Is there anyone who could have ran D1 cross country and played D1 basketball?

Vince McNally was all-county in high school for basketball. Could of walked on at Lancaster Mennonite College but he took a scholarship to run for Penn State instead.

Indoor? wrote:

Kaylie Rhynard is a freshmen at Division 2 GVSU and competing in XC and softball. She was an alternate for their national championship XC team and will play some catcher and center field for their softball team. 1600 PR of 4:58. Her brother is XC all American Caleb Rhynard from Michigan State. She may have had the chance to do both in division 1 but would have been more the walk on level for both sports, especially when trying to do both.

We're talking basketball here, not other team sports. Although that is an interesting separate topic and one I had been thinking about recently when getting interested in the great Bruce Lee again. I had heard about Bruce Lee using running for conditioning as a kid but apparently he did ~4 mile plus runs between 20-25 minutes. I think 26m 8k would have been attainable for him.

So If division one schools had standing martial arts programs (not MMA or wrestling), Bruce would be capable of reaching competitive xc times and have enough left in diminished martial arts ability to hack it out in D1. He would never have taken on the indignity of being a mediocre fighter though, so it's purely hypothetical. If I recall he spent time in the Seattle area and was fascinated by nutrition, strength training and exercise science ideas. I wonder if there was contemporaneous influence with the distance running history in the upper west coast.

anyway

John Stockton. Ran an 8-mile race in 42 minutes with supposedly no specific training. I also heard he ran 31 minutes for a 10K.

When I was a HS soph we had a guy on the BB team that would brag he could break 5 minutes in the mile. He kept on taunting us XC guys until we challenged him to a race. He ran 5:02 and beat al us sophs. Even though we hated him for awhile after that we convinced him to join the XC team and the rest was history. He ran a 9:32 2 mile in track as a soph and went on to be an All-American.

Plenty could have run D1 XC but chose basketball.

But no one that could have played D1 basketball ever chose cross country.

Jim Ryun for sure.

Johnny Dawkins

National Player of the Year for Duke in 1986. In preseason workouts, the whole team runs a mile as part of conditioning. With zero track training, he ran a 4:20 mile.

No, I didn't go to HS with Jim Ryun. I'm old, but not that old.

alan iverson

I know someone that indeed had offers at large D1 schools for softball, basketball, and XC/track. She was all-state in XC (Kinney Finalist), track (State record holder) and basketball (18.4 points a game) in HS.

Went on to be a multiple time All-American in 3 sports in college, one of which she'd never played prior to trying out for the team.

Register your name and I'll send you the info.

Just based on incredible athleticism, I'd bet that John Lucas II could have pulled it off back in the day. NBA player and all-american tennis player at Maryland.

"With zero track training, (Johnny Dawkins) ran a 4:20 mile"

According to Duke's coach, he ran 4:36.

http://www.theshadowleague.com/articles/tsl-big-dance-throwback-attack-tourney-titans-johnny-dawkins

Still, 4:36 raw in hightops indicates definite mid-d/distance talent so I'll accept Johnny Dawkins as DI talent in both XC and basketball

Thanks for the info-

Jason Rexing

Before correcting people, you may want to try reading the original prompt (and not just the thread title). Dummy.

Slow Bro wrote:

Matt Santangelo (Gonzaga, late 90s) went to my high school and always jogged the mile in around 5:00 flat in gym class. He played hoops year-round, though. Too big of a basketball talent to consider fooling around with track.

He could also jump off both feet and 360 dunk at about 6'1". I don't know what year this graphic is from, but he recorded a 43" vertical jump at the NBA combine.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKefBQbCcAAcnw5.jpg

There's a 15 year old boy in a school I teach who is 6'0 and can currently 360 dunk. Skinny little white kid, but has some massive hops (off one foot and running). He can touch his elbow to the rim from a run (and no basketball). We measured his reach and he needs around 42" to do that. From a standing jump, he can barely grab the rim.

Rip Hamilton

I read the prompt and since she was the first who discussed other sports and the thread title/subject takes priority, then to also excuse myself, I made a one sentence statement. It was not mean. But you took offense and took the time to post your curt remark, and contribute nothing else. And call me "dummy." Singling me out.

The only reason you can single me out and hide beyond anonymity and in immunity is because you contribute jack paltry shiet to the forum board in your soulless empty existence, kissing the "man's" butt and false greed in running. And I, on the other hand, am passionate, liberal, expressive, soulful and caring. Believe me, if you were forced to reveal aspects of yourself, I could tear you a new one morally and argumentatively.

I guess you probably assume I am of some Oriental descent or am a China-man lover, too because of the post? Some latent racism, here? I bet you also carry false military jingoistic racism in your thoughts emotions and blood. Blaming Americans of East Asian descent for totalitarian communism, but having no qualm with German and Russian Americans and any ties to Nazi Germany or the USSR, even though 1. Vietnam and Korea were proxy wars against USSR, 2. Fascist Japan raped and genocided China leading to the rise of Communism there.

Haters going to hate. And to the righteous, eternal life.

It has already been mentioned but Steve Nash. Also could have played D1 soccer.

Didn't jj redick train and say he ran 5:03 or something in training for basketball in college before his senior year at duke? Obviously not a great time, but not horrible either for a basketball player anyway?

Maksim Korolev, dude's tall.