ASHELY BRASSOVAN
ASHELY BRASSOVAN
Blah Blah what's the point. Most high school stars never going on to be remembered for what the did in college or beyond.
These are the guys that broke 8:50 for two miles during the 1980's.
Eric Reynolds 8:44.0
John Trautmann 8:44.53 (8:05 3k)
Eric Mastalir 8:46.47 (8:07 3k)
Scott Fry 8:47.02 (8:08 3k)
Mark Dani 8:49.11
Ricky Pittman 8:49.4
Mark Mastalir 8:49.66 (8:10 3k)
Jon Butler 8:49.86.
All where dominant in high school and anything less than NCAA Championships, Olympic Teams, and American Records meant according to the people who start these threads, they did nothing. Trautmann is the only one then that did anything that entire decade.
Wayne Coyne wrote:
Blah Blah what's the point. Most high school stars never going on to be remembered for what the did in college or beyond.
These are the guys that broke 8:50 for two miles during the 1980's.
Eric Reynolds 8:44.0
John Trautmann 8:44.53 (8:05 3k)
Eric Mastalir 8:46.47 (8:07 3k)
Scott Fry 8:47.02 (8:08 3k)
Mark Dani 8:49.11
Ricky Pittman 8:49.4
Mark Mastalir 8:49.66 (8:10 3k)
Jon Butler 8:49.86.
All where dominant in high school and anything less than NCAA Championships, Olympic Teams, and American Records meant according to the people who start these threads, they did nothing. Trautmann is the only one then that did anything that entire decade.
Not true. Ricky Pittman was a world-class steepler, he scored in many NCAA meets and won three SEC titles. I think he ran 8:23, which was very good at the time. Its very good right now, 30 years later.
Scott Fry competed for the University of Wisconsin where he was a five time NCAA All-American and a five time Big Ten champion (setting three Big Ten meet championship records). He was also a member of two NCAA championship XC teams and placed 5th individually at the 1987 NCAA cross
country championships.
Fry placed 8th in the 5000 meters at the 1988 U.S. Olympic Trials and 12th in the 10,000 meters in the 1992 Olympic Trials.
Butler ran 13:53/28:47 and then married a doctor and moved away. Times like those were top-notch in the 80's for college, but you have to remember that we had a lot of overage Africans back then in that time frame. I don't think Jim Hill ever won an NCAA titles and he was just about as fast as Butler in high school and way faster in college.
Take away the 3000 and 3200 conversions and the actual number of sub 8:50 2-miles from the '80s is short.
Wayne Coyne wrote:
Blah Blah what's the point. Most high school stars never going on to be remembered for what the did in college or beyond.
These are the guys that broke 8:50 for two miles during the 1980's.
Eric Reynolds 8:44.0
John Trautmann 8:44.53 (8:05 3k)
Eric Mastalir 8:46.47 (8:07 3k)
Scott Fry 8:47.02 (8:08 3k)
Mark Dani 8:49.11
Ricky Pittman 8:49.4
Mark Mastalir 8:49.66 (8:10 3k)
Jon Butler 8:49.86.
All where dominant in high school and anything less than NCAA Championships, Olympic Teams, and American Records meant according to the people who start these threads, they did nothing. Trautmann is the only one then that did anything that entire decade.
And remember, Scott Fry is Flagpole's beeyatch.
coach d. wrote:
Take away the 3000 and 3200 conversions and the actual number of sub 8:50 2-miles from the '80s is short.
Wayne Coyne wrote:Blah Blah what's the point. Most high school stars never going on to be remembered for what the did in college or beyond.
These are the guys that broke 8:50 for two miles during the 1980's.
Eric Reynolds 8:44.0
John Trautmann 8:44.53 (8:05 3k)
Eric Mastalir 8:46.47 (8:07 3k)
Scott Fry 8:47.02 (8:08 3k)
Mark Dani 8:49.11
Ricky Pittman 8:49.4
Mark Mastalir 8:49.66 (8:10 3k)
Jon Butler 8:49.86.
All where dominant in high school and anything less than NCAA Championships, Olympic Teams, and American Records meant according to the people who start these threads, they did nothing. Trautmann is the only one then that did anything that entire decade.
Very short. And shorter in the 90's. Picked up dramatically in the 2000-2010 era but mainly were done in all-star post season meets, with the exception of Ritz and Sage at their state meets.
How about a guy names John Gill. Grosso used to tell me about that guy. He sounded like he was a terror.
Chris Stogsdill
He won NON his senior year and now he's at Iona doing nothing
These are the guys that broke 8:50 for two miles during the 1980's.
Eric Reynolds 8:44.0
John Trautmann 8:44.53 (8:05 3k)
Eric Mastalir 8:46.47 (8:07 3k)
Scott Fry 8:47.02 (8:08 3k)
Mark Dani 8:49.11
Ricky Pittman 8:49.4
Mark Mastalir 8:49.66 (8:10 3k)
Jon Butler 8:49.86.
Butler ran 13:53/28:47 and then married a doctor and moved away. Times like those were top-notch in the 80's for college, but you have to remember that we had a lot of overage Africans back then in that time frame. I don't think Jim Hill ever won an NCAA titles and he was just about as fast as Butler in high school and way faster in college.[/quote]
Jim Hill finished third in the 1984 or 85 NCAA 5,000 behind two Washington State Kenyans. He also won a Pac-10 Cross Country Championship & I believe a top ten finish NCAA XC Meet. 13:18-13:19 5,000 PR.
aloha warrior wrote:
Jim Hill finished third in the 1984 or 85 NCAA 5,000 behind two Washington State Kenyans. He also won a Pac-10 Cross Country Championship & I believe a top ten finish NCAA XC Meet. 13:18-13:19 5,000 PR.
Hill ran 8:47.7 two mile, Virginia 1979.
Abdirizak Mohamud easily. Two time footlocker champ, hardly ran, didn't like to run but did it fast.
Any big time coach should know that 1600m is often called the metric mile in the US, and the phrase "full mile" distinguishes the two:
gerry lindgren anyone?
gerry? wrote:
gerry lindgren anyone?
Well, let's see: 11 NCAA championships (at a time when freshmen weren't eligible); college records at 3 miles, 6 miles (also a world record), 3,000m, 5,000m, and 10,000m.
Yep, never did a thing in college.
Moron.
Chris Solinsky, Galen Rupp, and if I remember right, Kenenisa Bekele were great in high school but coudn't do anything afterwards.
Tell me if i'm wrong though.
Wayne Coyne wrote:
Blah Blah what's the point. Most high school stars never going on to be remembered for what the did in college or beyond.
These are the guys that broke 8:50 for two miles during the 1980's.
Eric Reynolds 8:44.0
John Trautmann 8:44.53 (8:05 3k)
Eric Mastalir 8:46.47 (8:07 3k)
Scott Fry 8:47.02 (8:08 3k)
Mark Dani 8:49.11
Ricky Pittman 8:49.4
Mark Mastalir 8:49.66 (8:10 3k)
Jon Butler 8:49.86.
All where dominant in high school and anything less than NCAA Championships, Olympic Teams, and American Records meant according to the people who start these threads, they did nothing. Trautmann is the only one then that did anything that entire decade.
I know what happened to Reynolds, but whatever became of Dani? He did run like 13:52 at UCLA but didn't do much else.
Brendan Heffernan. Won Kinneys in 92, but don't think he ever finished top 50 at NCAAs.
Dan Coval
Kennedy
Rupp
Solinsky
Teg
Webb