9th Grader Quincy Wilson wins 400m NBIN in 46.67!

He is the meet director for some of the Armory meets and has a club on the side as well. The success of their teams is good enough recruiting right there - especially when it comes with a full ride to a decent enough private school in suburban DC.

Recruiting athletes goes on at HS for all top programs no matter the sport. It's just the way things are done now. Yes, the DC Metro area definitely produces more than its fair share of amazing athletes across many sports (Katie Ledecky, top Div 1 talent every year), but all the private schools try to bring in promising athletes to keep the pipeline hot and keep winning. The schools don't need to do any hard sell to parents as most of these schools are college prep with strong academic reputations. Who wouldn't want their kid getting a full ride or even half price tuition at quality private schools?

Bullis obv has a lot of $$ to throw at track and good for them. But yes, they are, imo, a club or track training academy for these elite athletes and no doubt the coaches know how to coach elite talent. I'm not sure they're turning water into wine though.

And I do think these kids give up meaningful school based team competition by going there. For example, Nyckoles Harbor goes to another local DC private, a Catholic school, that competes in a league with a significant talent across the board and real rivalries and a meaningful league championship. Bullis, if they're in a league or conference, I'm sure just bludgeons the other schools.

Damn, so Taylor only improved by 0.5s in 7 years? That's kind of rough

I'm cheering loudly for this young man. Any other distance folks hoping he goes 800 before he graduates? He's also got my vote for playing Miles Morales in the live action movie that's probably sliding across desks in high buildings as we speak.

What is the proper age?

Why can't posters on letrun just put the age of a runner not the school year they are in which has a 1 year variation and even more when they go to college. All other countries go off age as do all international junior championships

Bullis boys compete in a small, six team conference. Since their emergence in 2015, they've won that conference in 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, and after a two year break from official conference meets, 2022. The 2019 team may have been one of the best high school track teams ever in the area, and they did indeed bludgeon everybody in the conference that year. 2018's team seem to have had some injury issues (Coach Lee is pretty careful with those runners, but stuff happens over the course of a season) and they nearly lost that year.

All told, it's not a bad dynamic. Sprints in the conference didn't used to be competitive, now they are. Other schools have emphasized different event groups to work around Bullis' sprint dominance. The result is a not-that-terrible conference meet considering it's only six small schools in Maryland.

The school also has a beautiful cross country course on campus

runwashington.com

The House that Stubbs Built

Jacqueline Feldscher

When Mike Stubbs spent a few years coaching cross country at Bullis, he had the chance to design the course of his dreams.

Link:www.runwashington.com/2015/09/09/the-h...

The school is absolutely awful at cross country - have barely been able to field a scoring team in recent years despite some decent individuals.

Would agree with this post - would also mention that Bullis does not actually bludgeon the other teams that badly despite the significant talent advantage as their roster does not seem to ever be that large. What they lack in depth and ability to field lots of events they more than make up with individual talent.

Yep. The girls team is often a bit more diversified in terms of hurdles and jumps, and is also usually a much larger roster. If the boys squad is healthy and clicking, Coach Lee will have some of them hurdle or jump because they're good athletes and some of them have some experience with those events from youth track or something. That's usually enough to win at conference, but there's no reason for a good, well-rounded team to go into any particular season (except maybe 2019, with two Allens, Willie, Turay, Karayianis, and a number of other really strong talents) regarding Bullis as unbeatable.

Demarion Facon ran a 45.13. 9th grade anni camp jr high

no peds

He just split 45.06 at Penn relays. As a freshman. Talk about carrying his team to the finals. The Lyles brothers used to split 45s at this meet. Not sure what the fastest split ever at penn relays was but Christopher Taylor split 44.84.

probably 44 low from when christopher taylor and calabar ran 3:03 in 2018. if not, i would guess the fastest split probably either belongs to obea moore or william reed.

speaking of those guys, i really hope quincy wilson doesn’t fall into obscurity like those guys. based off of the interviews i’ve listened too, he seems like a great kid! praying on his success.

As an update to this, Bullis did not win their conference meet. Wilson put on a show, obviously - running a breezy-looking 2:01 split on the 4x800m (he got out hard and ready to hunt, but he relaxed for the 200m prelims once it was clear it would take a 1:48-9 to catch the team in front of him), a 21.50 200m, 46.64 400m, and a 47.low leg on the 4x400m. But St. Albans is also rich in top-shelf talent (Pierre Attiogbe runs 4:13/8:49 and they have a pair of sophomores that have run like 4:17/18) and does a really good job of spreading its talent around for this particular meet. Final team score for the top two was 160 for St. Albans and 116 for Bullis.

Bullis/STA's conference actually runs its championship meet concurrently with another small conference, which means that fans were also treated to Charlie Ortmans' 4:12 1600m race and Tinoda Matsatsa's 1:49 800m final. Made for a fun couple evenings for a small little meet in Maryland.

That's amazing.