South Eugene School Records: WOW!!!

Prophet wrote:

1973 (Williams) and 1974(Shankel).

Williams-went to Oregon

Schankel went to Cal Poly SLO

Lompoc's 1972 Cross Country team is the best XC team in US history.

Lompoc had Terry Williams, Jim Shankel, Alvin Gilmore, and others.

mead '93-94 was also very, very good.

Matt Davis(14:00 3mile XC, 9:03), Micah Davis(8:58, 4:08), Greg James(4:10), Rob Aubrey(9:03), Sky Detray(4:08, 8:58)

they still hold the all-time best team time at California's Woodward Park, where they used to run the Footlocker races.

Jesuit (Sacramento)

800 -- 1:49.29 (12 - 1:55 or faster)

1600 -- 4:04.00 (4 sub-4:05; 7 - 4:10 or faster)

3200 -- 8:44.95 (9 sub- 9:04)

3000 -- 8:07

5000 -- 14:01

DMR -- 9:56

I hear that Jesuit squad was pretty good!!! Ha Ha!

I was a junior when the Mastalirs were seniors. My brother, Jim, was the same class as Mark and Eric.

When we set the Mt. SAC team record, our 5th man ran 17:10.

He later went on to run 9:18 for 3200m the next spring.

Yeah, go Axemen

paulthomas wrote:

Not trying to one up anyone here, but my alma amter (Jesuit Sacto) also has a respctable all time list that you can find here:

http://jesuittrack.org/top25.htm

800m 12 under 1:56

1600m 6 under 4:09 average of top 10 times= 4:09.13

3200m 10 under 9:10 (86 top 3 8:43, 8:46, 9:00)

I would also love to see YORK, MEAD, LOMPOC, WOODLANDS etc...there have been some great programs over the years!

Hey Paul!

With all that quality at S. Eugene, I don't think the mile relay is particularly impressive. Heck, my alma mater ran 3:17, and I coached a school to 3:20.56 whose school records are 49.06, 1:55.05, 4:22.20, and 9:23.17, not remotely in SE's league. Not trying to "hate" SE, but I just find that one surprising.

The big question to this thread is(with the exception of just a very few-McChesneys/Sage/Stember), what did any of those ppl do in college or beyond. Its very sad to me when ppl peak in high school,.

hey at least they had a peak, some people never get the chance to run fast ever. Some people just dont improve for different reasons, but at least they can say they were on top at some point in their lives, 99 % of all runners will never get that feeling. So If i had to choice of having a mediocre college career or an outstanding hs career where I was the best, i would drop college in a heart beat and live it up for a year or two in hs

I've heard so much about this team; my coach was on it.

Didn't Harry Johnson start out as a gymnastics coach?

Does anyone have any information on how these teams trained? How many people they had out? And how these people did in college?

South Eugene won the Oregon state XC Championship in '68, '70, '72, '73, '74, '75, '76, '77, '78' 79, and '81, and placed 2nd in '80, '90, '91, '94, '95, and '04.

Also individual state XC champions: R. Meskimen '61-'62, T. McChesney '72, S. Surface '73, B. McChesney '74, '75, '76, J. Hess '78, M. McGuirk '81, and B. Hudson '84

No one has mentioned Steve Stageberg. Has anyone else from South Eugene finished higher than Stageberg in the NCAA cross country championships? He finished second overall in 1968.

'68 NCAA cross results:

1. Mike Ryan USAF 29:16

2. Steve Stageberg Geo 29:28

3. Art Dulong HCross 29:39

4. Grant Colehour EKU 29:46

5. Gerry Hinton SIU 29:50

6. Jerry Richey Pitt 29:52

7. Art Coolidge KSU 29:53

8. Tom Donnelly Vill 29:55

9. Sid Sink BGSU 29:58

10. Carl Hatfield WVU 29:59

13. Craig Runyan Univ.Colorado 30:00

19. Frank Shorter Yale 30:07

John Lunn Univ.Colorado 30:07

22. Dick Buerkle Vill 30:09

30. Howell Michael W&M 30:15

34. Steve Hoag Minn 30:21

36. Chris Mason Vill 30:21

Rick Trujillo Univ.Colorado

39. Don Kardong Stan 30:28

Team- 1. Vill 2. Stan 3. SCal

And has anyone else from South Eugene finished higher than Stageberg in the national championships at 5,000 meters (three miles back then)? Stageberg finished second in 1971.

1971

F: 3 miles; 26 JUNE 1971

1. Steve Prefontaine 12:58.6 MRy

2. Steve Stageberg 13:00.4

3. Frank Shorter 13:02.4

4. Gerry Lindgren 13:04.4

5. Leonard Hilton 13:04.4

6. Mario Perez (MEX) 13:07.4

Current Axemen Runner wrote:

Also individual state XC champions: R. Meskimen '61-'62, T. McChesney '72, S. Surface '73, B. McChesney '74, '75, '76, J. Hess '78, M. McGuirk '81, and B. Hudson '84

Scott, is that you???

Oh, and it's "Sageberg" by the way, no "t." I'm a stickler when it comes to that sort of thing.

You're dead wrong. It's "Stageberg," not "Sageberg." Just Google them.

My bad.

Big T wrote:

My bad.

Stick with one handle "Big T"