Who were your state's high school running stars when you competed/were still in high school? How far did they go in the sport?

Leroy Neal. 1954 Fullerton CA. Ran 4:12 as Junior. I think 4: 08 next year (I was gone ) then went on to run 4:04 in college in CA. His bro Grady ran track too, but not at that level.

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Leroy Neal. 1954 Fullerton CA. Ran 4:12 as Junior. I think 4: 08 next year (I was gone ) then went on to run 4:04 in college in CA. His bro Grady ran track too, but not at that level.

He's still coaching at age 77! Seems like a great guy.

Leroy Burrell

Pennsylvania, 1985

His team won the state meet by virtue of him winning the 100, 200, LJ and TJ

He managed to perform fairly well as a collegiate and post-collegiate

I managed a medal in the HH but never did set a world record

Adam Goucher

Jay Johnson

Tommy Reese

I think they turned out ok

Michael stember, Michael Granville, Jason Balkman, Julia stamps…and Sara Bei. At least one of them is pretty well known!

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Michael stember, Michael Granville, Jason Balkman, Julia stamps…and Sara Bei. At least one of them is pretty well known!

stember was a good LRC meme back in the day

It was Dathan Ritzenhein.

VA (2000XC-2004)

Freshman year:

Webb

Lockhart

Carlstrom (D’Amato)

Sophomore:

Keally

Junior:

Merritt

Keino

Midlothian 4x800

McCorory

Bowman (Brown)

Beury

Senior:

Some of the juniors above

Landry

Mix

Scott

NJ, 1982-84

Brad Hudson, XC state champ '83, 3200 indoor (not sure about outdoor) champ '83, 3rd at Footlocker nattys '84, went on to Oregon, PAC 12 (?) XC champ, 2:13 marathon pr, professional coach

John Carlotti, XC state champ "82, 800 and 1600 champ '83, 1:51, 4:07, went to Oregon, not much after, antique dealer in OR

Andy Martin, XC state champ '84, went to UVA, hadn't heard much since, maybe an IT guy?

Joe Lemay, Ridgewood HS, 1985 I think 4:12, 9:10, went on to Princeton, won Olympic trials Marathon and 10K, I think ran low 28, 2:13 hi PR, engineer in MA

Carlotti and Hudson were coached by Mark Wetmore FWIW.

Evan Jager (same graduating class) and Chris Derrick. They did some stuff post high school.

not too shabby wrote:

Michael stember, Michael Granville, Jason Balkman, Julia stamps…and Sara Bei. At least one of them is pretty well known!

Brah, Balkman won boys DI Cali XC in 1992…do you recall who won boys DI Cali XC in 1993? Admittedly slower than Balkmans time but that dude was Meb.

Jeff See, John Ealy, Michael Veatch lookin at the XC state meet results from 2004. No idea what those guys did.

Ted Ginn in track, and hes had a long NFL career. Beat the entire state 110mh field by a half a second.

John Tuttle & Pete Pfitzinger

Grant Fisher and Donavon Brazier.

i was in wisconsin 2003-2007. missed solinsky by a year i think. i was in a small-ish school in the northwestern part of the state so didn't often mix it up with the big names from the madison/milwaukee metros. of those, andrew perkins is the only one i've seen mentioned on here before. he ran 1:52 and 4:11 at the state meet as a junior in 2007. looks like he didn't run his senior year. i think somebody mentioned that he eventually ran 1:49.

I graduated HS in 1981. In NY/NJ region the dominant runners that come to mind were Vince Draddy (class of 79), John Marshall (81) and Mike Stahr (83). There were others as well, but off the top of my head, these were the three best middle distance track runners. Of course Marshall was the most successful of the three, but Stahr and Draddy had nice college careers.

The only two I remember are John Gregorek and Odis Sanders.

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The only two I remember are John Gregorek and Odis Sanders.

Yes, Gregorek for sure. I think he was HS class of 78? I don’t remember Odis from HS days.

Reaching way back (I graduated in 1975) I remember Keith Francis of Attleboro MA who went on the BC who went on to NCAA success in the 800 I think. He and his teammates had a pretty good DMR I recall. Nichols, Silvia, and Conley I think were the other three but this is a long time ago. Keith Whitaker from Norwell ran 2:12/2:00 to win the state mile in 4:12 in 1973 and went on the Nebraska. Bob Hodge from Lowell I think won the Class A 2 mile. And there was this kid named Salazar who was 1 year behind me who was pretty fast at 2 miles in HS. Bill Martin of Catholic Memorial was the good 800 (actually 1 /2 mile back then) my senior year and won class A XC several times I think.