Over here you’ll see how early the varsity girls started running. Sam McDonnell — 73.36 in 2015 in the 400. Can’t find her results from a longer distance until 9th grade Morgan Nygren - 12:22 in 2016 in 3200 Ailish Hawkins - 3:07 in 2013 in 800 Tiffany Sax - 7:21 in 2013 in the 1500 Danielle Brotcke - 3:05 in the 800 in 2014 Samantha Spaulding - 5:34 in the 1500 in 2018 Lexi Darley - 12:22 in 2019 in the 3200 So some of their girls started in elementary school too.
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Pardon my French but, who gives 2 sh1ts about the slow kids? Any Coach Joe Schmoe can produce slow kids but can they produce fast kids? No, they can’t.
I can’t imagine going trying out for this team in grade 9 without any running experience.
So the 4th fastest runner ran a 4:01 mile last year? The 7th man on XC team has a PB of 9:10 over 3200m?
Ok, I ran around the track in 80 seconds. Is that good?
Maybe one day I will be fast enough to watch the varsity kids run.
Then again, maybe the environment in that area is such that you would have been in a club already by grade 9 of you either had the general interest to run or a baseline level of talent.
Maybe it’s very unlikely that someone would wake up in grade 9 and all of a sudden would be interested in running when it was already available in grade school and middle school.
Watson, Stillman, and Kanner seem to be the only boys from NP c/o 2025 who did any running before 9th grade.
Stillman seems to have never raced in anything longer than 400 meters before coming into the school. I think that these short distances is what he focuses on.
Kanner went from a 5:47 in 8th grade to a 5:01 in 9th grade.
Jack Watson went from a 5:04 in 8th grade to a 4:39 in 9th grade.
Those are massive improvements.
Class of 2024:
Doshi went from a 5 flat in 2019 to a 4:27 in 2021. No 2020 track time because of Covid-19. Jonah Sloan went from 4:54 in 2021 to a 4:42 in 2022 but also ran a 10:17 in the 3200. Went from a 16:41 to a 16:01 in XC.
Arnav Shetty went from a 5:08 in 2021 to a 4:35 in 2022.
Nathan Porter went from a 10:45 in the outdoors to a 9:52 in the indoors in less than a year.
Nathaniel Schohn went from a 5:09 to a 4:45 in a year.
I don’t think Porter or Schohn ever competed in running before HS.
Notice a trend? These 2 classes are not at the level of Lex/Leo/Aaron but they are making vast year-to-year improvements
It’s interesting how when Brosnan has classes like the ‘23 or this incoming year’s crop of 8th graders he looks like a genius. With the ‘24 and ‘25 class, he looks like a pretty ordinary coach. Do the ‘24 or ‘25 class kids just not believe or do they just set limits? I thought that was all it took to get kids to run sub 8:50.
This is going to sound like an outrageous idea, but maybe the success has more to do with a freakish gathering of insanely talented kids than the coach and his 4:20 is not fast philosophy. I know, I know, it’s preposterous.
Watson, Stillman, and Kanner seem to be the only boys from NP c/o 2025 who did any running before 9th grade.
Stillman seems to have never raced in anything longer than 400 meters before coming into the school. I think that these short distances is what he focuses on.
Kanner went from a 5:47 in 8th grade to a 5:01 in 9th grade.
Jack Watson went from a 5:04 in 8th grade to a 4:39 in 9th grade.
Those are massive improvements.
Class of 2024:
Doshi went from a 5 flat in 2019 to a 4:27 in 2021. No 2020 track time because of Covid-19. Jonah Sloan went from 4:54 in 2021 to a 4:42 in 2022 but also ran a 10:17 in the 3200. Went from a 16:41 to a 16:01 in XC.
Arnav Shetty went from a 5:08 in 2021 to a 4:35 in 2022.
Nathan Porter went from a 10:45 in the outdoors to a 9:52 in the indoors in less than a year.
Nathaniel Schohn went from a 5:09 to a 4:45 in a year.
I don’t think Porter or Schohn ever competed in running before HS.
Notice a trend? These 2 classes are not at the level of Lex/Leo/Aaron but they are making vast year-to-year improvements
Looks like pretty typical improvement for newer, young runners.