africa looked pretty good at the world chamoionships.

In terms of the large number of athletes close in times to John makes sense because of the reduced distance decreases the chance of deviations. John was second last season indoors. Before the NCAA outdoors he severally tore his quad the week of nationals. I would imagine at that point John and his coach thought it would be better to take the time to properly heal for this year and who knows maybe a national title.