Drew hunter, justyn knight, Grant Fisher

The Future of North American 5k wrote:

Man BTC is doing something right! Grant Fisher 13:11 for 5k last night as the bowerman rookie. certainly much to come from him in the future. Justyn Knight ran 13:09 last year as well, probably the next great talent up North besides Mo Ahmed. Drew Hunter coming back from injury still sitting with a 13:21. It’ll be interested to see how this year unfolds for the three of them.

Senior year PRs mile/3200

Fisher 3:59.38/8:53

Hunter 3:57.81/8:43

Knight 3:59.57 /8:59 (converted from 8:23 3k)

PRs as of July 1, 2020.

1500/3000/5000

Fisher 3:39.6 7:39.99 13:11

Hunter 3:35.9 7:39.85 13:21

Knight 3:36.07 7:45.86 13:09

Drew is 1 year younger than the other two

Fischer ran an 8:43 2-mile as a senior and Hunter ran 8:42 in the same race. Hunter was sick with Lyme Disease as a senior and otherwise could have run at least in the low 8:30s.

It's amazing that as fast as 13:11 is, it's a slower pace than Bekele's 10000 WR.

Uh Hunter is the same age as Fisher. Both 1997. Knight is 1996.

Hunter just graduated high school late.

They both graduated at 18, as the overwhelming majority of high schoolers do. I don’t understand why this is so difficult for LRC posters.

I graduated and went to college at 17, and ran a 4:08 mile before turning 18.

Cool story. You don’t fall into the overwhelming majority.

In the US, people born in September are far, far more likely to graduate at 18 years and 8 months than 17 years and 8 months.

Fisher and Hunter both graduated at the significantly most common year for their date of birth.

Everyone is correct. They were a year apart but in the correct grades. They are the same age for competitions outside of high school though. They both moved out of the junior category in the same year. They were the same age for AAU and USATF youth competitions. And at this point in life, they are no longer in high school so they are the same age.

fact czech wrote:

They both graduated at 18, as the overwhelming majority of high schoolers do. I don’t understand why this is so difficult for LRC posters.

Letsrun is obsessed with the exact ages of people.

The Future of North American 5k wrote:

Man BTC is doing something right! Grant Fisher 13:11 for 5k last night as the bowerman rookie. certainly much to come from him in the future. Justyn Knight ran 13:09 last year as well, probably the next great talent up North besides Mo Ahmed. Drew Hunter coming back from injury still sitting with a 13:21. It’ll be interested to see how this year unfolds for the three of them.

Senior year PRs mile/3200

Fisher 3:59.38/8:53

Hunter 3:57.81/8:43

Knight 3:59.57 /8:59 (converted from 8:23 3k)

PRs as of July 1, 2020.

1500/3000/5000

Fisher 3:39.6 7:39.99 13:11

Hunter 3:35.9 7:39.85 13:21

Knight 3:36.07 7:45.86 13:09

Drew is 1 year younger than the other two

Just to clarify, Hunter is 3 or 4 months younger than Fisher and has been running professionally for the past 5 years. As well, Hunters senior high school times were done when he should have been a college freshman.

All three are excellent runners and will be competing against each other for a long time.

As has been pointed out already but apparently missed by you, Hunter did graduate at the much more normal age for someone born in September, not a year later. Fisher was born in April, Hunter in September.

the beagle wrote:

bake me a cake wrote:

Just to clarify, Hunter is 3 or 4 months younger than Fisher and has been running professionally for the past 5 years. As well, Hunters senior high school times were done when he should have been a college freshman.

All three are excellent runners and will be competing against each other for a long time.

As has been pointed out already but apparently missed by you, Hunter did graduate at the much more normal age for someone born in September, not a year later. Fisher was born in April, Hunter in September.

Is this true? Where I'm from nearly everyone who graduated together had the same birth year. I.e. 93 graduated with 93, 94 with 94, etc...

What are the stats on this?

McGorty > Fisher at 1500-5000. Probably better than him at 10000m as well.

Correct. Don't get why you would ignore the faster Mcgorty?

Also you mention Mo Ahmed. As fast as he is he is not as fast as Kincaid.

Amory wrote:

the beagle wrote:

As has been pointed out already but apparently missed by you, Hunter did graduate at the much more normal age for someone born in September, not a year later. Fisher was born in April, Hunter in September.

Is this true? Where I'm from nearly everyone who graduated together had the same birth year. I.e. 93 graduated with 93, 94 with 94, etc...

What are the stats on this?

In my state, which is Hunter’s state, you Typically start school when you are 5 by October 1. I was born in 1986. I started school in 1991 when I was 4, because I turned 5 on September 12. There were kids a year behind me in school who were just 3 weeks younger than I was.

Drew was likely held back to start the next year, which is a very easy accommodation to make. I’d recommend it to any parents.

So class of 2020 is kids born between 10/1/2002-9/30/2013, unless parents opt for an exception, which again is nothing controversial.

Amory wrote:

the beagle wrote:

As has been pointed out already but apparently missed by you, Hunter did graduate at the much more normal age for someone born in September, not a year later. Fisher was born in April, Hunter in September.

Is this true? Where I'm from nearly everyone who graduated together had the same birth year. I.e. 93 graduated with 93, 94 with 94, etc...

What are the stats on this?

Most states would have been 9/1/2002-8/31/2003 so he would have been in the correct grade in most states.

Yes, Sean McGorty definitely needs to be included on this list of young rising stars. Hopefully there will be more in the near future.

Mo is faster than all of them and has the medals at big events; however he is quite a bit older.

Downer it goes wrote:

Most states would have been 9/1/2002-8/31/2003 so he would have been in the correct grade in most states.

Yes absolutely. My graduating class had kids born from June '89 to August '90, with plenty of September birthdays. I'm sure other states may do it differently, but September birthdays would usually be included within the lower cutoff. It's true that he may have benefited from being a few months older than the 'average' kid in his graduating class (at an age where every month of development matters) but he was in-fact a HS senior competing against other HS seniors, and not a college freshman (as another poster suggested).

It will be interesting to see if these guys make it to a WC or Olympics in the 5K, and if they can close well enough to get out of the heats and then perform well in a final...

...like Knight has done, twice already (I'm thinking Knight's two top 10's are good results, but I'm sure JK or the other two wouldn't be completely satisfied, wanting to always do better).