He's met and exceeded expectations wrote:
jpurser1997 wrote:
His page on the Oregon website lists his pr as 4:01 for the mile, but 1500 is 3:41. Kind of sad seeing as he showed so much promise in high school.
Teare is right where people expected him to be. You don't expect every high school stud to become the best collegiate runner. People put too much expectations on them. In all honesty, we should be expecting high school studs to be above average. And looking at Cooper Teare, he's been well above average his entire college career. He was the Pac-12 XC freshman of the year in 2017; he was an honorable mention all-American in the 5k his freshman year; he ended up being 2nd at Pac-12 XC in 2019; he was like 6th or something at NCAA XC that year. He has multiple All-American honors by this point. Dude is good and has the honors and times to prove it. Just because you think every high school stud should win national titles doesn't mean he's a bust.
Also, we should point out that this 3:50 didn't necessarily come out of nowhere. Cooper ran a 3:55 split in their NCAA record DMR last year. And then a 3:54 split in their DMR just a couple weeks ago. It's really hard to run a fast mile leg for a DMR. By that point, the competition is usually too spread out to work off one another.
Once again, Teare is right where he should be and is doing extremely well. In two races a couple weeks ago, he straight up outclassed Kiptoo, who has been the most elite-looking college runner for well over the past year. Cooper's going to be getting those titles this year.
He's talking about Austin Tamagno, dummy. Way to waste 3 paragraphs.