Irene Riggs 16:02 5k @ WakeMed!!! Broke a Tuohy record by 20 seconds!

Back to the topic of this thread which is Irene Riggs.

Are there any girls with a realistic shot at beating Riggs at NXN?

No, Riggs may win by 30 seconds. I think Sachs from MI will be second.

"She would've gotten into Stanford no problem"---LOL, you know zero about education. With your logic, all 4.0 and Valedictorians should be accepted at Stanford. I highly doubt she's that smart. 4.0 doesn't tell the whole story, not even a long shot.

The principal announced a guy as the valedictorian.

Riggs is breaking Tuohy's records and she is going to Stanford.

I'm sure she will win the NCAAs next year. The haters are so pressed.

Giver her some credit for smashing Tuohy's record and running the 2nd fastest time in history. Seem that you hate every good runner save one.

Tuohy ran 16:22 with a 161 SR. It is a fast course. Now imagine Tuohy running it her junior year when she was running 178. You want to hype yet another runner, fine. But people are talking about school choices and other nonsense. Which is sad but amusing.

School choice is nonsense? You commented multiple times about tangents or the exact number of miles that people train or cross training benefits. School choice is 1000 times more important than those things.

You claim to be the resident pharmacist.

on the topic of speed ratings, a 16:56 on this course in 2004 was a 168. Decades later, a 16:22 is a 161 and a 16:02 is a 171

Thanks for the data. It seems that the speed ratings are putting way too much weight on new shoes. People who use speed ratings as their bench marks will always think Tuohy is better than people who run faster times on the same courses.

KT would not have been accepted to Stanford as a general applicant, but she would have made it as a scholarship athlete. In the general pool, you need 1550 SATs and a 4.0+, depending on how your school handles AP courses, and a unique "story". As an athlete, requirements drop as far as 1200 Sat, 3.0 gpa. For football they have gone even lower.

You can verify this by looking at Stanford's 'common data set'. All the low range admits are athletes.

If the course was very sloppy this year as reported, that slows the pack down (but not necessarily the lead runner as much who can pick her path ahead of the pack) and increases the speed rating for a given time. The fact that she also ran 16:02 in what were less than ideal conditions is also impressive.

I read though it. It does not link any of the data to athletes.

Never say that someone would have been accepted to a school because they may have already committed their scholarships or may not have enough people graduating that year to free enough up. The facts are that Tuohy didn't get accepted to Stanford regardless if she tried or not. This board is full of kids and parents who complain that they are faster than the runners on a particular team but they receive no interest from the coach.

It doesn't link or say athletes, or give names lol, but every admit in the lowest 2 bands is an athlete. They don't even have to go that low for low income, minority or legacy applicants.