Percent of your High School's XC Top 7 who continued to run in college?

First High School-1st in KY 2a Freshman Year

1. Started at Juco (rend lake)

2. D3

3. D1

4. D3 transfered to D1

5. NAIA

6. ran senior year only D1

7. nope

Second High School-1st in SC 4a Senior Year (I will use a lettering because the order was never the same twice in a row)

A. D1

B. Walk on D1 (FSU)

C. D1 2 years now trying hand at Decathlon

D. Only a sophomore now, winning state championships left and right

E. Nope

F. Nope

G. Nope

I. D1 Soccer, coach also had him run xc a couple meets freshman year

Yes I know that's 8, the 6, 7, 8 spots were very close together

a little background wrote:

#1 - 4:07 miler - yes - div. 1.

#2 - 4:09 miler - yes - div. 1

#3 - 4:12 miler (jr) - 4:09 miler sr. - yes div. 1

#4 - 9:04 two miler - yes div. 1

#5 - 4:17 miler - Div. III

#6 - 9:20 two miler - walk-on Div. 1 - two years on div. 1 team

#7 - 9:50 two miler - NAIA

Yes, we won the state meet easily - twice.

I don't know if someone said this already, I won't read through the whole thread. But what the heck is a 9:04 2 miler doing losing to a 4:07, 4:09, and 4:12 in XC?? I know the 4:07/4:09 conversions are faster than a 9:04 two mile, but I would expect the 2 miler to be better in XC in high school. Also, what were those guys' 2 mile PRs?

1993-1994

#1 All-Am D1 BCS Conf School

#2 D1, BCS Conf School, later Olympian

#3 D1, BCS Conf School

#4 D1, Ivy

#5 JC

#6 JC

#7 D1, Mid Major

1994-1995

#1 D1, BCS Conf School, later Olympian

#2 D1, BCS Conf School

#3 D1, Mid Major

#4 D1, Mid Major

#5 D1, BCS Conf School

#6 D1, BCS Conf School

#7 No

1995-1996

#1 D1, BCS Conf School, later Olympian

#2 D1, BCS Conf School

#3 D1, BCS Conf School, 8:48 Steeple

#4 D1, Mid Major

#5 D1, BCS Conf School

#6 D1, BCS Conf School, All-Amer

#7 D1, Ivy

which school did you run in "a little background." I coach at the HS level and those times are sick. I think we would know your team. let us know!

Most of the top runners on my two years of Highschool XC went to the same NAIA school.

We were better in track than cross country. The times are verifiable.

I never really bought into all of the high school hype - again - it was a very well off town, mostly Jewish in ethnic make-up (especially now) that took academics and career type stuff seriously. All of us lead quiet professional lives (some are incredibly successful) and it was a great small town suburban experience.

The most gratifying feedback came from Joe Newton, having beat his teams twice (a rare event back then). His gracious words were the highest form of praise any of us received.

# 1: No

# 2: Arkansas

# 3: Trevecca Nazarene Univ./ TAMUCC (Soccer)

# 4: Wofford College

# 5: Lousiana- Lafayette (Soccer)

# 6: No

# 7: No

starmiler wrote:

So were those times -- 4:07 etc. -- what they ran in college? Because if those were high school times, I'd be seriously impressed and curious what school you went to...

Meanwhile, to participate in this exercise: I was on a Texas state high school championship x-country team and our top guy went to Oregon on a ride, I went to Stanford, and our third man went to the University of Texas at Austin. We all did fairly well. I don't think any of the rest of our teammates ran in college.

It's interesting that good college runners very seldom arrive from a program that doesn't bring other people along, too.

Does anyone know of a top h.s. runner who came from a h.s. program that was otherwise poor? I can think of a couple of people, but not many...

andre williams. armstrong hs had more shootings than d1 athletes by far

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1. Yes, D1 4:15 miler

2. Yes, D1 9:19 2 mile

3. Yes, D3 9:25 2 mile

4. Yes, D1 4:23 mile

5. Yes, D3 9:47 2 mile

6. Yes, D1 4:20 mile

7. Yes, D1 1:53 800

if you ran for deerfield...

yes they are verifiable, but the times you listed for the top three milers are not correct (unless they are relay splits).

still impressive.

1987 Cross Country Team:

No. 1-Rice University

No. 2-Southeastern Louisiana

No. 3-Southeastern Louisiana

No. 4-Houston Baptist University

No. 5-No

No. 6-Univerity of Texas-Tennis Scholarship(number 1 player)

No. 7-Lousiana State University-Golf Scholarship

Ranked number 2 in state all year behind Conroe McCullough (with a couple of wins over Humble Kingwood) until Regionals, where I ran like crap(34th) and didn't qualify for state. Still hurts 20 some odd years later. Tennis and Golfer would run around 17:00 5k consistently. Not bad especially for the goler since some people say golfers are not athletes, lol.

So, that would be 57.12% ran D1 and 85.68% competed in some type of D1 sport. Not bad considering we only had ten guys.

Team was 15th Place at MN State Meet in 2002 listed are approximate 5k PRs and that year and their year in school

1. Sr 16:20 -- No running in college

2. Sr 16:20 --Went to D3 college his mother taught at quit after his coach told him to "run 5 miles at 5k pace" for practice

3. Sr 16:40 -- No running in college and may not have finished high school

4. Jr 17:00 -- No running in college

5. Sr(me) 17:23 -- Ran D3 (poorly ~15:40 5k), this was my first year of high school cross country

6. Jr 17:24 -- No running in college

7. Sr 18:30 -- No running in college

If you couldn't guess we did a lot of mile repeats with full rest, 400m repeats with full rest and never ran longer than 8 miles (averaged probably 4-5 miles a day with every Sunday off).

soph year1. jr. 1700 5k2. jr. 1700 5k3. so. 1715 5k4. sr. 1720 5k, stopped running5. sr. 1720 5k, stopped running6. so. 1750 5k7. so. 1800 5k0/2 out of the graduated seniors (0%)junior year1. sr (prev. # 1) 1610 5k, D1 transfered to D32. sr (prev. # 2) 1620 5k, D23. jr (prev. # 3) 1645 5k4. jr (prev. # 6) 1730 5k5. jr (prev. NR) 1740 5k6. sr (prev. NR) 1745 5k, stopped running7. jr (prev. # 7) 1750 5k2/3 out of graduated seniors (66%)senior year1. sr. (prev. # 3) 1640 5k, D32. sr. (prev. NR) 1700 5k, D1 then quit/injured, still (attempts) runs [me]3. sr. (prev. # 4) 1725 5k, NAIA4. sr. (prev. # 5) 1730 5k, NAIA5. so. (prev. NR) 1735 5k6. jr. (prev. NR) 1745 5k7. fr. 1800 5k4/4 out of graduated seniors (100%)

Picture Me Trollin RB wrote:

Percent of your High School's XC Top 7 who continued to run in college?

I'll start...

team was like 8th in the state of CT my senior year

....2 out of 7 or ~28.6% continued running at NCAA level

#1 - NCAA D1

#2 - nope

#3 - NCAA D3

#4 - attended Ivy but didnt run

#5 - tried out for D1 school as a frosh but got cut

#6 - nope

#7 - nope

#1 - NCAA DIII (this was me)

#2 - nope

#3 - nope (this guy did eventually manage a 2:42 marathon though)

#4 - nope

#5 - nope

#6 - nope

#7 - nope

#1 - D1 (Big 10)

#2 - D1 xc skiing

#3 - D2

#4 - D3

#5 - D1 (Ivy)

#6 - no, top 15 collegiate triathlete

#7 - D3

Not bad for a girls team.

#1 D3

#2 Ivy

#3 Ivy

#4 D2 - quit

#5 D3

#6 D1 big east

#7 D2- quit

Agree with the above poster that "a little background" looks like the '77 Deerfield, IL team. Rated #1 in the country I believe with their top 5 under 15:00 at state.

If memory serves, Todd McAllister (4:07), Mark McAllister (4:09), Tom Stevens (4:09), Keith Hampton (9:04)

deerfield:

tom mccallister 407.1 conversion (348.8 1500m) 1978

mark mccallister 409.0 mile 1978

tom stevens 4.10.0 mile conversion (4:08.6 1600m) 1979

pretty sick.