Best Runners from your HS

Josh McDougal, if he hadn't been home-schooled.

So...my answer is...Andy Hastings, a 4:12-miler in a HS no one's heard about. Go, Saranac! :)

I don't think Kennedy ever held the 10000 AR.

I am the third best distance runner and second fastest ever from my high school (because one was a girl).

In order of greatness:

1) Michelle Slykhuis - Great runner who then ran for Miami (OH).

2) Brent Frissora - He broke all of my school records in 2000 and 2001 (that I had set in 1984 and 1985) by a second or two, so he was better.

3) Me, Flagpole.

Steve Wheeler, who became an ACC three-mile champ and sub-4:00 miler at Duke

browski wrote:

I don't think Kennedy ever held the 10000 AR.

You are correct. He did not.

Dustin Emerick of the University of Southern Indiana went to my high school. He was a three time CC all-stater with a 3 mile best of 14:53. At USI he has been a 2x All-American in CC and ran a 28:41 10K this past track season.

Marion Jones

OP, you go to Westerville North? Central Ohio pretty much sucks for producing good runners other than Bobby Kennedy. The only person (male or female) even to make it to Footlocker from the area in the past 10 years is Claire Durkin in '07 and she quit to go be a doctor or something. Even Ohio State's team isn't very good. So, no, I never had anyone good from my high school and my team blows so that we can't even win our OCC.

my graduating class was 105 people, and we had a guy run 9:20 and 4:28.

he went on to gain prs of

5k 14:54

8k 25:10

10k 31:20

not sure what he's up to these days.

A guy from my high school is the favorite to win the high jump at worlds this year - the great Jesse Williams!

Will Leer, 1500 best of 3:36, finalist U.S. Championships. Also, he only ran 4:16 for the 1600 in high school.

Flagpole wrote:

browski wrote:

I don't think Kennedy ever held the 10000 AR.

You are correct. He did not.

Sorry, not the 10k record holder... But still pretty fast. Yeah, I went to westerville north.

I can't remember his name (before even my time!), but we had a guy who was close to the national mile lead in 1964: 4:14.2. (Well, okay, not *that* close--a junior ran 15+ seconds faster that year...)

[We also had Danny Brabham, a few years later (a class or two ahead of me), who was like a 24' LJer in high school (plus a State champ in pole vault)--later an acclaimed coach at Baylor.]

Anyway, the mile guy training was über-simple: he came out to practice an hour before everyone else, ran 20 quarters, and then joined the group practice after that. Twenty quarters, every single day.

Went to school, and ran with, with an eventual 44.57 400m runner.

Not a single runner, but I always thought it was cool that two of the members of Penn State's 7:11 4X800 squad came from my high school. Both Randy Moore and Chris Mills ran at State College in the early to mid '80s.

Micah Vandenend - State champ in IL XC and 2 mile...9:02 and 4:11. 13:47? school record 5k at Iowa. Hurt during XC alot....dusted some All Americans, winning his Senior year at Regionals, but ripped up his leg doing it. 82nd and injured at Nationals.

Eric MagTaggert - 8:55 in high school. All American 10k at Iowa.

Jonathan Riley

5k - 13:19

Jack Bolas, 3:58 miler. Runs for New Balance.