Mary Cain as a freshman has already established herself as a legend in high school distance running. The amount of talent she possess is mind boggling, not since Mary Decker have we seen this kind of talent in such a young female.
2:03.7 relay leg
4:17 1500m defeating Aisling Cuffe
and certainly could run sub 10 in 3200m
amazing range and one in a generation type athlete just like Mary Decker.
MaryMary wrote:
and certainly could run sub 10 in 3200m
What has she run for 3200m so far?
Let's see how she does in the next 45 minutes.
'certainly could run sub 10' is not the same as running sub 10.
The girl has a LOT of potential. Let's let her run some of it before we start with the comparisons.
Comparisons are made all the time all over sports so stop trying to act intelligent. Mary Cain could definitely run this year 2:02 800m, 4:39 mile, and at least 9:56 3200m in paced runs or if she had concentrated on any one event.
Have a freshman distance runner ever won Gatorade Athlete of the Year?
She won't get it over cuffe.
MaryMary wrote:
Comparisons are made all the time all over sports so stop trying to act intelligent. Mary Cain could definitely run this year 2:02 800m, 4:39 mile, and at least 9:56 3200m in paced runs or if she had concentrated on any one event.
Have a freshman distance runner ever won Gatorade Athlete of the Year?
Mary Cain is beating Cuffe quite easily.
I don't think she could run sub 10. Her best in a 3000 is 9:28. She doesn't have huge endurance either as when compared to Cuffe. At XC States, Cuffe 17:19.6 while Cain got 18:42.7. While Cain may have tremendous speed, I don't think she has the endurance to get the sub-10.
MaryMary wrote:
Comparisons are made all the time all over sports so stop trying to act intelligent. Mary Cain could definitely run this year 2:02 800m, 4:39 mile, and at least 9:56 3200m in paced runs or if she had concentrated on any one event.
Have a freshman distance runner ever won Gatorade Athlete of the Year?
"could" in your mind, but she hasn't.
Let the girl show us what she's got without so much speculation. She's run a HANDFUL of races this year.
big race coming up wrote:
What has she run for 3200m so far?
Let's see how she does in the next 45 minutes.
Has she run it yet? Results?
Mary Cain is incredibly impressive, and her versatility is just one of her attributes.In the 1500 she shows her speed which is truly unprecedented by a female distance runner, creating a 50m gap in less than 200m. raw speed like this shows a lot of potentiall:
that just shows a couple of bums
She has run the 1500 equivalent of 4:37 (full) already in a championship race, so more like 4:35 seems reasonable in a "paced" i.e. pro race.
MaryMary wrote:
Comparisons are made all the time all over sports so stop trying to act intelligent. Mary Cain could definitely run this year 2:02 800m, 4:39 mile, and at least 9:56 3200m in paced runs or if she had concentrated on any one event.
Have a freshman distance runner ever won Gatorade Athlete of the Year?
greenliner1 wrote:
Mary Cain is incredibly impressive, and her versatility is just one of her attributes.In the 1500 she shows her speed which is truly unprecedented by a female distance runner, creating a 50m gap in less than 200m. raw speed like this shows a lot of potentiall:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drk4emkXC3A
Yuck. She acts like a black dude. No thanks.
oh great wrote:
Yuck. She acts like a black dude. No thanks.
eys gonna kicke ur atz
greenliner and oh great
Stop posting a NBA link that has nothing to do with Mary Cain or track and field!
If she goes for time I think she could post the first sub 4:40 mile by a freshman female today.
update wrote:
Has she run it yet? Results?
The race is at 6:10 pm.
http://www.facebook.com/newbalancenationalsif hormones don't turn her into a big butt, she'll be great.
It's difficult, and perhaps unfair, to try to predict future greatness for any freshman. Yes, Decker was phenomenal at 14 (including beating the previous year's OG silver medalist), and went on to be a world-beater (literally); but there've been plenty of frosh phenoms since then, and only a few have become national class later on. In contrast to boys, who almost all become faster with physical maturity, it's hard to predict how (or how much) a 14-year-old girl will change.
Better, I think, just to give the runner her due *now*--and wish her the best in the remaining races (including today's) in her amazing season.
PS Go, New York!
J.R. wrote:
Mary Cain is beating Cuffe quite easily.
Im not hating on Cain, I am a fan, but she is hardly "beating Cuffe quite easily". Clearly they have different specialties. Cuffe crushes her at XC, and 3k/3200 and would in a 5k on the track. Cain would beat her in a 400 and 800. They are close in the 1500/Mile. Cain has the upper hand, but I dont think Cain would beat her more that 70% of the time at that distance. Less than 2 seconds at states separated them when Cuffe ran a hard 9:16 3k the night before.
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At XC States, Cuffe 17:19.6 while Cain got 18:42.7.
Yes, and when Bob Kennedy became the first American to break 13:00 for 5,000, Rupp probably couldn't break seven minutes for a single mile.
You do realize that high-school cross-country in New York State was over about seven months ago and that freshmen runners can improve a great deal in seven months, right?