What happened to the California HS guys that are now graduated or 5th year seniors?

College Running

11 years ago 05/08/2012 11:25pm EDT

What happened to these guys: Michael Cybulski, Eric Avila, Travis Kuhlman, Andrew Pilavjian, Josh Linen, Ryan Gamboa, Hudson Andrews, Mikel Thomas. These guys were at the top of all the lists and in front of all the races in high school but what happened to them? I'm just curious because I used to hear about them a lot (being from california and also being in the high school class of 2007 with them). Anybody know if they've done much in college? I know how some other guys are doing like Cory Primm, Ryan Martin, Brendan Gregg, the Knight twins, etc. but I've just been wondering if these other high school greats did anything in college.

11 years ago 05/09/2012 12:47am EDT

re: ARandomQuestion

11 years ago 05/09/2012 1:14am EDT

re: ARandomQuestion

Eric Avila went to NAU, but never ran a race for them. I believe he red-shirted the first year, but after that went to London with his friends or something like that and never returned to running. I think he lost his love for running and dedicated his time to pursuing other things he was interested in like traveling. Not sure if he transfered out later and ran somewhere else, but I don't think he did. He just left the sport all together. Too bad, great talent.

11 years ago 05/09/2012 1:20am EDT

re: hell to the yes

I always wondered what happened to cybulski. i know he went to ucla. i was always impressed he was running elite high school times as a 16/17 year old senior

11 years ago 05/09/2012 1:43am EDT

re: ARandomQuestion

Several of them went off to college to run some respectable times. Here is what I found on their team websites:

Travis Kulhman (Long Beach State): 8K- 24:32

Andrew Pilavjian (UC Santa Barbara): 8k- 24:10

Josh Linen (Chico State): 5k- 14:42

Ryan Gamboa (Notre Dame): 1500- 3:51, Steeple- 9:08

Mikel Thomas (U. of Nebraska) : 5k- 14:39, Steeple- 8:58

Michael Cybulski (UCLA): ?

Eric Avila (NAU): ?

Hudson Andrews (Princeton): ?

11 years ago 05/09/2012 2:23am EDT

re: jones43

eric avila started running again, and is at Southern Oregon. He's already run 3:48.

11 years ago 05/09/2012 11:55am EDT

re: dcba25

When did he transfer to Southern Oregon and how long has he been there?

11 years ago 05/09/2012 12:17pm EDT

re: ARandomQuestion

no idea really, but he ran at a meet I was in.

http://www.directathletics.com/athletes/track/3646439.html

some guy on his team said that he only started running again recently

11 years ago 05/09/2012 10:10pm EDT

re: james hogue

ya, cybulski was a beast in high school. why didn't he run college?

11 years ago 05/10/2012 12:35am EDT

re: jones43

Linen has been injured every year of college. Ran a 14:25 for Chico this spring

11 years ago 05/10/2012 11:57am EDT

re: ARandomQuestion

Didnt CYBULSKI date the hurdler who transferred from UCLA to Oregon?

Maybe they have a nice cottage together in San Francisco and cheering on obama support for them

11 years ago 05/13/2012 7:37pm EDT

re: Slowdown90s

11 years ago 05/13/2012 9:45pm EDT

re: ARandomQuestion

Refering to Eric Avila.

He just started running again this spring after transfering to Southern Oregon University last fall.

Having rekindled his love for running again. He is a huge talent! I know he was a low mileage kid in high school, around 40 miles a week. I talked to a buddy of mine with ties to the Mesa junior college team, I know NAIA has different rules regarding age requirements.

It looks like hes a freshman, I wonder about his degree progress though.

dcba25, what meet did you see him at??

11 years ago 05/14/2012 12:30am EDT

re: ARandomQuestion

Andrew Pilavjian ran 9:05 in the Steeple to place 2nd at the Big West Conference Championships, just behind fellow teammate and (also) former high school class of 2007 member Anthony Masci who ran 9:02

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