Christie Rutledge of Fayetteville-Manlius

Christie Rutledge: 10/04/2008 27:12 last on JVs 3:11 behind next to the last FM girl

9/12/2009 24:25 6th on JVs

10/21/2009 20:21 2nd on JVs

9/11/2010 17:20 1st varsity

Christine Rutledge

10/04/2008 27:12 last on JVs 3:11 behind next to the last FM girl

9/12/2009 24:01 6th on JVs

10/21/2009 20:21 2nd on JVs

9/11/2010 17:20 1st on Varsity

Christine Rutledge

10/04/2008 27:12 last on JVs 3:11 behind next to the last FM girl

9/12/2009 24:01 6th on JVs

10/21/2009 20:21 2nd on JVs

9/11/2010 17:20 1st on Varsity

Looks like she ran for Dartmouth too

She may not be running anymore but going from the slowest on the team to second at NXN shows everyone that anything is possible in high school if they want it bad enough

I’m not sure something like this can just happen. I think this was an odd freak occurrence.

Rutledge featured in this 2022 piece about high level hs girls. It’s not good.

runnersworld.com

Female High School Runners Say Unhealthy Training Pressure Is Pushing Them Beyond the Breaking Point

As more programs encourage young athletes to train like professionals, female runners report problems with restrictive eating, irregular menstrual cycles, and long-term bone damage.

Link:www.runnersworld.com/women/a41845898/h...

In high school almost anything is possible. I had a girl go from about 23-20 from one race to the next.

She was one of our "slower" runners. She was listening to the faster girls talk about how they stepped it up in a race, it was something beyond their every day running pace.

The next race she was running under 21 and steadily improved to the point where she contributed to a team that took 5th in the state championships.

Super annoyed that article is behind a paywall. Would love to read it.

This is an insane comment "anything is possible" ... like if you stop eating and run a ton???She admits to being fully into having an eating disorder and running way too much to the point that she permanently damaged her body. As a coach in HS your job is to back kids off when you notice these things so there isn't permanent damage - it was clear when she was running that season that she had lost a lot of weight and was unhealthy and all you heard in this area was how fast she got and how strong she looked. It's simply sad, that winning was pushed more than health.