Senior wise it went.
Me - 4:40
Runner A - 4:30
Runner B - 4:45
Runner C - 4:59
Probably had a few 800 runners that could break five but never touched the mile. All in all, only 4 individuals. Ours was a big school too. Over 2,000 students. That didn't count for specialty schools that didn't have a sports team so they competed under the main public school. Good chance that we had 3,000 possible students to compete under.
350 in the schools graduating class. 500 if you count other graduating classes.
2007 -- 6 in a class of 50 -- 12%
4:12
4:14
4:21
4:22
4:49 (Basketball Player who had to break 6 minutes to make BBall team)
4:51
4/160
2.5%
Had to be at least 20 for us. The mile was the relevant distance back then. Our fastest was 4:08, second guy 4:10, third guy 4:12, fourth 4:16 (ran 4:10 the next year), fifth 4:17, and a few in the 4:20's. Might be off by a second or two - but these are in the ballpark.
It was a good team.
4/172. Everyone was between 4:30 and 4:50 in that group. One guy ran mid-major DI (he had run 15:40s in the 5K so he obviously became a 10K guy), two of us ran DIII, and the other guy, the second-fastest, just partied in college.
Just me. 1/90
We had a high jumper but nobody else ran. Our xc team was made up of me and a bunch of guys looking for a day off school.
To get on the team all you had to do was show up for 2 training runs.
2/47 (happened to have 30 guys in the class)
We had the potential for more, but I never got my head around the 1600 in high school, and some others never tried it:
We had:
4:50
4:52
5:07/10:19 (me)
2:04/17:45ish 5k cross
2:04/really skinny high jumper
Plus a few other guys who probably could have had they focused/competed in track - overall, my class was one of the most talented in quite a while at our school, despite a lack of any real standouts.
Not to quibble, but it's "in," not "of."
I will guess 9 guys and 1 girl for sure out of 400+
And roughly 7 3/4" but alas not all that thick
My high school graduating class was about 400. Out of that, we had just two guys break 5. One of those guys ran at XC D1 nationals this year, and the other is me (I ran 4:59 hand-timed on the 2nd leg of a 4x1600, I'm so good).
2 out of a graduating class of 12 = 16.7%
i went 4:52, he was 4:58. rural midwest, public school. we had a 4x8 that went 8:14 at one point, too (drawing from a pool of less than 30 juniors and seniors), but 4:58 was the only guy on that team who ever broke 5:00 in the 1600.
we had many wrote:
The mile was the relevant distance back then. Our fastest was 4:08, second guy 4:10, third guy 4:12, fourth 4:16 (ran 4:10 the next year), fifth 4:17
Not to quibble, but I question this line-up.
In theory you could have fielded a 4 x mile relay team capable of a sub-16:50, and even if you left your fastest guy at home could have been safely under 17:00.
The high-school record for the 4 x mile, which is almost 37 years old, is 17:06.6.
Would it be impolitic to ask you if you're full of poop?
We had 12 kids in my graduating class and we graduated with 501
my class was decent for being kinda small. we had close to 150 kids.
me - 4:28
another kid at 4:29
then a 4:34 kid, four kids between 4:38-4:40, and a basketball-converted-track kid at 4:4x. kind of dropped off after that though.
so 8 out of 150, not so bad, about 5%.
I was the only one.
4:53
Class size 55.
1.81%
No, not to quibble, it is accurate, although I may be slightly off on our third guy - a very, very good runner who actually beat Jim Spivey in a mile indoors that year (to be fair, Jim was doubling that day). He finished second to Scharsu at the Atlanta Track Classic in the 2 mile as Alan destroyed the field in 8:44 ish - but I think he ran 9:04 - so the 4:12 from memory I think is accurate. Our first runner was second in the Golden West, losing to Gregorek who had the fastest time in the nation that year in that same race, and our second runner won the Atlanta Track Classic in the mile in 4:10. The best of all was the fourth guy - only a junior - who did really well the next year. He ran 1:52 for the 880 that year. The fifth guy was a good runner also, and I think his time is accurate (he went Division III, and was highly sought after at that level). All were excellent students.
From my personal graduating class, there were probably 4-5 people that had done it.
4:22 me
4:48 friend
4:40s friend who quit after his junior year
4:50s (49 400m distance runner)
The only other guy that I know broke 5 minutes in the mile was a baseball kid who as a freshman rattled off a 4:55 like nothing.
740 something students.
We had 4 senior guys who were under 4:30 and our class was about 280. We had 4-5 other underclassman who were under or right at that mark as well.
With our team being pretty deep, I have no idea how many others we had who might have ran under 5 minutes. Maybe none, maybe a bunch? They'd all be JV anyway so I don't know.
Me - 4:16.
Next fastest - 5:11 (and he didn't run senior year).
98 people in my graduating class.
I did a lot of training alone.
Only serious distance runners in my graduating class of 500 were me and my friend. There was a soccer player who just broke 5 in indoor track, and my friend ran 4:51 outdoors.
2/500= .4%