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Fastest high school kids who never ran a step again after finishing high school?

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    1 year ago 01/29/2025 11:54am EST
    re: Jalapeno

    Not a guy, but a girl at my HS, ran cross country 1 year, ran like 17 something in the 5K and won regionals I believe. Then she just stopped running, no track just 1 Cross Country season - my track coach was obviously pissed. She beat a girl on our team going D1 multiple times. She just wasn't interested.

    She was like Parker Valby was thing, did a ton of cross training on the elliptical. It was unreal to watch. I don't even think she did summer training with the team and didn't do any other sport in HS. She played soccer prior (go figure, most good runners do).

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    8 months ago 09/22/2025 7:04pm EDT
    re: kingfischer42

    kingfischer42 wrote:

    Don't see anybody talking about Michael Slagowski?

    9th high schooler to break 4:00.

    Went to Penn State and then Eastern Oregon and raced for maybe a year but never broke 4:10 in the mile again. Hasn't raced since 2018.

    He won the NAIA national championship

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    Former high school sub 4 miler Michael Slagowski won an NAIA national championship today!
    OTCSucks03/03/2018 9:40pm EST8 years ago
    He anchored his team in the DMR and won the title by .01 seconds. I realize a NAIA champion is far from a D1 national championship but I'm still happy for the guy. It was obvious he wasn't in a good place last year at Penn St...
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    8 months ago 09/22/2025 7:09pm EDT
    re: runner nerd

    Kate Murphy 4:07 in high school

  • Naperville Runner

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    8 months ago 09/22/2025 9:26pm EDT
    re: Jalapeno

    This goes back many, many years but I remember "Eric Hulst" from CA in the late 1970's. He ran 8:40 before that was common and died too young from brain cancer

  • Pumping gas

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    8 months ago 09/23/2025 12:22am EDT
    re: SDSU Aztec

    SDSU Aztec wrote:

    perryx wrote:

    Lukas V walked away from a scholarship at Oregon after 2 races to pursue a triathlon career.

    He was quite the outlier. Without the accident, he probably would have returned to college within a year and been back on scholarship with Oregon or another school.

    Jim Brennan, Oceanside High, 1:52.25 880y in the late 70s. He was a bit overweight when he ran that time. Started to train on the Mira Costa Junior College team but then quit and started working at a gas station. Wonder what he is up to now?

  • Pumping gas

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    8 months ago 09/23/2025 12:34am EDT
    re: Pumping gas

    Pumping gas wrote:

    SDSU Aztec wrote:

    He was quite the outlier. Without the accident, he probably would have returned to college within a year and been back on scholarship with Oregon or another school.

    Jim Brennan, Oceanside High, 1:52.25 880y in the late 70s. He was a bit overweight when he ran that time. Started to train on the Mira Costa Junior College team but then quit and started working at a gas station. Wonder what he is up to now?

    Excuse me, he went to El Camino High in Oceanside. They won the California State meet with him, Dokie Williams and one other stud.

  • kumquat

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    8 months ago 09/23/2025 1:31am EDT
    re: Jalapeno

    Jalapeno wrote:

    Fastest high school kids who never ran a step again after finishing high school? (Ie never ran in college competitively or anything else to do with the sport even though they had the talent )

    Without naming any names name your examples.

    This was the year 2000 so couple decades ago. We had a guy on my team who was a dickhead. I think he ran 4:22 in the mile and was recruited at a d1. He was a real idiot (for a pickup speeding through school parking lot burning tires), but he had decent leg speed.

    There was another guy in my conference who ran a 910 3200m and went to a university in Florida and got hooked on drugs and he never competed again

    Those are just some examples off the top of my head

    4:22 is not that fast. Every high school has someone that can do that (might not know it). When I was in high school our QB/PG broke his leg and ran track for rehab. He busted out a 4:20 mile in the regional meet. Wasn't good enough for second on our team.

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    8 months ago 09/23/2025 1:33am EDT
    re: kumquat

    kumquat wrote:

    Jalapeno wrote:

    Fastest high school kids who never ran a step again after finishing high school? (Ie never ran in college competitively or anything else to do with the sport even though they had the talent )

    Without naming any names name your examples.

    This was the year 2000 so couple decades ago. We had a guy on my team who was a dickhead. I think he ran 4:22 in the mile and was recruited at a d1. He was a real idiot (for a pickup speeding through school parking lot burning tires), but he had decent leg speed.

    There was another guy in my conference who ran a 910 3200m and went to a university in Florida and got hooked on drugs and he never competed again

    Those are just some examples off the top of my head

    4:22 is not that fast. Every high school has someone that can do that (might not know it). When I was in high school our QB/PG broke his leg and ran track for rehab. He busted out a 4:20 mile in the regional meet. Wasn't good enough for second on our team.

    This guy agrees

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    4:20 IS NOT FAST FOR A HIGH SCHOOL MILE...
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