Newbury Park throws down, again

teare's tears wrote:

Sham 69 wrote:

I would, but I value my anonymity. It's my senior year of high school, and was able to go from a 6 minute mile to 4:30 in under a year, so anything is possible with hard work.

430 miler confirmed

With the right bicycle, you, too, can run a PR like this!

NP has an incredible program, dedicated and talented athletes, and a very knowledgeable coach. However, it's also located in an extremely wealthy Southern California Suburb. This means that most kids at that school have stable financial and family situations, meaning greater likelihood to go out for sports and better support networks.

NP is not a "normal" school.

Nico Youngs brother a soph going 8:57! Love to see his times come senior year!

How about talking about the athletes just flat out running great. Has any other team ever run times like this...in March?

A rich suburb

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2000+ student high school

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Good training

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Success

If a coach can’t do it there they can’t do it anywhere.

Once you have some success for a while at least you’ll have more from all the attention. It will draw the talent. It won’t last forever though. In 3-4 years they will come back down to earth.

Ask him why he switched into NIKE kits with Nico. Just ask him.

Newbury Park being as good as they are isnt an insanely hard thing to image. My school of <800 kids has had 4 guys sub 4:30 on a good year, a school 2-3x that size having guys as fast as they are isnt insane, lucky couple years of talent and a good coach/culture

[quote]Mr. T 2024 wrote:

A rich suburb

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2000+ student high school

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Good training

=

Success

If a coach can’t do it there they can’t do it anywhere.

I don't think population of the school matters as much as people think. It's really about getting a lot of kids to come out for the team. I went to a school of around 1700 and at one point we had 120 kids on the boys team alone. That basically 14% of every boy in the school on the xc team. We contended for a state title for 2 years and after that the number of the kids on the team dropped and the performances dropped as well.

I'm pretty sure Newbury Park is a cut team. I remember watching some video from Brosnan saying he likes to keep the team small. Something like 7 varsity, 7 jv, and a couple other kids. In this system you're gonna have kids busting their butts to even make the team, which means they'll have to be really fit if they're competition on their own team is running 9:0x or 4:2x. Probably not the best in the long term, but we will see.

Both/and!

Talent and training, the best of all possible worlds.

In Music, if you have born talent, it's a leg up for sure, but if you have also the motivation *and* the experience/work ethic, you're gonna a serious contendah!

Does anyone care about high school running?

You have no clue what you're talking about. They don't cut.

It's very cool to watch this team run so dang fast though

I am confused but so are you. You are not allowed to travel to another state to compete, as a club or school. This is per CIF and the CA health department.

But you’re right... a lot of kids are doing it. They are violating rules but that what it takes to win I guess.

First of all listen to Sean Brosnans interview March or April 2020 with letsrun. He is PASSIONATE!! I am 55 years old average track runner road racer4:08 1500 m best 9:39 3200m 53:55 for 10 miles. That was almost 30 years ago listening to him on the podcast I was so pumped wanting to run and get in good shape again. U could tell how motivational he is plus having talented driven athletes not surprised at the success he has with his team

He is a conspiracy theorist and has some pretty gross views politically but he is a top notch coach, for sure.

Everyone ran unattached and they didn't travel as a team. No rules are broken. Those are facts

You must be wearing three masks with a diaper from your basement

Skyridge in Utah just ran 4 guys under 9:11 at 2700ft elevation.

Chaser2002 wrote:

Skyridge in Utah just ran 4 guys under 9:11 at 2700ft elevation.

Wait, hold on for just one minute. Who is this coach at Skyridge? How many All-American's do they have, what professional coaches do they collaborate with and why have we not heard about these qualifications that make them a great coach in countless interviews? I demand to know how there can be someone else getting these kind of results!!!

Haha, exactly!

Doubble Bubble wrote:

Chaser2002 wrote:

Skyridge in Utah just ran 4 guys under 9:11 at 2700ft elevation.

Wait, hold on for just one minute. Who is this coach at Skyridge? How many All-American's do they have, what professional coaches do they collaborate with and why have we not heard about these qualifications that make them a great coach in countless interviews? I demand to know how there can be someone else getting these kind of results!!!

Stats, names and times, please.