Who has faster times in your HS? Sprinters who participated in Football or Distance Runners who participated in XC?
Who has faster times in your HS? Sprinters who participated in Football or Distance Runners who participated in XC?
Middle distance runners? My 4x4 was a sprinter a message distance guy and 2 long distance guys.
The best 4x440 (early 80’s and my home track was still imperial) team my school had in a long time was my junior year. The lead leg was a running back/100x220 guy, the middle 2 legs were 880 guys, and I was the anchor and was teams 440 specialist.
My school record team (3:22) in mid 90's in norcal :
800 specialist, 400/800 , 400, anchor was 300M Hurdler, alternate was 800/1600 runner
Soph HS: : Varsity relay: 200/400 - two legs of relay; 200-400-800 - one leg of relay; anchor was football TE who ran 110m HH, but switched to 400m for the district and state meet. The football TE ran 46.9 and switched because another 110m HH runner in the state could not be beaten.
Junior HS: 400/800 (1600m) led off (senior); 400m/800m was 2nd leg (soph); 200m was 3rd (junior); 400m/800m was anchor. Time: 3:16+
Senior HS: would have been 200/400m lead off (senior); 200m 2nd (senior); 400m/800m 3rd (junior); 400m/800m anchor (senior). Expected time: 3:14
College: 200m/400m runners run 4 x 400m, maybe 1 runner was 400m runner.
Times: Very fast D1.
Our 4x4 varied
Our lead off leg was a 51 open guy who ran 51-52 for the lead off a lot, my coach always said it was harder to run fast because the others were basically rolling start 400s
Then a sprinter who ran 52 relay leg as a soph and 24.16
Then another sprinter who ran 52 as a soph
We had a guy who ran 51.x (50.9 split one time but he felt it might’ve been timed wrong) he was a mid distance guy who ran 4:27 as a junior and 1:58 as a soph, guy could anchor like you’d never seen
We had another guy who was in the 53-54 range who ran in the mid 23s for the 200 as a soph but he had been injured a bit so he never got to his full potential
And a mid distance runner who ran about 53-54 indoors and ran 2:03 on a flat track that year (he started off as a 2:45-50 guy as a frost)
They were all in and out of rotation based off of injuries and who preformed the best, but we also had a nbn qualifier in the SMR
My hs team my junior year ran 3:22. Consisted of:
100/200m runner (49), 1/2/4 runner (50ish), 800/1600 (aka me, 51), and 1/2/4 runner (52, he was a sophomore who ran 46 when he was older).
So 3 sprinters and an MD/distance.
I think the bigger/stronger the team, the more likely to have 3 or 4 sprinters. Smaller teams tend to augment with distance runners. It seems like a lot of teams can get a distance guy to run 51, 52, 53 range, so if they're lacking 4 sprinters at 52 or faster, some distance guys fill in. Distance guys seems to be a little more consistently available regardless of team size.
My high school 4X400 meter relay team consisted of two 200/400 guys, an 800 guy, and a mile/two mile guy.
I don't really understand the question. I coach high school track. The 4x4 consists of the best four guys in the 400. They usually range from 48-50 seconds and split 47-49. Occasionally, one of the guys may also be capable of running a 1:53 800 but not normally.
kore wrote:
Who has faster times in your HS? Sprinters who participated in Football or Distance Runners who participated in XC?
Three Am. football players plus me, a former Am. football player. One was a 200-400 guy, two were 400-800 guys and me, a 200m to 3200m, a whatever guy. I was the 5th fastest 200m guy, 5th fast 400m guy, 2nd fastest 800m, 2nd fastest 1600m & 3rd fastest 3200m guy but I was usually on 4 x 400m relay.
coach of the best wrote:
I don't really understand the question. I coach high school track. The 4x4 consists of the best four guys in the 400. They usually range from 48-50 seconds and split 47-49. Occasionally, one of the guys may also be capable of running a 1:53 800 but not normally.
Are you claiming that the teams you coach typically run 3:12?
Are you coaching a Texas 6A HS?
On the HS team I mentioned in a previous post, my junior year the lead-off runner was 49.1 and ran 1:52.5. He could have run 4:10 for the 1600m, having run 4:16 as a junior, but didn't run the 1600m that year (I did,, and I ran the 800). The anchor ran 1:54.9, and 48.2 split.
It is true that the 200m runner on the relay my junior year ran a 20.9 relay split for a 4 x 200m, so that is more typical of HS 4x 400m relay members.
My senior year two of the relay runners were capable of running 1:52 or faster, and one would have run low 47s, the other mid-48s.
As for my sophomore year, that was 3 sprinters and the 200-400-800 runner. The latter ran 23.0, 48.9 and 1:53.8. The anchor was 10.5 hand-timed, and when running 46.9 the 2nd time he ran a 400, he went out in 22.0 (hand-timed split).
One sprinter and two of our MD guys. Spring coach took full credit as he would take our guys and have them do 15m and 50m flies, ruining them for the 2s/4s we’d have them do.
An average year is probably 3:15. Some years are better and some are worse but not by much. 46 teams broke 3:16 last outdoor season (2019).
coach of the best wrote:
An average year is probably 3:15. Some years are better and some are worse but not by much. 46 teams broke 3:16 last outdoor season (2019).
TX or CA HS.
My HS 4x400m consisted of a 400m specialist, a LJ/TJ guy who placed top 3 in the state in both events, a state class TJ'er who also ran the 4x800m and a 1600m-3200m runner. We weren't very good and typically ran around 3:30.
At my current school, our fastest boy 400m runners in 2019 were a 1600m-3200m runner, an 800m/1600m runner, a hurdler, and a miler. On the girls' end, it was three 800m runners and jack of all trades sprinter.
My high school ran 3:17, and we had 2 400m specialists who were 2nd and 3rd in the state, one distance runner who was just a really quick miler, and a 110m hurdler with a lot of talent. So a variation of both, just whoever had the most talent.