It looks like Nico Young had the junior indoor record (200m track)
It looks like Nico Young had the junior indoor record (200m track)
Born on January 20, 2003.
Ihatejoe wrote:
Born on January 20, 2003.
There you go. With room to spare…
Young did not end up holding the record for very long
That is a huge progression
Can’t wait to see what he will do in the mile &/or 5000m
Pretty sure Drew ran his on JDL which is a flat 200.
Drew Hunter Fan wrote:
Pretty sure Drew ran his on JDL which is a flat 200.
Yes, but conversions do not count for records. For NCAA qualifying purposes, Hunter would've been considered to have run 7:53.
The fastest American of all time and only a handful of posts. What gives?? This kid is faster than Lindgren or Rupp or Young. Where do we find the all-time indoor list? I located the overall list but not just the indoor list.
coalsplitter wrote:
Oversized tracks should not be allowed for qualifying or record purposes.
That's idiotic - of course they should.
Faster than Nico wrote:
The fastest American of all time and only a handful of posts. What gives?? This kid is faster than Lindgren or Rupp or Young. Where do we find the all-time indoor list? I located the overall list but not just the indoor list.
Of course it comes with a *, but it is now the official indoor record.
Indeed, there should be more hype here.
He is faster than Kessler right now (same age).
What’s going on at Wake Forest? Four guys ran between 7:55 and 7:58.
He ran 8:26, the 7:47 is a conversion.
coalsplitter wrote:
He ran 8:26, the 7:47 is a conversion.
So the US outdoor junior record is therefore Rupp’s 7:49.16.
Faster than Nico wrote:
The fastest American of all time and only a handful of posts. What gives?? This kid is faster than Lindgren or Rupp or Young. Where do we find the all-time indoor list? I located the overall list but not just the indoor list.
He graduated the same year as Young, 2019, and obviously Young can run much faster than 7:56 right now. He also hasn't been competitive at NCAA XC, his best finish was 140th this year. What's more impressive is his incredible progression from a 9:25 3200 guy to a 8:31 (converted) guy in a year and a half. We'll be seeing more of him.
joojoo wrote:
Faster than Nico wrote:
The fastest American of all time and only a handful of posts. What gives?? This kid is faster than Lindgren or Rupp or Young. Where do we find the all-time indoor list? I located the overall list but not just the indoor list.
He graduated the same year as Young, 2019, and obviously Young can run much faster than 7:56 right now. He also hasn't been competitive at NCAA XC, his best finish was 140th this year. What's more impressive is his incredible progression from a 9:25 3200 guy to a 8:31 (converted) guy in a year and a half. We'll be seeing more of him.
Minor corrections: Young and Tewalt both graduated in 2020, and Tewalt also ran 9:20 his junior year. Still a very impressive progression.
joojoo wrote:
He graduated the same year as Young, 2019, and obviously Young can run much faster than 7:56 right now. ..
Minor corrections: Young and Tewalt both graduated in 2020, and Tewalt also ran 9:20 his junior year. Still a very impressive progression.
But Nico is older…
Tewalt is Kessler’s age
meanwhile over in Denmark.......https://www.european-athletics.com/news/lilleso-breaks-ingebrigtsen-s-european-indoor-u20-3000m-record-in-sollentuna
I know him. Luke just turned 19 in January. He graduated from HS early (he skipped a grade). He was inconsistent in HS due to injuries and illness (he ran thru mono). He was injured his last XC year, and as someone else said, then there was Covid. His HS coast is Jamil Callum - an excellent coach. His eligibility is as a freshman because he did not run last year.
jjjii wrote:
Ranks him 35th on the NCAA indoor list this year. Three spots ahead of Jace Aschbrenner’s converted 7:56.8
A whole bunch of guys have not run yet.
It will be hard to make NCAA this year
It won't be significantly harder than usual--everybody just has better shoes.
Kid is a great runner. Super fluid stride. Saw him triple (800, 1600 and 3200) at the DC "state" indoor championships right before COVID hit. I think he had also run a leg on the 4 by 8 earlier if I'm not mistaken.
Doesn't surprise me that with consistent healthy training he's able to knock out a 7:56.
I coach a local team that hosts a fair amount of meets, so I got to see him a lot. As DCoach says, really fluid - changes paces effortlessly. His team (Washington Latin) was a really small team and having driven by the campus a few times, I don't even think they have a track - though I'm happy to be corrected about that. They had a really good coach while he was there that was trying to grow the program, and he often had pretty substantial workloads in meets. Not damaging/over-use big, just got the impression that team objectives meant that he wasn't spending his weekends trying to generate milesplit headlines.
Not surprising at all to see him pop some big times. He was clearly super-talented, but it was also obvious that he wasn't maxed out at all and had a lot of growth left. Good for him and good for Wake Forest.
agreer wrote:
It’s a really good time, but still far from being a record.
US U20 3000m
1. Jim Ryun-7:47.8
2. German Fernandez-7:47.97i
3. Galen Rupp-7:49.16
4. Grant Fisher-7:50.06i
5. Ben Saarel-7:52.61i
6. Cooper Teare-7:53.66i
7. Chris Derrick-7:56.31i
8. Nico Young-7:56.97i
9. Gerry Lindgren-7:58.0
10. Drew Hunter-7:59.33i
So he slots in behind Teare and just ahead of Chris Derrick, #7 in the all time list and #5 indoors.
It’d be a high school record!
Nico was 17