Roisin Willis=greatest hs range currently

Roisin Willis, the beautiful Irish lass at the end of the rainbow and daughter of an Olympian. She's me lucky charm!

cool! wrote:

Now, I know she get most of her hype from some incredible 400 (53) and 800 (2:03) times, but honestly people tend to forget how wide her range is. She competed and got 3rd this year at the D1 Wisconsin state meet, which along with her 1600 times leads me to believe this girl has the greatest range we have seen in a long time. I honestly think in college she could do anything from the 5k to 400 and dominate. she’s that good, plus has the genes for it too. Really exciting to see what she does in the future.

dont forget Caitlin Collier

I saw her run at last November's Nike Heartland. She was hard to miss: I think most spectators saw her burst to the front of the pack at the start. Yeah, the burst of speed from the striking (tall, powerful) girl at the start caught a lot of attention. She ended up finishing in 36th.

At distances of 400/800/1600/Mile she's formidable. At longer distances though, I think her size (she looks 6' to me) probably limits her performance.

Don't count her out. She is tall but still has an immature look about her. I expect that she will make a run for nationals in cross country. But the 1500 will probably end being her best event.

Juliette Whittaker also a sophomore has the most range.

An 800 match between them would be a great race.

0:55.74 - 400 - (last year, did not run this year)

2:03.01 - 800 - indoor #1, Willis was #2 in 2:03.05

4:43.89 - mile - indoor #3 (2nd at Millrose, Willis was 5th in 4:49 which is her PR)

10:23.14 - 3200 - indoor #5

13th at Footlocker

This Thread should be retitled Juliette Whittaker has amazing range

Roisen Willis and many other top middle distance and distance Runner have really good range

I don't see how willis' is range is anyting out of the ordinary when there's lots of girls who have really good range at the high school level

Katelyn Tuohy Dudek starliper Starcher Hutchins Lauren ping and probably about fifty other girls all have really good range

Katelyn Tuohy Dudek and starliper are basically the best milers 2 milers 5K and if they ran a 10K.... and they also are pretty competitive nationally at the 1 K and 800

Willis is basically nationally Elite at the 400 and 800 almost nationally Elite at the mile, and then probably a really good 2 Mile and 5K Runner.... and I'm using a Elite to mean somewhere from Top 20 to 50 in the country

Anyway interesting thread just retitle it Juliette Whittaker and you really have something. Again Willis is an awesome Runner and definitely has great range but it doesn't seem that out of the ordinary

Taylor James, Niwot CO, last year as a sophomore:

12.48

24.76

54.25

2:05

4:49

HJ 5'-8.5"

5k xc 17:37

Roisin is more impressive than Whittaker

Roison has more range than any other girl. Someone mentioning distance runners? They have no range. None are natiinal class in the 800 which is typical for the best high school distance runners. Think of Cain or Hunter. That is range. The current female HS distance runners? No range. Some of the guys like Dashbach and Culpepper have range.

cool! wrote:

Now, I know she get most of her hype from some incredible 400 (53) and 800 (2:03) times, but honestly people tend to forget how wide her range is. She competed and got 3rd this year at the D1 Wisconsin state meet, which along with her 1600 times leads me to believe this girl has the greatest range we have seen in a long time. I honestly think in college she could do anything from the 5k to 400 and dominate. she’s that good, plus has the genes for it too. Really exciting to see what she does in the future.

Sorry but that's not impressive range. I would expect the top 800 runner in the nation to be able to place better than 3rd in a small state in the 1600, and have a decent 400 time.

Guys can we stop just making stuff up and living in Fantasyland!

Clearly Whittaker has better range

Whittaker is just as good in the 400 and 800 as Willis

She's better in the mile and much better in the two mile and 5K

Whittaker was 36 ranked in Cross Country Willis was 206

Whittaker was also 6 seconds better in the mile slightly better in the 800 and if they ran it way better in the 2-mile

Willis has really good range and she's a really good runner but it's nothing that's so remarkable or even as good as Whittaker or the other runner at someone mentioned

Katelyn Tuohy when she was at her best was dominant in the mile, 2 mile, 5K, and 10K ( if they ran it ) thats 4 distances

Starliper and Dudek Victoria starcher and a bunch of others are also really good over a lot of distances

Willis is top 10 in the country in the 400 in the 800. 2 events!

She might be like 25 to 50 in the mile

Probably like a 150th in a 2-mile

And like 200 at the 5 K

Whitakers top 50 at all those distances better range!

Exactly! She's an awesome 800-meter Runner who is also really good at 5Ks

But she's not among the very best so it's really nothing that out of the ordinary

There's tons of girls who are faster at 5Ks and a little bit slower at 800

Anyway definitely has good range but if you really want to recognize someone who has exceptional range it's Whittaker. Top 50 in the country at everything from the 400 through the 5K is pretty amazing

name check wrote:

Roisin is more impressive than Whittaker

If running slower times makes you more impressive than yeah she's more impressively slower

Willis was .04 slower than Whittaker in the 800 but Willis actually ran it in a real race where she had to navigate traffic, make moves, and pass people. Whittaker's was essentially a time trial.

Willis is also 3 seconds FASTER in the 400. She ran 52.70 FAT as a relay split running the entire first turn in lane 2 as she passed 4 teams. As a freshman. She'd beat 99% of MEN distance runners in the 400.

Most girls who can run 52 in the 400 don't even run cross country and yet Roisin has run sub 18 multiple times. That's damn impressive considering she's extremely fast twitch.

https://www.stevenspointjournal.com/story/sports/high-school/2019/06/02/wiaa-state-track-spash-relay-team-wins-division-1-championship/1319120001/

Video of her 52.70 if you have a milesplit account:

https://wi.milesplit.com/videos/392401

She is awesome!!!

https://youtu.be/4W9XDBqgdf4

She's an awesome Runner

But the whole point of the thread was that she has amazing range

And it was mentioned in the thread that two girls clearly have way better range

There's no arguing Whittaker has way better range

Whittaker is a top 20 runner at every distance

Willis is like arguably somewhere between 200 and 400 in the country in Cross Country

She came in 38th in her region at Nike which puts are around 400 in the country if you count Nike and Footlocker evenly

Again I'm not arguing she's not an awesome Runner I'm just saying the whole thread is misguided because there are girls with clearly better range

Whittaker and the other girl who is mentioned in the thread are two of them

And you can argue that a lot of the distance runners AR top 20 in the country from everything from the 1500 through 5K which is more impressive range

Willis is only top 20 in the country in two events the 400 and the 800.

She's not some range King! Great Runner but I'm point it out other people have better range

Honestly what's to argue there's been clear evidence that other girls have better range

First number is state, 2nd and the higher number is your national ranking

I know some of these girls have improved but these are there legit rankings from the last season that was fully completed

TAYLOR JAMES

2019 Outdoor Rankings

CO National

100m 12.48 30th 2,150th

200m 24.76 6th 477th

1600m 4:59.35 9th 261st

400m 54.25 2nd 39th

800m 2:05.83 1st 7th

HJ 5-6 9th 183rd

2019 CC Rankings

CO National

5000m 17:45.51 14th 180th

Willis

2019 Outdoor Rankings

WI National

100m 13.10 163rd 10,084th

200m 25.58 19th 1,735th

1600m 4:53.26 1st 68th

400m 54.67 2nd 63rd

800m 2:04.86 1st 4th

2019 CC Rankings

WI National

5000m 17:49.00 4th 217th

Whitaker

2019 Outdoor Rankings

MD National

1600m 4:48.12 1st 23rd

400m 55.74 9th 201st

800m 2:05.25 1st 6th

3200m 11:41.47 34th 2,302nd

2019 CC Rankings

MD National

5000m 17:16.00 2nd 55th

3Mile 17:23.80 1st 146th

Tuohy

2019 Outdoor Rankings

NY National

800m 2:11.01 9th 88th

1500m 4:25.21 1st 3rd

3000m 9:21.90 1st 2nd

3200m 9:53.30 1st 1st

Mile 4:46.24 1st 12th

2019 CC Rankings

NY National

5000m 16:22.80 1st 2nd

3Mile 16:08.30 1st 5th

4000m 13:33.20 1st 1st

Tuohy smokes them all! She is top five in the country from everything from the 1500 up and realistically top 3... and for two seasons she was undoubtably the top in the country 1500 and up every events.

But if you want to say to be competitive nationally my money would be on Whittaker cuz she can compete in everything from the 400 to cross country and have a legitimate chance to be top 20

Willis is good but no way she is going top 20 in the country in cross country