A 54.5 400 guy who ran some youth track went out for his first season of distance as a Senior, and what happened next is insane.
Whittle ended up running 16:13 at Holmdel Park for 22nd in the fastest NJ MOC race ever, also ran around 15:30 at Darlington Park at a league meet. Mind you this is his first XC season.
Then winter track rolls around, he runs a 1:57 800, 4:14 1600 at the Bubble, a notoriously slow track for 4th at MOC, and 9:04 for 2 miles
Now in this outdoor season he's already run 9:03 for 3200 and 4:12 for the Mile with more to come, whatever college lands this rising talent is going to be lucky!