I know people said she was playing field hockey but she keeps popping up at summer road races. Is she going to be on the Saratoga team in the fall or just the most well conditioned field hockey player ever?
For those who care but have no clue who she is...Saratoga frosh showed up out of nowhere and ran a 2:12 800 by season's end.
4 miles
3 Michelle Riley 15 Saratoga Springs NY 26:36
not super fast but not bad for a half miler moving up and one who spent most of last week hanging out on the beach rather than training....don't be too surprised if she's a footlocker finalist come November
So is she running xc for Saratoga or just going to show up at footlocker after the field hockey season is over and qualify. Didn't Katy or Amanda Trotter do that one year?
One of the twins won the JR class race at Footlocker after playing soccer all fall. They both ran XC their senior year and then Katy qualified for Footlocker Nats and finished 2nd :)
so does this mean she is doing xc :( we were hoping she wasn't we wanted to beat saratoga finally
Still doing field hockey I believe, but may make a run at footlocker anyway.
still, even if she's not, those are some pretty good 4 mile times for saratoga's top 5
26:36 = 6:39 mile pace. That's over 20:30 for the 5K en route. I don't know what the conversion is, but it can't be worth more than a 20-minute 5K? Are you telling me one of the top programs in the country can't get their 5th girl under 20 minutes for a 5K?
I think people are interested because she's run a 2:12 open 800 so obviously she has some speed or strength. I don't think she ever ran over 800 in track so jumping in in early July going 6:30 pace for 4miles is encouraging and who knows what effort the run was at? I'd guess if she does xc she's an 18:00-18:15 girl by the time the state meet rolls around (and probably with what Toga returns that puts her somewhere in 3-5 land so she will help the team). Could she go under 18 and qualify for footlocker? Its possible.
she wimped out of running Boilermaker haha
did saratoga go to boilermaker?
where are the results?
Hey, if I'm an 800 guy/gal in HS I probably wouldn't want to run no 15Ks either. Heck I was a miler in college and I didn't even want to run 8K XC races. (forced to cuz the rest of my team sucked, as in the #2 guy ran 27:45)
If she worked on it she could probably turn into a decent miler, but why force someone who could very well be a 400/800 type to run XC and risk burnout?
Lots of HS girls run 2:12...hardly footlocker potential. Maybe Junior Olympics?
She ran faster than Blood or Ferguson did as frosh
It's true there is a lot of untapped potential there maybe XC won't be her thing but the counter to your argument is lots of girls make footlocker and can't get anywhere near her 800 times ever.
2007/TOGA07.htm
Looks like toga is gearing up for another strong XC season. Davidson really looks to be in top form. She won by over a minute 10 secs.
Isn't Riley only a frosh? Let's hope she's "untapped" b/c she's got at least 3 years to go at the high school level.
busting out a 2:12 when you didn't run xc or even indoor is pretty impressive...we have guys who can't do that and have been running since xc
I can't run a 2:12 800m (never gone under 2:20), and I run a 1:14 half marathon.
She's a huge talent...cool kid too
so is she running in the fall?