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My comment is that this athlete started doping in high school and is doping now. People saw the Valby circus and saw the rewards.
Hedengren: 19-year-old college sophomore - been tested by USADA 4 times this year (1 in 1st quarter, 3 in 2nd quarter)
Tuohy: 23-year-old professional, been a pro for two full years - ZERO tests in her entire life
Dominated HS, dominated college, turned pro and entered the testing pool, now barely faster than she was at 15 and much slower than she was in college.
All "red flags" point to Tuohy as 1000x more suspicious.
NC State Track and XC has a Facebook page. On that page, they posted photos on Monday Nov 10 of the team working out, and Hartman is included in those pictures. But you are correct that it doesn't seem she traveled up to Charlottesville, as she is not included in any of the pictures on the FB page or the NC State athletic dept webpage from today's meet. That includes the team photo on the podium. She was among the 14 athletes listed that could have run for NCSU today. I thought Henes may have been conducting a de facto tryout for the 6th and 7 spots next week in leaving Hartman and Englehardt out, but this is a bit worrisome. And remember we found out about Kelsey Chmiel's injury in 2023 from a LRC poster. If Hartman is out, hard to think Henes is going to pull off another miracle. Hoping this is BS and she's okay.
Is Jane Hedengren's age typical for a true college freshman these days? Both of my daughters started college at 17 years old. My youngest is a college sophomore, and is still 18, yet Jane is already 19? This partially explains why she looked so much older and stronger than the high schoolers in her races last year. She probably should have been competing against the college women already. In all likelihood, she would have podiumed!
Is Jane Hedengren's age typical for a true college freshman these days? Both of my daughters started college at 17 years old. My youngest is a college sophomore, and is still 18, yet Jane is already 19? This partially explains why she looked so much older and stronger than the high schoolers in her races last year. She probably should have been competing against the college women already. In all likelihood, she would have podiumed!
I don’t have stats for this, but I’d imagine there are way more college freshmen who are 19 than 17. The vast majority of freshmen fresh out of high school will turn 19 during their freshman year, which Jane did, or the summer after it. Slightly early birthday, yes, but there’s no way you can say she “should” have been in college last year
And she looked “so much” older than other high schoolers? Really? She probably had a 3-4 month advantage on the average person in her grade, who tf cares
How could you be an adult and be this ignorant about what age freshmen are in college? Aside from the roughly 8-10% of boys who are held back a year for kindergarten to level up in mind and body, kids enter kindergarten at 5 years old and graduate high school at 17 or 18 years old, entering college, if they go, at 18 years old, and they turn 19 as freshmen, starting after September 1, and continuing until the following end of August after their freshmen year. So, Hedengren is the normal age, but certainly about ten months older than the youngest in her class who started kindergarten at the right age and kept pace in school.
Did a little research at the National Centre for Educational Statistics and the consensus is someone 19 years old in the fall of 2025 should normally be a sophomore. Just as I suspected. Nothing wrong with holding your kids back a year, especially for young, immature boys. 😁