Best Fights You've Seen at Track Meets

jack cuvo of east stroudsburgh university in pennsylvania was all american in division 2 cross country and was even better at wrestling

MgMgrand wrote:

If anyone remembers a guy named James Small way back in 99 or 2000, beat Webb in the 1000 that same year too. Both ran 2:27-8 something at Mason. Small just kept punching and throwing bows at Webb and Webb didn't do nothin, however niether was DQ'ed cuz the times were so freakin fast. I think they were both sophmores at the time. There should have been a fight though.

No, no I'm pretty sure it didn't happen like that. Small wasn't a dirty runner by any means (and no I didn't go to Mclean). Small did beat Webb in the 1000 earlier that year (at Episcopal I think), but it wasn't exactly an important race.

I believe his senior year in hs Cuvo was ranked #1 in the 10,000 ahead of one Bradley Hudson. And I know he was an even better wrestler.

Getting back to the best fight I ever saw at a track meet it was between two girls. They were both at my hs. One came from a running family where their dad had the whole family running by age 10, sort of like the Garritsons without talent. The other chick was a little mean hellion that could have been great until she started getting into partying. At this particular meet she was hopped up on speed. She even offered it to my friend before his race (ironically she kicked his ass once at practice also-she was 4-11 and about 100 pounds too, it was a no-win situation. What was he going to do?)

Any way there was always bad blood between the two mentioned girls and the girl with the dad coach transferred to another school. The very first meet they go against each other words were said near the bleachers and I got to see the best fight I ever saw, blood and pulled hair, screaming, and it whent on for about 3 -4 minutes. No one was going to break that up quick!

Oh, the little chick got me good one time too. She overheard me one time talking bad about the girls team and their work ethic and one hot, muggy day, I noticed an atrocious smell in my car driving home from school, pulled over and noticed a dead, rotting possum behind the driver side of my car.

more on jack cuvo he wrestled at east stroudsburgh from 1986-89, was inducted into the schools hall of fame in 1991 he was a 2 time division 1 wrestling champion, back when division 2 schools could send the top wrestlers to the division 1 championships, he was 45-0 his senior year and won 164 college matches in 4 years at his university and he was a division 2 all american in cross country. and i dont know how good a wrestler he was, but mark nenow mentioned he was a high school wrestler before he started running, i am sure there are people on these boards who know the mark nenow story better than me, so hopefully they can tell it.

I caoched at a D2 college and if you can recruit any 10:00 3200 runner who also wrestled 4 years you will have a damn good distance prospect. In terms of coachability, discipline and work ethic.

Just saying wrote:

I've always thought that Lunn looked like he was probably a real a$$hole. These stories confirm it's probably true. No one gets into this many fights, least of all with fellow runners, without his own temperment playing a role.

Someone make my day and tell me a story about Lunn getting his nose broken.

Do you have a difficult time making a definitive statement?

First sentence: You thought that he looked like he probably...... Next sentence:Confirm that probably......

Why don't you stay consistent with:Someone make my day and tell me that it looked like he probably got his nose broken, maybe.

mwwwin wrote:

Wow, two violent occassions concerning Lunn. I didn't know he was such a hot head...

Where do you read of "two violent occassions", Ahmed? I read of one shove and listening to a guy who missed finals and telling him to go away.

ACC indoors at clemson back at 2004 had an awsome fight! An fsu kid pushed a clemson kid off the track in the 400 and got dq'ed. after the race finished he started walking back down the track and the clemson guy got up and walked towards him, where they started a shoving match. the stands quickly emptied and an all out brawl between FSU and Clemson ensued. i was talking to ian hornabrook of FSU at the time so i got a great seat to the festivities!

It was awsome!... the fight delayed the meet over 30 minutes as there was little security on hand to deal with it. the following week i voted for clemson and FSU on the top of my ballot for the ACC's sportsmanship award.

At a high school meet back in the day, a rather large runner towards the back of the race cut the course and tackled a kid who he had an altercation with at a past Wrestling camp. The problem was he tackled the wrong guy and beat the crap out of some random kid.

In my college days way back when, there was a huge fight at an indoor meet in Louisiana. It was a 10 laps to the mile banked board track and our anchor in the mile relay got a huge elbow, getting knocked out into the farthest outside lane on a turn where the bank was high. He nearly fell off the track and he could be seen to yell, "Son of a bitch!" although the crowd noise drowned it out. He almost caught back up by the end but came up a little short, whereupon he threw the baton at the guy that fouled him. The other guy waited for our guy to walk by, then shoved him hard in the back. That was all a couple of guys on our team had been waiting for. They stormed the track and punched out the other guy, sprawling him to the track. Then all hell broke loose. Everybody started fighting; even some fans came down and got into it like in the Pistons/Pacers game. Somebody took a swing at me at one point, but I sidestepped him and he fell down and a couple of dudes from some team I had never even seen kicked him a couple of times just for the heck of it and moved on to another area. A bloke had gotten the rake from the long jump pit and was swinging it around wildly, yelling "Bring it on, motherf@&%ers!" That is, until the biggest guy on my team just walked up and said "Gimme that!" and grabbed the rake and body blocked him into the sand. It was almost comical how everybody within ten yards suddenly scattered once the big guy got that rake. The funniest bit was when the coaches came to try to restore order and hustle us out of there and most of the action had died down. There was this big-mouthed 400 hurdler on my team (he was incredibly talented but was a major pu$$y and was always giving up in workouts and races) who was standing about 50 feet away from any of the hostilities and was acting all tough, sticking his chest out and saying "Hold me back! Hold me back!" even though no one was anywhere near him. As we were leaving the scene, he was still over there strutting and posturing and one of our coaches pointed at him, rolled his eyes and said "Somebody shut him up." It was wild. I guess it was lucky nobody pulled a gun. Nobody on my team got worse than a bloody nose or a shiner out of all of it, although the mile relay anchor guy that my teammates cold cocked must've been out for awhile because he didn't get up anytime soon. We never went back to that meet in the ensuing years.

>>I guess it was lucky nobody pulled a gun

Who brings a gun to a track meet?

The starter?

Ge wrote:

>>I guess it was lucky nobody pulled a gun

Who brings a gun to a track meet?

Anyone who says there was more than one violent occasion I'm going to punch you!

Ge wrote:

Who brings a gun to a track meet?

Here's one:

Here's another:

Scroll down near the bottom to

April 6, 2000: Hugo, OK

A 33 year old mother fired a single gunshot at another 35 year old mother attending an elementary school track meet at a stadium filled with around 500 elementary students and parents, wounding a third woman who was several feet away from about 25 second-graders.

This is rare for sure, but I'm actually surprised there haven't been more shootings at sporting events. After all, people do bring guns to school, right?

wejo wrote:

Ok, today after the men's 1500m Heat 1, Jason Lunn and Said Ahmed appeared to almost come to blows. I'm not sure exactly what happened but they were arguing on the track afterwards and Zach Griffin stepped in between them.

Then they confronted each other again, and Ahmed could be heard saying to Lunn, "I'll punch you in the face" Griffin then stepped in again and nothing else happened.

So it got me to thinking about the best fights I've seen at track meets. There was one at the Yale-Cornell-Bucknell tri-meet my junior year but i don't have time for the details but wanted to get the thread going.

Okay, to keep this thread going, a partly true tongue-in-cheek yarn U shall have:

One time back in Gr. 10 after my last period, I wandered over to this soccer field to watch this huge high school scrap (two scools were involved) and a track meet broke out! Funny how I was marvelling about these neatly drawn parallel lines around the perimeter of the two soccer fields and it looked like a lot of the guys and girls too were really serious, they had surrendered their Doc Martens (or blakes, remember this was 1965 the era of Dallas Winston from 'The Outsiders') & those sexy high heels for these dangerously looking sharp spikey type shoes. boythis could be one vicious mother of a brawl I'm thinking. Flicking a boot was popular then and think of the damage them spikes could do!! I was later AMAZED our PE teacher came hustlin over & got me to try out, I said, "I'm too much of a pussy I don't want to ever get into another scrap after this kid two years ago punched me so hard in the head I had a detached retina." (partly true story) "No, no!" Mr. Taylor said, "We need someone who can run well in the one mile, you run so fast every time we have laps in class & I want to see what you can do." "Promise no one will colcock me?" I asked. "Count on it" said Mr Taylor.

So, I'm lining up with a couple of seniors from our own high school and this one Arthur Fonzarelli type dude and another dude wearing horn rim spectacles from the opposing high school. The starter gun barks and it's like something I have always done, running not full tilt but at a comfortable lope which feels cool.....until after 2 1/2 laps pass, not so easy at all, still hanging on for dear life to this one tall senior dude from my school who then surges away after the 3rd. lap passes and this rather studious small horned rim guy goes with him. THey finish 1st. & 2nd. both under 4:40. I finish 3rd. in 4:48 really winded, grabbing my knees for awhile. The "Fonz" was last by a third of one lap... & he even comes over to me to...shake my hand instead of kicking my ass....(maybe he was going to ask if I had a smoke I could spare him, this happened once).... but...later it was news a fight did break out, after some clown had a pair of spikes belonging to someone else who needed them for his sprint event. He wouldn't give them back!

So due to curiousity more than anything else about a rumour all day about this big event happening I became a member of our high school track team.

Lets not forget Lunn going across the finish line and pointing at him in the race. They got into it 3 times with that guy stepping in each time the officials around did nothing to stop them

A couple of days ago I saw that a former Stanford distance runner got into a wrestling match with her clothes. She won.

it was for sure in the 1992 world championships , when gebresalasie got punched in the head from behind by the kenyan Josephat Machuka. Geb sat and unleased an amazing last 200m and Machuka couldnt respond and right at the finish nailed him in the head. The funny part is when geb goes to shake his hand a couple minutes later. I have it on tape still.

Hahahaha, that one with the indoor brawl involving the rake is hilarious.

What did he do when Geb tried to shake his hand?