Soccer Players turned into Successful Runners

One word: Ivo.

Is currently a senior in high school, ran 15:58 in xc this past year but didn't run cross till his junior year

State mile champion with a 4:21 pr.

And he's just gettin' started.

Jose Lezama

off topic but Steve McManaman was a 1.51 800m schoolboy. I think he was in the same age group as Curtis Robb who ran in the 1992 Olympics aged 18. I think at the time he was a favorite for a medal.

Off topic also, I heard Tom Cruise was quite a decent runner, can anybody confirm?

Carlos Lopes.....1984 Olympic marathon gold medalist.

convinceME wrote:

I am trying to come up with a list of people who played soccer in high school or even into college who wound up switching their focus to running eventually and having success with it. Male or female. Thanks.

Frankie Fredericks, Katutura, Namibia.

At the age of 13, Fredericks enrolled at DsËbra, a segregated Catholic school 20 miles outside Windhoek renowned for its football teams. 'You just didn't lose at DsËbra,' says Fredericks. Three years later he was offered an academic scholarship at Concordia, a newly formed (and also segregated) private school in Windhoek proper. The education was wonderful, the football terrible. 'We would lose 4-0, and my team-mates would be laughing,' says Fredericks. He made the switch to track. 'He could already outrun any defender on the soccer field, and he was a very bad loser, which is why team sports were not best for him,' says Tjongarero.

what would soccer be without running?

I could add several to the list, but Erin Donahue played soccer and basketball.

Brie Felnagle- preferred soccer well into her successful HS career