I was interested if a freshman boy has ever won a highschool state meet. I know it has happened before on the girls side, although girls have normaly reached maturity earlier. Does anybody have answers???
Harrison Schrage won the Oregon state meet long jump as a freshman, I believe. It happens often in much smaller states
Nathan Green won the Idaho 5A state meet in the 1600 as a freshmen a few years ago.
Elijah Armstrong won 4a in Idaho a while before that too. I imagine there are plenty of others in just Idaho.
Donovan Kilmartin won the long jump and pole vault 4 years in a row in Idaho. I believe he scored 36 points his freshman year and 40 each year after that, winning the hurdles and high jump sophomore through senior year.
The late great Ryan Shay. He went on to run for Notre Dame, and tried to make it to Beijing. Unfortunately, he passed away of a heart attack during a marathon. He was amazing, I got to watch him at the state meet when I was in high school.
I had a teammate in college that won state in the 1600m as a high school freshman...and never again. (He finished second to his own teammate their senior year). not surprisingly, he was really talented and never put in the work. Super lazy.
Elijah Armstrong won 4a in Idaho a while before that too. I imagine there are plenty of others in just Idaho.
Donovan Kilmartin won the long jump and pole vault 4 years in a row in Idaho. I believe he scored 36 points his freshman year and 40 each year after that, winning the hurdles and high jump sophomore through senior year.
Sorry- I was wrong. He won the long jump and high jump 4 years in a row, pole vault and hurdles 3 years in a row. 4 time Gatorade player of the year and his team won 4 straight state championships.
Jason Mashmire(sp?) won the 3000 m at the Oregon state meet in the early ‘90s, running -8:40. He regularly beat future Olympian Dan Browne and also, IIRC, joined the military. He also finished around 5th or so at FL.
From the WIAA website - David Greenwood of Park Falls won the high jump from 1976-79, and Paul Annear of Richland Center won the same event from 2005-08. This is for individual events - three others were on state champ relay teams for 4 years.
Absolutely. I went to a little class A high school in GA in the 90s and we had a few freshman state champs. Since then GA has expanded from A-4A to like A-7A or something plus some classifications now divide public and private. Plenty of room around the country for 9th grade state champs sometimes without even having to run very impressive times, other times quite fast.
Take Idaho for example. Idaho has about 20 schools in the small school division 2A, each with a graduating class of 40-80 students. The total graduating class for 2A in the whole state is about 1200, which is like a conference of 4 medium size high schools.
In the 3200 this year there was a 9:03, a 9:05, then it skipped to 9:48. For comparison I randomly clicked on 2015, the fastest 2a time that year was a 9:41 and only 2 broke 10.
I’m sure a ton have won small division/class state meets, but do most states not have a combined state championship where everyone comes together? It’s a shame if they don’t.
Depends what state meet. Keegan smith of Knoxville catholic in Tennessee was a state champ in the 1600 this year. I’m sure it’s happened more than a few times in some of the smaller states. Big states like Texas? Not sure. I dont think there has never been a male freshman individual state champion in California, but I could definitely be wrong about that.
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