IL HS girl 9:56 3200m at State

Are you serious???! This is absolutely insane!! It was a HUGE deal when Hasay and Chetelat both dipped under 10 minutes a few years ago and now we have runners like Aisling Cuffe, and now a huge dark horse Kayla Beattie doing the some. WOW...

WHATTTT wrote:

Are you serious???! This is absolutely insane!! It was a HUGE deal when Hasay and Chetelat both dipped under 10 minutes a few years ago and now we have runners like Aisling Cuffe, and now a huge dark horse Kayla Beattie doing the some. WOW...

I'm not sure if I'd call Ms. Beattie a dark horse. She's been tearing up the Illinois scene for her entire high school career, getting progressively faster each year. She's flirted with the mark several times this season (10:15i, 10:17yi, 10:09, 10:06), ever since her stellar indoor season it seemed like just a matter of time before she smashed the 10:00 barrier. Solid recruit for the Hawkeyes.

9:56/4:43 double - truly impressive

1600 Meter Run

Finals

1 Kayla Beattie (Sr.), Woodstock (H.S.) 4:43.65R

2 Katie Adams (So.), Marengo 5:06.54

3 Molly Dahlquist (Sr.), Peoria (Notre Dame) 5:08.93

4 Kelley Gallagher (Sr.), Vernon Hills 5:09.25

5 Ali Hester (Jr.), Yorkville 5:10.24

6 Emily Delvo (Sr.), Springfield (Sacred Heart-Griffin) 5:11.55

7 Sydney Billingsley (Fr.), Normal (University) 5:11.80

8 Claire Haggerty (So.), Grayslake (Central) 5:12.62

9 Karissa Neihouser (Sr.), Morton 5:13.17

10 Emily Clay (Sr.), Normal (University) 5:13.99

11 Leah Brooks (Jr.), Dunlap 5:14.79

12 Dorothy Mangieri (Sr.), Galesburg (H.S.) 5:26.05

Not to mention the small school girl long jumping 20'1" - also won HJ, TJ & 100 - and has 6'0" HJ this year. Smaller schools outperforming the big schools individually.

agapius mackwamba wrote:

9:56/4:43 double - truly impressive

1600 Meter Run

Finals

1 Kayla Beattie (Sr.), Woodstock (H.S.) 4:43.65R

Those are INSANE times

How come I've never heard of this girl?

pssh, i could beat her.

Almost even more impressive than her times is her margin of victory. Absolutely nuts!

It was a close race....for 2nd place. Hard to imagine pushing to a huge PR with no competition. Will she be racing any of the big end of season races against good comp?

Awesome running. Thanks for posting the interview.

I'm Spartacus

agapius mackwamba wrote:

Not to mention the small school girl long jumping 20'1" - also won HJ, TJ & 100 - and has 6'0" HJ this year. Smaller schools outperforming the big schools individually.

Because if you have a coach that really knows what he/she is doing, the training plan can be very personalized and all of the attention is on the individual. Often at smaller schools, participation level isn't so great, and the effort never reaches 100%. At a large school with lots of participation, the coach has to look after a lot of athletes that want to get better.

This isn't always the case though. At NXN this year, a lot of the top competitors also had teams qualify for nationals.

I go to the local private school by her high school and they were kind enough to let me run with them over summer and i always felt my job was her training partner...she was fast, she worked very hard, incredibly humble and the kindess person ive ever met, i would not be surprised to see her in the olympics one day. She earned everything shes doing right now and im proud to say i ran with her on those 7 mile days, she definitly likes too push the pace...trust me she about killed me.

i agree, she looks like she is in perfect shape.

I am from Illinois and everyone knows her here, but I would agree that this year (esp. this track season) has been a big breakout year nationally for her. Her PR for the 3200 was 10:30 last year, nothing to cough at, but not as good as megan goethals and aisling cuffe were and she is incredibly modest and soft spoken so she has been under the radar.

during xc she ran 16:22 for 3 miles and the course record at IL state, but more focus was put on lukas verzbicas- same as when she won nxn midwest. she came in 12 at FL and NXN, but i believe it was her personality that kept her under the radar.

this track season she has put herself on a completely new level, and could definitely challenge aisling cuffe for the national record if they run the same race. she is simply outstanding this season.

I was at the state meet and for the mile prelims she ran the first three laps with the field and then TOOK OFF, and got a good 100 meters. impressive, and then you watched her finished not tired at all, and then you looked down at her feet- she ran itin trainers. not to mention she waited with a smile for every girl to finsih the prelim and gave them a high- five before she ran off. not in a douchy way at all. i was completely impressed.

She definitely skipped a lap in that 3200.

Love the line (Caps mine):

When looking at Iowa’s running program, I feel like Coach Anderson and I will work well together. HE IS A VERY HANDS-ON, involved coach who I feel will push me to be my best.

Read more: News - A Recipe for Success: An Interview with Kayla Beattie

http://www.runnerspace.com/news.php?news_id=18467-A-Recipe-for-Success-An-Interview-with-Kayla-Beattie#ixzz1N3H29O2X

Was this one of the greatest high school female doubles ever? ala German Fernandez?

I was at the meet and it was incredible. Beattie was amazing!

Actually the meet was very very good with a lot of top 20 national marks in several events.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/highschool/ct-spt-0522-prep-g-track-1a-2a-state-20110521,0,1428826.story

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/highschool/ct-spt-0522-prep-g-track-3a-state-20110521,0,7151255.story

thehickenlooper wrote:

It was a close race....for 2nd place. Hard to imagine pushing to a huge PR with no competition. Will she be racing any of the big end of season races against good comp?

She lapped the entire field!

has anyone mentioned that she went out in 4:48 in the first mile of the 3200?