UNH guy wrote:
you are thinking of chris beyer. he ended up at keene. basha, beyer and beck were team mates one year (but i am not certain of that).
Chris Basha graduated from CHS in 1989. He was a teammate of Beyer ('92) for one year, but the three of us missed by one year of being on the same team.
As a junior, Basha ran 4:15.5 to set what was then the state record for 1600 meters. I think Zak Wright of Conant HS was the first to break it (4:11.57 in 1994); Mortimer (Londonderry HS) ran 4:10.84 for a full mile in an indoor meet in New York as a senior in 1995, but I don't think he was credited with the record because it was an all-comers race. Vanderhoof was once credited by Lancer Timing with a 4:09.49 state record run in 1996, but for some reason the site now lists Wright's mark as the record, probably because Vanderhoof's mark was converted from a 3:50.99 and was run out of state.
New Hampshire used to have funky standards about state records in that they had to be recorded at the Meet of Champions. I can see why they wouldn't accept a hand-timed 10.3 100m run at a late-March tri-meet between Profile, Berlin and Newfound on a dirt track, but it took the NHIAA a while to acknowledge that the FAT systems at meets like the New England Championships and other out-of-state championship and invitational events were probably just as accurate as its own.
Chris (actually, both of them) was a hell of a talent and a competitor. He ran a 4:05 1500m at the Junior Olympics the summer after his freshman year, right before he transferred from Alvirne to Concord. He probably never exceeded 30 miles a week in high school, and ran less than that over the summer. After virtually always winning the 1600m and the 800m, he could be counted on to rescue his comparatively inept teammates (including yours truly) on the 1600m relay with a 50-point anchor leg, which is middling by national standards but noteworthy in the Granite State. He was in an air cast for most of the spring of his senior year and won the 1600m at the Meet of Champs in the low 4:20s after about two weeks of training. Unfortunately he only competed for a year or two at UNH.
Beyer, always injury-plagued, ran something like 9:31 for 3200m as a sophomore between stress fractures. His ~16:45 at Derryfield Park in the Meet of Champs as a freshman is probably still one of the fastest 9th-grade times ever recorded there. He's done good things as a coach since graduating from Keene State.