Did 18 year old aussie Amy Bunnage run faster than the USA High school record. 15:21 for the Stanford recruit. Hollingsworth winning 1500m B heat was pretty good as well.
Yes but she finished high school in December so your point is?
Read the review of the meet. Some great performances all around. It was disappointing to read that attendance was poor. I wonder how well it was marketed? ( seriously asking, as here in NY metro, the WA meet is basically kept a secret). Also, wasn't there a pay-per-view revenue sharing component to this meet? Anyone have the number of subscribers?
Read the review of the meet. Some great performances all around. It was disappointing to read that attendance was poor. I wonder how well it was marketed? ( seriously asking, as here in NY metro, the WA meet is basically kept a secret).
It has nothing to do with marketing. Very few people in the LA area like being spectators at pro track meets. All the LA area pro meets have poor attendance.
Read the review of the meet. Some great performances all around. It was disappointing to read that attendance was poor. I wonder how well it was marketed? ( seriously asking, as here in NY metro, the WA meet is basically kept a secret).
It has nothing to do with marketing. Very few people in the LA area like being spectators at pro track meets. All the LA area pro meets have poor attendance.
It has nothing to do with marketing. Very few people in the LA area like being spectators at pro track meets. All the LA area pro meets have poor attendance.
Thanks. Sounds like NYC meets also.
Because no one is interested in track except those that run it. Let's face it. It's never going to change.
It seems to me that Tuohy should be beating Henes and handily. I think college has served its purpose for KT. Time to get to altitude, time to meet Dathan Ritzenhein.
I went to both The Ten and this meet. The Ten at the Catholic high school in Orange County seemed like it was better attended. The Ten had high school races. This meet did not.
Wayment was out front by herself for a while, Gear came around her with 120 to go. Looked like a pretty classic case of Wayment switching off and just couldn't change gears quickly when she got jumped going into the last straightaway.
I think the team is still Freirichs (health permitting), Coburn, Wayment, but Gear in the conversation.
I went to both The Ten and this meet. The Ten at the Catholic high school in Orange County seemed like it was better attended. The Ten had high school races. This meet did not.
Most of the high school runners at The Ten were from Southern California, and so their family and friends showed up to support them. Almost none of the pros family and friends go to pro meets, because the pros race too far from home.
For example, at The TEN Leo Young brought about a dozen people with him. There aren't any pros bringing a dozen family and friends to their meets.
The biggest problem is holding it all the way out at Mt. SAC - it’s 90+ mins from the westside of LA and probably an hour from downtown, even. Most Angelenos couldn’t even tell you where Walnut is. people aren’t going to spend 2-3 hours driving to watch a 90 minute meet. If they held it somewhere more central I bet they’d have much better attendance.
The biggest problem is holding it all the way out at Mt. SAC - it’s 90+ mins from the westside of LA and probably an hour from downtown, even. Most Angelenos couldn’t even tell you where Walnut is. people aren’t going to spend 2-3 hours driving to watch a 90 minute meet. If they held it somewhere more central I bet they’d have much better attendance.
No. That's not it at all.
Most people in LA who have even a little interest in pro track know where Mt SAC is.
The distance has nothing to do with why so few people went. People in SoCal drive 2 to 3 hours each way from San Diego to LA for sporting events and concerts all the time. So driving across LA is a non issue.
And they do have plenty of meets at other places in the LA area like UCLA, USC, and Occidental College, and there are very few spectators at any of those meets either.
Most people in the LA area simply aren't interested in going to see a pro track meet. That's the real reason for low attendance.
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