Cade Flatt going for Michael Granville's 1:46.45 HS record on Fri.: "I’m not planning on just scraping by on tha

I predict he goes 1:46 Flatt.

Illegitimare record as they are 19 years old.

As long as he's actually in high school I think it would be a legit record regardless of his age. (I mean as long as someone isn't crazy old like 20 or 21) If he's happened to have graduated recently, then we start getting into the fuzzy area.

Here we go with the age thing again. The range of age for HS seniors is anywhere from 17 to 19. Granted, 19 is on the older side but if someone is in HS and sets a record while they're 19 years old, would that still not be a HS record?

What would make Flatt's record illegitimate isn't his age, it would be that it was set in a field that included professional and non-HS runners. I may be wrong but I was under the understanding that marks in fields that consistent of professional runners could not be considered for record purposes. It is akin to why Yared Nuguse's 1500 time this year that he ran in a field with professional runners can't be considered as a qualifying mark for the NCAA regional meet.

Word? Whatever, so long as we agree They are illegitimate i don’t really care the reason 👍

He's said he's 18 and his IAAF is incorrect.

Age aside, if he were to break the record would it be recognized since the field has pro runners? Does anyone know?

Is Flatt non-binary?

It would count.

This would seem to indicate that it would not count:

1. For a performance to be considered a national record, it must be accomplished by an individual(s) representing his or her varsity high school team in competition against other competitors representing their respective varsity high school teams.

Illegitimate in the court of public opinion 😘

That would mean half the highschool records wouldn't count. Such as Alan Webbs 3:53 and Lukas 8:29. That is why there are highschool only competition records no one cares about.

I would have a hard time giving equal rank to a HS record set by a 19 year old. For decades, the norm for hs competition was to age people out once they turned 19. About 10-15 years ago, a lot of states relaxed these age restrictions.

When Matthew Maton first broke 4 he was 19, had been kicked of his HS track team, and broke 4 in a race where everybody else was a collegiate or pro. It still went down as a sub 4 high school mile because he was enrolled in high school at the time.

I don't have anything against Maton, Flatt or other 19 year olds competing in HS but their accomplishments get an asterisk in terms of their all time high school ranking.

You are mistaken. Nuguse's performance wasn't counted for NCAA qualifying purposes because the meet didn't have enough events. It had nothing to do with having pro runners in his field.

Once you graduate, you are no longer in HS.

Very good runner. I hope he gets the record. A race with Sumner at some point would be good to see too.

he rojo, could you get erik to make it so that when we click on links it'll open a new tab instead of taking us away from this site?

In Minnesota, our state meet is the second week of June, most seniors have graduated by the time they run the state meet.

Is this true or isn’t it? 19 is pretty damn old for a high schooler going for a high school record.