Ted Ginn
Ted Ginn
400 meter runner william reed.
polly plummer a sensation in high school a flop in college, interestingly her sister patti sue plummer, was not known in high school and became a good runner in college and as a professional.
vickie cook
jon butler
pete richardson
kenny robinson
sharon ware
So Vasquez went from Arkansas to Embry Riddle.. interesting
douglas burke wrote:
400 meter runner william reed.
polly plummer a sensation in high school a flop in college, interestingly her sister patti sue plummer, was not known in high school and became a good runner in college and as a professional.
vickie cook
jon butler
pete richardson
kenny robinson
sharon ware
Are you guys even trying?
Plumer - All American
Butler PRd in college.
Richardson PRd at AZ St
I think the times of Rhodes-Devey are wrong but it is nice that someone is taking the time to bash him. I believe he ran 3:44 for 1500m last year. Don't let the facts get in the way of your agenda though.
Nigel Tap wrote:
douglas burke wrote:400 meter runner william reed.
polly plummer a sensation in high school a flop in college, interestingly her sister patti sue plummer, was not known in high school and became a good runner in college and as a professional.
vickie cook
jon butler
pete richardson
kenny robinson
sharon ware
Are you guys even trying?
Plumer - All American
Butler PRd in college.
Richardson PRd at AZ St
but plummer did not run as fasst as she did in high school.
butler ran his 28:47 and 13:53 his freshman year and got slower every year until he was a senior.
richardson barely bettered his high school time, but did not meet what was expected of him.
Obea Moore hands down. He ran 45.14 and 44.8 relay as a junior but he didn't care about school and lost interest.
frankylns sanchez wrote:
I think the times of Rhodes-Devey are wrong but it is nice that someone is taking the time to bash him. I believe he ran 3:44 for 1500m last year. Don't let the facts get in the way of your agenda though.
I think Murdock and BRD both liked partying a bit too much in college, thats what I heard at least. Murdock had a great senior XC season where he won NXN (team nationals) and finished third at footlocker. It helped that he was three years older than every other kid in the races though. BRD dropped a 2:59 1200 senior year leading off a DMR which was really quite fun to watch. Texas did him wrong I think, or maybe he did himself wrong. I still root for those guys because I was familiar with them in HS, but its a shame to see talent like that go to waste.
NJguy wrote:
Fred Sharpe. Triples in the 400IH, 800m, and 1500 (I think he was something like 2nd or 3rd in the 1500m, but won the other two.) I saw his name in college once or twice, but not much after.
Was the "once or twice" the times you saw that he was 3rd in the NCAA Outdoor 400 IH ? As in 2002 and 2003?
The guy has PRs of 48.86 (400 IH), 1:48.08 (800), has 5 All American certificates, ran in the World University Games, and twice made the finals of the 400 IH at USATF...
...and yet he did nothing after college?
Brian Rhodes Devey and Steve Murdock are both top 5 on their respective teams who made NCAA XC this past fall (Texas and Syracuse)
BRD has fulfilled potential to an extent in the 1500 clocking 3:44 last spring with 2 seasons left i think having redshirted...so to see him go sub 4 equivalent would be less than suprising
Murdock has run 14:15 in the 5k so far at Syracuse
just because they arent running earth shattering times like in HS does not mean they are wastes of life at the college level and beyond...obviously not every good HS runner is going to continue that unbelievable improvement curve that is the nature of the sport, it gets harder and harder to stand out at every level because the competition gets better
douglas burke wrote:
but plummer did not run as fasst as she did in high school.
butler ran his 28:47 and 13:53 his freshman year and got slower every year until he was a senior.
richardson barely bettered his high school time, but did not meet what was expected of him.
So you basically decided to hijack the thread by changing topic. You should have said something... or started your own thread. Most of the runners mentioned on here did something after high school. Making it to the Olympic Trials, running a 28 and change 10k and a 1:47 800 is far from NOTHING. The need for people to take away from others' accomplishments continues to astound me.
Few will know a bloke named Jason Maschmeyer. Graduated in '93 from Churchill hs Eugene, Oregon. I know little about the guy but I'm pretty sure he didn't go to college and quit running after hs.
Qualified for Kinney nationals as a Sophmore - 23rd.
Pr of 8:24.63 in the 3k and completely owned Dan Brown all through hs.
Pr of 3:54.65 in the 1.5k and had a kick that no one could touch.
This guy was fun to watch and had a load of untouched potential. After watching him during the 1993 season I'm positive he could have run faster if he had been pushed, but he never was.
Jim Ryun. Dude only took like four seconds off his mile PR! He was pretty good as a freshman and sophomore, but sort of trailed off after that.
Sanchez broke Pre's NCAA frosh 5k record. 13:39 as a freshman is legit. Too bad he was injured for all of college thereafter.
Rich Kimball and Mitch Kingery (1970's SF Bay area)
Brian Sullivan and Steve Magness have to be the top 2 from Texas never to do a damn thing. Although, Magness is a scientific coach or something now, so maybe it was a personal choice to quit. Sully just sucked
skiey detray and about 90% of MEAD HS
for the old timers: Blair Mancini
Hannah Davidson, Caitlin Lane, Nicole Blood, Lindsay Ferguson from Saratoga
Laurel Burdick from FM
AJR, not frosh.NCAA DIVISION I MEN'S 10KM CHAMPIONSHIPSIowa State University, AmesNov. 20, 2000TEAM PLACE SCORE FINISHER TIME TEAM1 1 Keith Kelly 30:14.5 Providence 2 Stephen Ondieki 30:16.3 Fairleigh Dickenson3 2 Jorge Torres 30:21.4 Colorado4 3 David Kimani 30:21.6 Alabama5 4 Franklyn Sanchez 30:26.9 Georgetown
Nazar wrote:
Sanchez broke Pre's NCAA frosh 5k record. 13:39 as a freshman is legit. Too bad he was injured for all of college thereafter.