Most athletic distance runner?

mid-distance but Nick Simmons?

Grant Fisher:

Details not widely known.

Soccer player prior to and during HS running. Played for Regional Olympic Development teams (when ODP program was strong) representing the USA and age group US National Team Pool.

Second degree black belt in karate.

Kobbs Hessler is 5.14 climber.

"Most distance runners find running after being cut from the church baseball team and have nowhere else to go."

I don't believe that premise. Prove it.

Jake Merrell from Valley in the panhandle of Texas all state athlete in four sports.

Joe Falcon was the only runner that I have heard could bench press more than me at weighing under 130 lbs. When I weighed 128 Max was 265lbs.

Whittniborton was a multi sport athlete in highschool. Has a world record for fastest mile while dribbling a basketball

runnersworld.com

Watch This Runner Clock a Sub-5:00 Mile While Dribbling a Basketball

BYU’s Whittni Orton breaks the world record in the basketball mile.

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That's very cool and talented.

Jake Merrell QB from the football team has a model contract. All in one week after running a 1:54 he had a dunk in a basketball game and a 85 mph fastball.

For real. Name one church that has a baseball team.

Bert Blyleven. B Blyleven ran XC. I believe Ron Guidry was a runner too.

In regard to that stuff about Stember, is there a source other than just him? XC and basketball don’t overlap so he would not have been forced to choose.

If you count The Louisiana Lightning ⚡ running to the refrigerator for a beer 🍺

Nope. Pretty sure Vista Murrieta had a sprints coach.

Distance runner? Athletic? No such thing 😉

There was quite a bit of hyperbole in my opening statement but that little anecdote was taken almost exactly from Jim Ryun’s humble beginnings in the sport. As I remember, Jim couldn’t get no satisfaction anywhere else but Bob Timmons had him run 440 yard reps until he was the greatest high school athlete of all time. So there’s my proof.

They did - iirc it was actually Makio Haywood. Shoutout to anyone who knows who he is. However, I have to imagine that with an athlete the caliber of Michael Norman, coaching was probably a shared role between the head coach and the sprints coach, so I have no problem with anyone saying Coley Candaele coached Michael Norman.