See title; Micah Gilpatric of Charleston Southern improving from times of 4:37 in the mile and 9:36 3200m during highschool to indoor times of 4:02 in the mile and 7:52 in the 3k this past season. As well as sub 14 and sub 29 performances in the 5k and 10k this past outdoor...
CSU has brought about massive improvements to relatively 'decent' highschool athletes, but this is the wildest instance.
What is in the water down there? Not making any accusations; just genuinely curious how insane progressions like this come about. Anyone know of anything comparable to this?