Thomas Lerdall - never made the top 7 for Wayzata High School, but was the #1 runner for St. Olaf at MIAC Championships in 2017 and he placed second overall
Jake Campbell. Was midpack JV for Edina until senior year when he scored constantly. Fifth at the NCAA Division III (DIII) Cross Country Championships 2015
Probably Parker Valby
Never made nationals in hs
second at ncaa
Must be some people who never ran in HS and did well in college.
Maybe some soccer of b-ball players
There are college Football players that didn't have football programs in HS. I didn't have a track or XC program in MY HS, and ran in college, did ok also.
Best example is probably Abdi Nur: 4:26/9:27/15:30 in HS to 3:36/3:55/7:40/13:06/27:42 with multiple NCAA medals and CR 5k
carmine9 wrote:
Must be some people who never ran in HS and did well in college.
Maybe some soccer of b-ball players
Edwin Kurgat. Won nats when Joe Klecker got second
He never ran in hs. Played field hockey instead
Clayton Murphy. 1:54 in HS to NCAA champ and Olympic medalist.
Cam Levins. 1:58 and 4:00 in high school. (That's 4:00 in 1500m.)
Courtney Frerichs
Emma Coburn and Karissa Schweizer
C F wasn't top XC for Lobos was she? C F is/was an athlete who continued to improve. Didn't C F attend U. of MO-KC for a year or two? C F improved while in HS, improved as a collegiate athlete and improved as a pro runner.
I was primarily a basketball player in high school and ran little. My PRs: 2:00 on opening 4 x 800 leg (ran once), 4:32 1600, and 10:00 3200 (ran once). Got really fast my freshman year at a D1 school and walked on a week before conference. Did 2 workouts with team and ran at conference. Did really well after that.
Sebastian Fernandez was a 2:0x guy in highschool and ran 1:47 as a walk-on freshman at BYU this past year.
Kassie Parker has multiple national championships and a 15:58 5000. Her HS PR was 20:30.
Would Nick Symmonds be an example?
Isaia Rodriguez, slow high school times and 3x top ten at NCAA xc
Steve Scott 4:21 Miler wanted to go to UCLA, Then UCLA Coach Jim Bush told him he was not good enough and would not let him even Workout with the team, Steve Scott Went to UC Irvine and you know the rest
Mikeh33 wrote:
Would Nick Symmonds be an example?
Totally! Wasn’t he like a 1:57 4:25 guy or something along those lines?
He mentioned that he couldn’t even get on a reasonable D1 roster out of highschool.
You know it
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