Or you could take a diuretic, and flush them out of your system.
Or you could take a diuretic, and flush them out of your system.
Whaaat? wrote:
Factt wrote:They win so many Penn Relays titles because they have a bunch of track and field magnet schools that just suck up all the talent from Jamaica and around the Caribbean, while they're mostly competing against public schools from a three state area.
I might remind you that the best high school sprinter in Jamaica this year was Delano Williams, who's from Turks and Caicos.
If they sent every single one of the top high schools in the US to Penn, it would look much different.
If you take a look at the Penn Relay rosters, you will see that there are MANY schools competing from all over the USA. I don't know how the situation has changed since the Bolt effect but we must remember that the article was written in 1989. There were no "track and field magnet schools" back then and I doubt there are now. I concede that as of late, Jamaica has likely become a magnet of sorts due to their victories but not sure if that's on a high school level vs Pro. I think MVP and Racers probably have a line out the door.
If by "All over America" you mean usually Long Beach Poly CA and maybe another California team or two, plus some other teams from the Mid-Atlantic coastal region, then sure we can say "All over America".
For High Schools, the Penn Relays is mainly a meet for schools in Jamaica, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and North Carolina.
This is the COMPLETE list of high schools that had ANY entries from beyond those states:
Long Beach Poly CA
Junipero Serra CA
Monta Vista CA
Chaminade CA
Gahanna Columbus OH
North Canton Hoover OH
Nordonia OH
Hilton Head SC
Hockaday School TX
Park City UT
Monroe WI
It's a great meet, but for US high schools it's not even the strongest meet of the invitational season.
Here is the entire list if anyone wishes to peruse it. As you can see, Jamaica represents a small percentage and that's my point entirely.
Factt wrote:
How many schools from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida?
The Penn Relays generally get schools from just about every state in the nation; however FL and TX for example have state qualifers on the Penn Relays date and you don't get the best teams from those states and others. With that said, the Penn Relays is by no means a 3 state meet as someone said. Jordan Hasay is one of the few star athletes I can think of who never ran at Penn.
According to the website, Penn relays have over 60 countries and more participants than the Olympics. The event runs for 35 hours and avg of a race every five min. That's pretty big.
Yes, but the VAST majority of the participants are from areas within 100 or 200 miles of Philadelphia.
I have a related question:
Ok, so Jamaica H.S. athletes dominate U.S. teams in relays with sprint. And then at the pros, they are also competitive and maybe recently you could say dominant at that level too.
But at Penn, Jamaica also dominates at the 800, 1200, and 1600 legs, yet that dominance does not continue at the next level. They might have a 4:10 H.S. miler or a 1:53 800m guy, but none of them seem to translate into sub-4 or 1:46 guys years down the line while their U.S. counterparts that do this often do get to that level later. Why???
They don't. The longest race they do well at is the 4x800.. Jamaica has some pretty good female 800 runners.
That statement you made that Jamaican kids don't attend their
hign school is no true, why do Americans always believe every other country broke the rules. American have a very good record of breaking rules.