sorry foys wrote:
Craig was better than Solinsky, Derrick, and Rosa himself has said Forys was the stadard he was striving for. Forys owns almost every record in NJ on courses that have been run on for decades and then went 8:40 or soemthing "Ritz-like" for 2miles.
Craig was not better than any of them in high school. He ran 8:46 in the 2Mile senior year to get 2nd at Nationals, he was 2nd at Foot Locker.
Solinsky WON foor locker with the largest winning margin in history at the time and had PRs of 8:43 and 4:03.
Derrick WON NXN, 2nd in one of the deepest FL Finals in history, named Gatorade Athlete of the Year for XC and ran the fastest ever 5k in a HS only race 13:55 in a complete solo effort at Arcadia before getting mono.
Rosa is not even done yet and broke Craig's course record at Holmdel and crushed his Manhattan time, which was the course record for a few minutes the day Craig ran it. On top of that, he WON nationals in the 2Mile running 8:44.0 and he still has this year.
Dont make ridiculous claims like that. With that being said, Craig did a lot of great things in HS.