Annabella Tomasic and Avery Hartley, both Florida sixth-graders, clocked times under 10 minutes to go 1-2 in the middle school girls 3k at the FLYRA Middle School State Championships. Tomasic's winning time of 9:56.75 even broke the previous meet record of 9:57. Hartley would take a stellar second place in 9:58.32.
Careful, youll attract the "fast young girls dont impress me" trolls who look for these kinds of threads to bash these kid's efforts by insisting they all "burn out" or get slower after puberty. they dont seem to care that they are already doing really impressive things. instead we get the "time will tell blah blah blah Grace Ping blah blah blah" lecture as if no one has ever heard it before.
Dont know much about these two but kids like Evie Malec and Kaitlyn Estep have been doing absolutely crazy things this past year as middle schoolers. And wait until the Latta double twins crash the party. Two sets of twins in sixth and seventh grade out of Colorado by way of Texas all running absurd times for their age. Worth keeping an eye on at least. Because... you know... time will tell...
at some point we actually have to admit the shoes these kids (and adults) are wearing make a decent differnce in the times they run. I looks like one of the girls is racing in a spring marathon shoe??? if the shoe doesnt make a differnce why is the 6th grader paying that much to race in a shoe like that
I. Rex wrote:
...kids like Evie Malec and Kaitlyn Estep have been doing absolutely crazy things this past year as middle schoolers.
I watched Evie Malec run a 4:53 1600 at the 7AAA True Team section meet on 05/10. She finished in 2nd place about 1/2 second behind Wayzata senior Teegan Anderson. Only afterwards did I realize that Malec is just an 8th grader.
Heartland Fan wrote:
I watched Evie Malec run a 4:53 1600 at the 7AAA True Team section meet on 05/10. She finished in 2nd place about 1/2 second behind Wayzata senior Teegan Anderson. Only afterwards did I realize that Malec is just an 8th grader.
Indeed and took her at the tape a week later to win the MSHSCA State Championship 1600. Promising future for that one.