cathy pickler wrote:
Did he flunk a few grades?
Who knows? Heck, he'll be 19 as a senior and still 2 years younger (at the very least) that fraud Haile. Haile doesn't seem to catch as much hell over his age, it's probably due to his protective coloring.
Beef Stewy wrote:
formerly present wrote:"Sir"
"Do you ride the short bus? Because 16 is OLD"
I'm with the other guy, I graduated when I was 17.
Back when I was in HS we all had letsrun boy crushes on this guy who was running ~1:49 for 800m as a Jr. Our coaches put this in perspective for us "Fellas - Marvin is 19. He will not be able to run next year because he will be a 20 year old high school student."
Then you were young. Probably two thirds of the people I graduated with were 18 by the time school ended.
Birff Certificate wrote:
Haile doesn't seem to catch as much hell over his age, it's probably due to his protective coloring.
Spoken like a true shit-head racist. Didn't catch much flak???? There were about a million threads on here giving him "flak" for the controversy surrounding his age. Quite the opposite actually: BECAUSE he was an african, people like you refuse to believe that maybe he is telling the truth.
ummm....
16, 17, 18, 19
He will be 19 as a senior=old.
He's just two years younger than German who is a college freshman.
ciego no más wrote:
cathy pickler wrote:Did he flunk a few grades?
How would your grades do if you were dropped off at your new school in Vilnius and didn't speak a word of Lithuanian?
I would do fine if I was dropped off in Klepida, thats where the great lithuanian beer is made.
19 for the last few months of his senior year is not relly that old. I was 18 the summer before my senior year started as were at least a few dozen of my classmates (class size 370). Also, I can recall at least 10 people who were 19 before their senior year was over.
That is a fin cookin time tho!!! Hope he smokes some tris.
the Rocket wrote:
ummm....
16, 17, 18, 19
He will be 19 as a senior=old.
He's just two years younger than German who is a college freshman.
Fernandez was born in November of 1990. That's about as young as you can be for his graduating high school class. Verzbicas was born in the fall of 1992, which is in line with most of the high school sophomores in the US.
jonesy. wrote: And clearly if this is worth high 8:40s 2M, then he has a shot to re-write the high school and junior (under 20) record book when he runs track junior and senior years, as reported by dyestat.
Imagine setting a national record and knowing that just beating your school records at mile and two mile will be a great accomplishment.
this sent me scurrying to find what high school he went to and what their records were. not too hard to find but as you say some incredible records from Dave Merrick:
5 8:43.2i Dave Merrick Lincoln-Way. New Lenox, IL '71
That's 5th all-time (as of 2003?) from Hoffman's two mile list.
And the mile:
42 42 04:05.4iO Dave Merrick, Lincoln-Way, New Lenox
Indoors, but on an oversized track!
It will be an accomplishment to break these school records!
ciego no más wrote:
the Rocket wrote:ummm....
16, 17, 18, 19
He will be 19 as a senior=old.
He's just two years younger than German who is a college freshman.
Fernandez was born in November of 1990. That's about as young as you can be for his graduating high school class. Verzbicas was born in the fall of 1992, which is in line with most of the high school sophomores in the US.
he was born in january of this year.
I have seen him run for a couple of years and when I saw him training a few years ago at a local track i thought he was in high school. Then i saw him runnning at a Junior High meet and he was quite impressive. I have seen him running very hard 1000 meter repeats with his parents watching him. I talked to him when he was in 8th grade and he seemed like a nice kid.
jonesy. wrote: I think that he would destroy the sophomore class 2 mile record outdoors right now. And clearly if this is worth high 8:40s 2M, then he has a shot to re-write the high school and junior (under 20) record book when he runs track junior and senior years, as reported by dyestat.
It's worth a mid-high 850 actually. High 840's? Not quite....what would Rupps 5k be worth then? 824? Not quite. Ritz/pre's 1344 worth 828? Not a chance.
7-8 seconds per mile slower is the general slow down for someone going that kind off speed.
14:20 matches up to 8:51 on the Hungarian Tables.
"he was born in january of this year."[/quote]
Which is phenomenal for someone two months old !
Cook Book wrote:
Spoken like a true shit-head racist. Didn't catch much flak???? There were about a million threads on here giving him "flak" for the controversy surrounding his age. Quite the opposite actually: BECAUSE he was an african, people like you refuse to believe that maybe he is telling the truth.
You come off as the racist. Or should we say "self hater". It's obvious Haile is lying, the evidence is all there. But since he's African, you feel compelled to back off, right? You feel that if you call him on his lying, you're going to be called "intolerant" or, gasp, a "racist".
Cook Book, you have no balls. Typical emasculated white male from the US.
Does anyone know how he trains?
jonesy. wrote:
this sent me scurrying to find what high school he went to and what their records were. not too hard to find but as you say some incredible records from Dave Merrick:
5 8:43.2i Dave Merrick Lincoln-Way. New Lenox, IL '71
That's 5th all-time (as of 2003?) from Hoffman's two mile list.
And the mile:
42 42 04:05.4iO Dave Merrick, Lincoln-Way, New Lenox
Merrick paved the way for Craig Virgin. In fact, it was Virgin who was finishing 2nd to Merrick in Illinois HS races in 1971 -- the last year that Merrick would ever beat Craig.
Verzbicas has great school records to shoot for.
What a great performance for any highschooler.
just wondering though why ont he letsrun main page, when you click on the title of this story, to pull up full detail, it says this kid is in year 12. meaning he is a senior????????
Class of '12. You think all those '09 kids doing well are freshmen?