high school high jump from the 70's

haha. I'll just go ahead and save you the trouble. they are lying.

If you will tell me the year and the claim can find 1970 to 80 HS lists some 40 deep all top 10 I'm pretty sure but not linkable.

Thanks metro gnome.

Claim was that he was ranked top-10 nationally as a high school student (jumped 6'6"; most likely sometime '70-'72). He went to high school in Boston.

cass gilbert wrote:Claim was that he was ranked top-10 nationally as a high school student (jumped 6'6"; most likely sometime '70-'72). He went to high school in Boston.

Well, if he's lying, at least he knows enough to claim a credible mark for a top-ten high school ranking around that era.

6'6" would not be Top Ten, unless it was a female.

Does your local library have T&F News bound or on microfilm?

I knew plenty of kids jumping 6'6"-6'9" in the 70's and they would make it to regionals, but barely make a dent in state meets, add to that another 49 states and it's doubtful.

Here's some Ohio records...

http://www.ohsaa.org/Sports/records/tfrecrd.htm

Maybe Mass. has their results on-line.

If they were a basketball player and over six feet tall than yes, their height claim could be legit., but there were plenty jumping 6'6". Good, but not nationally ranked.

6-6 would not rate in the top 10 nationally in those years.

At least 40 guys jumped 6'8 outdoors'70'71'72. No indoor lists sorry 1970 72 off zeroxed lists with poor printing but I'm 98% sure no jumper from Mass made the 40 those years

cass gilbert wrote:

Thanks metro gnome.

Claim was that he was ranked top-10 nationally as a high school student (jumped 6'6"; most likely sometime '70-'72). He went to high school in Boston.

6-8 gets you in the top fifty during the years 70, 71 and 72.

great - thanks all. i'll have to get the specifics from him to be sure.

Said he jumped in the nationals (called Eastern's) in '75 in Princeton and only cleared the opening height of 6'6".

Said Revus (sp?) and Walker were involved in the jump-off for the win (winning height of 7'3").

Eastern States Championship was one of the few big invites back in 1975 getting an invite was big thing the end of season goal for many east coast guys Rudy Reavis from New Rochelle NY topped the National list with 7'1'Tim Walker of Rhode Island had a 7 footer. 6'6 would have gotten an invite.

Can not find '75 Eastern states results- but he would have been in the top dozen/16 jumpers on the east coast.

So not a liar at all he was a very good HS jumper and absent of a meaningful National championship Eastern States Champs was THE meet on the right coast.

I'll dig to see if I can find Eastern States results.

Tom

DYE Cali has State Champs history section and a link to T&F News ranking for that year at the bottom of the meet results.

Buy the guy a beer!

Wineyurtle forgot to give us the link he found to pre 1984 HS T&FNews, I'm nicer. http://www.dyestatcal.com/ATHLETICS/TRACK/STATE_BK/statehis.htm#1948

thanks again. he sounded legit - just wanted to check out his story.

now where can i get cia employment lists? he says he worked for the cia too :)

BTW: Tim Walker won over Rudy Reavis in the Eastern States Champs at 7'-1.5" in 1975 Tim still holds the RI high school indoor HJ record for this feat. I would know, he is married to my sister who was also a high jumper in Rhode Island.

Tim went to jump for the University of Southern California USC. His daughter Alexis Walker is currently a high jumper at UCLA, was #4 nationally in high school HJ in 2010 and has jumped 5'-11" to date. She is now working with Sharon Day at UCLA in 2012-13. Look for big things from her this upcoming year.

BTW: Tim Walker won over Rudy Reavis in the Eastern States Champs at 7'-1.5" in 1975 Tim still holds the RI high school indoor HJ record for this feat. I would know, he is married to my sister who was also a high jumper in Rhode Island.

Tim went to jump for the University of Southern California USC. His daughter Alexis Walker is currently a high jumper at UCLA, was #4 nationally in high school HJ in 2010 and has jumped 5'-11" to date. She is now working with Sharon Day at UCLA in 2012-13. Look for big things from her this upcoming year.

BTW: Tim Walker won over Rudy Reavis in the Eastern States Champs at 7'-1.5" in 1975 Tim still holds the RI high school indoor HJ record for this feat. I would know, he is married to my sister who was also a high jumper in Rhode Island.Tim went to jump for the University of Southern California USC.

His daughter Alexis Walker is currently a high jumper at UCLA, was #4 nationally in high school HJ in 2010 and has jumped 5'-11" to date. She placed 2nd in the 2012 PAC 12 T&F Championships in the HJ. She is now working with Sharon Day at UCLA for the upcoming 2012-13 year. Look for big things from her this upcoming year.

doing well in a meet is nowhere near being among the top nationally especially with a medicore high jump of 6ft 6.

I went to High school during the early/mid 70's.

Our top High Jumper was not in the STATE final for CA but he had a best of somewhere around 6 8.

He was a center on the basketball team and we had a couple of guys from the team jump and they made 6 4 with a little practice. Pretty much every year we had guys jumping between 6 4 and 6 6 and none were City Champions,few went to State and none were ranked in the top 50 nationally.

a 6ft 6 high jump in the 70's when the best guys were over 7 was not a nationally ranked mark

1975 the top 12 nationally were all over 7

1973 top 10 over 6 11, 60+ jumpers over 6 8

1971 60+ jumpers over 6 8

rankings change throughout a season. indoors, early and late outdoors

are all different.

gifted jumpers can do 6'6" with relatively little training, but in the early

and mid 70s, 6'6" was a still a pretty damn big jump. anything over 7 was future olympian territory.