I’ve seen another source as well, so it’s probably fair to assume he did run XC at the Naval Academy. And it is a D1 school, so it is not a stretch to call it one. That’s like saying it’s “a stretch” to call a 5’5 man a man.
He never engaged in what any of us would consider D1 competition. Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and the rest do not resemble that. As another has mentioned, that’s closer to intramurals than Patriot League or Heps or whatever. If he’d even run just once on a Navy varsity squad against Army, I could sorta see it. But that clearly never happened.
The thread about the guy wondering if he should go pro or not got me thinking. Are there any former D1 runners that found career success outside of running? Who has had the most? Someone I can think of is Mikel Jollett.
I like how you say it like no college runner had a any bit of a life beyond college running.
The thread about the guy wondering if he should go pro or not got me thinking. Are there any former D1 runners that found career success outside of running? Who has had the most? Someone I can think of is Mikel Jollett.
I like how you say it like no college runner had a any bit of a life beyond college running.
That is the impression you'd get if you read enough letsrun.
There is that…possibly the man who made the most $. But I think some people are forgetting about a couple of guys who created a running website and….well…ummmm…oh forget it.
The real brains behind that website was a D1 steeplechaser at Penn St
Chris Brewer deserves an honorable mention after winning a poker tournament for 5.3 million dollars earlier this year. Ran at Nike University for the Ducks.
Yahyah Abdul-Mateen (Aquaman, Trial of the Chicago 7, Black Mirror, Matrix Revolutions) was a track star at the University of California Berkley in the hurdles
Jacob Frey was the top distance runner in the early 2000s at W&M behind Ed Moran and Sean Graham and represented the US at the Pan American games then became mayor of Minneapolis
Quarterback Robert Griffin III was an Olympic trials semi-finalist in the long hurdles
Youtuber Grace Helbing was a pole vaulter. I can't remember if she did it at college too.
It's also been mentioned that Adam Tenedordte from that really low scoring team at Stanford in the early 2000s did something notable
Shoot man, I ran with a D1 team (Oregon) for two years but never made the team and I currently own 4 companies which profit over 1m a MONTH. And I'm nothing. I'm sure there are thousands if not tens of thousands of athletes who are more successful than me financially speaking.
Jim Ryun was pretty much a rubber stamp republican. Never heard of him proposing legislation or heading a committee, not that that is a definition of success.
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