Dave Culp. Now there is a name from the past. Haven't seen him in 20 years.
TC Roberson has had its share of good runners and good running people as coaches but none has had the success Stormin Norman Blair had while he was coaching there.
Dave Culp. Now there is a name from the past. Haven't seen him in 20 years.
TC Roberson has had its share of good runners and good running people as coaches but none has had the success Stormin Norman Blair had while he was coaching there.
Erickson is still knocking around in Asheville (2xstate champ) and spends time on letsrun I believe. WNC isn't the hotbed it once was for distance runners. Besides Chad Newton and Randy Ashley there arn't any quality guys there any more
haven't been near Blowing Rock have you?
Zap Fitness might disagree with your opinion
You are misinformed to still include randy ashly in a group of elite. maybe former elite. if you need a columnist to write something about running, he will write you a nice story about himself. stuart moran and his wife are running well and living in western north carolina. chad newton is still there, though not as elite as he once was. he even lost his trail championship on his home course. the only elite i can see from reading the local paper is anne riddle. she seems to get all of the press for runners in that area. probably rightly so. seems a bit saturated for my taste though. i hear that jason bodnar lives comes up here to train some. he hasn't done much in a couple of years either. there was a womans marathoner who is close to running a trials qualifier. jenny....
btw. none of the people i mentioned, were high school runners in north carolina. maybe the jenny girl. the poster earlier who said that TC was not as good as the stormin norman days. I beg to differ. they have been the most consistent program over the years and do not seem to have fallen off. steve and culp do a great job. they have tons of kids out every year and send a few on to run in college every season it seems. i would think that steve, francine and culp merely continued the tradition that stormin norman started.
I didn't mean to take anything away from Steve, Culp and Francine and others. They are still doing (and have done) a great job and TC Roberson is still a power house. But Norman was still the MAN, nobody can question that!
please dont forget jim farmer, raleigh, and reggie harris, ashville, both acc champions and damn nice guys.
also, the zappers are badasses...
Whatever happened to Ollie Ehlinger of TC Roberson? He was probably the cutest runner they ever produced.
Hey all you yongun's out there, no one has mentioned the greatest NC native distance ( one mile-5000 meters) runner of all.. he's from Charlotte, went to Carolina. Former AR holder in both those events. Name him, fast !
Jim Beatty.
Ollinger is a member of the Tribe along with Woodard. Dub M's respekt.
Robbie Howell.
robbie got his cpa and his law degree and is an attorney in the triangle area. he had a great college career and went sub 4 on a dmr split.
jenny deweese.
got her trials qualifier in Chicago. 26th in 2:44:55. got some of the american cash too.
just won the half in myrtle beach in 1:17
hey bud wrote:
Jim Beatty.
That's correct.
Amanda Horn was the absolute BEST!!! We were best friends since we were 5 until I moved from Brevard after 8th grade. I remember her winning absolutely EVERY race she was ever in. Many were national races/junior olympics. Boy, was I jealous!! I remember one time I said, "Gosh, Amanda. Maybe the grown-ups didn't try in the race, because they felt sorry for you!!" What a loser thing to say! I can't remember how old I was. I told my parents that I said it afterwards (because I knew underneath it all, it was wrong) and they said, "No! She won because she is the best, Kirsten!"
Many times, when a grownup would meet me, they would say, "So.. I hear you're friends with Amanda Horn..." Amanda was just that good. Grownups who had just moved into town would ask about her.
Right before I left, she was nursing a knee injury. When I visited after that, it sounded like the injury had gotten worse. (I'm sure it was because she missed me so much!! just kidding.) Anyway, I know she would have gone to the olympics. Everyone knew that. We were just waiting for her to come of olympic age.
Anyway, I looked up her name and found this site. Amanda was (and I'm sure still is) such a FUN person! I haven't met a person like her yet. Her sense of humor was incredibly creative and spontaneous. Her running talent was an amazing gift, but is only a fraction of who she is. Her personality alone would make her famous.
Yeah.. David was a great one. I was a HS teammate with him in 1984. It was my senior year and his freshman year... I remember him as a quirky, cocky kid. Very, very smart. In our first XC meet he was our 8th man in.. If I remember correctly. He soon announced that he would be 2nd man by the end of the season.. everyone scoffed, but he pulled it off. I never lost to him, but I could see that he would eventually re-write our school's record books. I think he also scored a 1600 on his SAT!! There were many good runners in WNC in the early to mid 80s. The Carpenters brothers, Reggie Harris, Brian Ponder, Marc Judd, Chris Sheperd, Ed Fore, Dean Duncan, Mike Clinebell, Reggie Purser, Kenzil King, Van Wilkins, The Pons brothers.. There were many races then if you didn't go sub 10:10 in the 3200 or sub 4:30 in the mile, you were out of the points.
Info on Honea and others
blake phillips-russell (forsyth country day), 13 time state champ (11 on the track) is the only distance runner from NC i can think of who has a realistic shot at making the oly team this year. go private schools!