Over here you’ll see how early the varsity girls started running. Sam McDonnell — 73.36 in 2015 in the 400. Can’t find her results from a longer distance until 9th grade Morgan Nygren - 12:22 in 2016 in 3200 Ailish Hawkins - 3:07 in 2013 in 800 Tiffany Sax - 7:21 in 2013 in the 1500 Danielle Brotcke - 3:05 in the 800 in 2014 Samantha Spaulding - 5:34 in the 1500 in 2018 Lexi Darley - 12:22 in 2019 in the 3200 So some of their girls started in elementary school too.
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So, tell me the list of the kids at all levels Brosnan makes tops in the country. Find one who wasn't a very good youth runner.
He doesn't coach or pay any attention to the kids that aren't the tops on the team. Look at how many kids quit the team every year.
Pardon my French but, who gives 2 sh1ts about the slow kids? Any Coach Joe Schmoe can produce slow kids but can they produce fast kids? No, they can’t.
I can’t imagine going trying out for this team in grade 9 without any running experience.
So the 4th fastest runner ran a 4:01 mile last year? The 7th man on XC team has a PB of 9:10 over 3200m?
Ok, I ran around the track in 80 seconds. Is that good?
Maybe one day I will be fast enough to watch the varsity kids run.
Then again, maybe the environment in that area is such that you would have been in a club already by grade 9 of you either had the general interest to run or a baseline level of talent.
Maybe it’s very unlikely that someone would wake up in grade 9 and all of a sudden would be interested in running when it was already available in grade school and middle school.
imagine being a high school coach and you're getting 9 freshmen runners with 7-8 years of running experience? You just hit the mother load!
It’s interesting how when Brosnan has classes like the ‘23 or this incoming year’s crop of 8th graders he looks like a genius. With the ‘24 and ‘25 class, he looks like a pretty ordinary coach. Do the ‘24 or ‘25 class kids just not believe or do they just set limits? I thought that was all it took to get kids to run sub 8:50.
This is going to sound like an outrageous idea, but maybe the success has more to do with a freakish gathering of insanely talented kids than the coach and his 4:20 is not fast philosophy. I know, I know, it’s preposterous.
Watson, Stillman, and Kanner seem to be the only boys from NP c/o 2025 who did any running before 9th grade.
Stillman seems to have never raced in anything longer than 400 meters before coming into the school. I think that these short distances is what he focuses on.
Kanner went from a 5:47 in 8th grade to a 5:01 in 9th grade.
Jack Watson went from a 5:04 in 8th grade to a 4:39 in 9th grade.
Those are massive improvements.
Class of 2024:
Doshi went from a 5 flat in 2019 to a 4:27 in 2021. No 2020 track time because of Covid-19. Jonah Sloan went from 4:54 in 2021 to a 4:42 in 2022 but also ran a 10:17 in the 3200. Went from a 16:41 to a 16:01 in XC.
Arnav Shetty went from a 5:08 in 2021 to a 4:35 in 2022.
Nathan Porter went from a 10:45 in the outdoors to a 9:52 in the indoors in less than a year.
Nathaniel Schohn went from a 5:09 to a 4:45 in a year.
I don’t think Porter or Schohn ever competed in running before HS.
Notice a trend? These 2 classes are not at the level of Lex/Leo/Aaron but they are making vast year-to-year improvements
It’s interesting how when Brosnan has classes like the ‘23 or this incoming year’s crop of 8th graders he looks like a genius. With the ‘24 and ‘25 class, he looks like a pretty ordinary coach. Do the ‘24 or ‘25 class kids just not believe or do they just set limits? I thought that was all it took to get kids to run sub 8:50.
This is going to sound like an outrageous idea, but maybe the success has more to do with a freakish gathering of insanely talented kids than the coach and his 4:20 is not fast philosophy. I know, I know, it’s preposterous.
Watson, Stillman, and Kanner seem to be the only boys from NP c/o 2025 who did any running before 9th grade.
Stillman seems to have never raced in anything longer than 400 meters before coming into the school. I think that these short distances is what he focuses on.
Kanner went from a 5:47 in 8th grade to a 5:01 in 9th grade.
Jack Watson went from a 5:04 in 8th grade to a 4:39 in 9th grade.
Those are massive improvements.
Class of 2024:
Doshi went from a 5 flat in 2019 to a 4:27 in 2021. No 2020 track time because of Covid-19. Jonah Sloan went from 4:54 in 2021 to a 4:42 in 2022 but also ran a 10:17 in the 3200. Went from a 16:41 to a 16:01 in XC.
Arnav Shetty went from a 5:08 in 2021 to a 4:35 in 2022.
Nathan Porter went from a 10:45 in the outdoors to a 9:52 in the indoors in less than a year.
Nathaniel Schohn went from a 5:09 to a 4:45 in a year.
I don’t think Porter or Schohn ever competed in running before HS.
Notice a trend? These 2 classes are not at the level of Lex/Leo/Aaron but they are making vast year-to-year improvements
Looks like pretty typical improvement for newer, young runners.