Second Yong-Sung Leal, FL qualifier (back when it was the only show in town), and then became a missionary?
Second Yong-Sung Leal, FL qualifier (back when it was the only show in town), and then became a missionary?
I agree with Claudia Lane. She was totally dominate as a high school runner.
It is also not uncommon for high school freshman and soph girls to run great early in high school but not be college level runners when they graduate high school. Body changes as they mature is the main reason, but there can be other reasons (boyfriend, drugs, bad grades, etc.) can play a factor.
perryx wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
It's difficult to believe a runner would turn down a scholarship. Do you have any examples of ones that did?
Lukas V walked away from a scholarship at Oregon after 2 races to pursue a triathlon career.
I was going to post the same thing.
Victoria Jordan Dunbar TX 11.16, class of 08
Sade Williams 52.35 400m class of 07
Jalapeno wrote:
There was another guy in my conference who ran a 910 3200m and went to a university in Florida and got hooked on drugs and he never competed again
Those are just some examples off the top of my head
By any chance did you go to high school in Maryland? And did this guy attend River Hill High School?
There was Wesley DeVoll - ran 15:13 at MtSAC, but never ran track (played tennis?)
Went to Yale but wasn't interested in running.
He seems to be doing OK:
I knew a kid in 9th grade track. Ran consistent 4:20 miles and would barf after finishing , every time. Never saw or heard from him again after that year.
There a lot of NAIA/D-2/D-3 talent ... wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
It's difficult to believe a runner would turn down a scholarship. Do you have any examples of ones that did?
I have seen it a lot with female athletes. Have their heart set on U. of Washington or UCLA or Cal Berkeley or U. of Michigan or U. of WI-Madison. Schools like those listed, flagship large public universities, power five conference schools make no offer, teenagers still may attend those schools. Ignore offers from say Central Washington, Cal State-Northridge, U. of WI-Milwaukee, Minnesota State-Mankato or U of IL-Chicago.
It is a pretty reasonable choice to focus on academics over athletics if you are smart.
Snavely wrote:
I agree with Claudia Lane. She was totally dominate as a high school runner.
It is also not uncommon for high school freshman and soph girls to run great early in high school but not be college level runners when they graduate high school. Body changes as they mature is the main reason, but there can be other reasons (boyfriend, drugs, bad grades, etc.) can play a factor.
She struggled with injuries senior year of college, but I think she gave it up because she fell out of love with running competitively and she had better and more fulfilling things to do with her time, but not because she could not come back. I don’t know any of this first hand, but hear from my daughter who is her peer and acquaintance. In essence Lane walked away.
Wise Old Man wrote:
Snavely wrote:
I agree with Claudia Lane. She was totally dominate as a high school runner.
It is also not uncommon for high school freshman and soph girls to run great early in high school but not be college level runners when they graduate high school. Body changes as they mature is the main reason, but there can be other reasons (boyfriend, drugs, bad grades, etc.) can play a factor.
She struggled with injuries senior year of college, but I think she gave it up because she fell out of love with running competitively and she had better and more fulfilling things to do with her time, but not because she could not come back. I don’t know any of this first hand, but hear from my daughter who is her peer and acquaintance. In essence Lane walked away.
I mean injuries senior year of HS.
Talent routinely gets overlooked in rural areas. In the not too distant past, small schools all across the country had zero exposure. Results might be posted in the local periodical. No internet postings. No FloTrack. No way to know if or get to bigger exposure meets.
This was true across all sports, T&F included.
malina yago ran at marymount high school in LA, graduated in 2018
ran 2:08 in the 800, second place at the state meet. always would race just enough to win, so probably would have run even faster if you put her in a big race
plays soccer at brown now, never wanted to run after high school despite the fact that any xctf program woulda let her do both soccer and track
Yung Republican wrote:
Yong-Sung Leal
He was one of my favorites. Both during and the stories after HS
Guy from my state ran 4:09 mile 50 years ago. Good enough to get recruited but to my knowledge never ran again.
There was a guy from my high school who was a state champ in XC, ran 15:02, state champ in the 1600 and 3200 in different years. Went to an elite XC school (to also play basketball believe it or not) and he got cancer like the first week of college season. Could have returned I believe but he didn’t feel like it.
Sticking with the Iowa theme. I listed the fastest girl to not run after high school and now here is one of the fastest boys.
Darien Porter
10.69
46.99
Liz Mueller CT
4 time NE XC champ
Kinney XC champ as a junior (did not defend)
2:05 800
became a champion professional boxer
Two of the kids on Radnor High School's (PA) 2019 7:43 4x800 (US#11) and 2020 10:22 DMR (US#8) aren't running in college. One ran 1:55.0/4:20.0 splits on those relays, and one split a 1:56 800. The 1200 leg on the DMR also isn't running in college. Most random group of people to ever be nationally competitive
The world records from the 100 to 400 would be very different if there was no NFL.
Also the world records in the shot put, discus, long jump, triple jump and the javelin.
https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2021/05/04/fastest-nfl-players-100-meters-track/
Way back when HS kid Frank Lombardi jumped the gun at the Cali state champs, so he gets moved back a yard, ha! At the gun.....zoom...he's gone, stopped the watchs at 9.6 to tie the world record, not the HS record, the World Record.
101 yards world record.
We would never hear of Frank Lombardi again.