Hard to believe no one has mentioned arguably the most surprising and impressive performance for the US at the JR world champs.
Brianna Nerud broke the National HS and JR steeple record PR'ing by 19 seconds!!!!
Hard to believe no one has mentioned arguably the most surprising and impressive performance for the US at the JR world champs.
Brianna Nerud broke the National HS and JR steeple record PR'ing by 19 seconds!!!!
Who?
I was waiting for this to come up. I expected it to be a bigger deal.
10:00.7 for Brianna Nerud of North Shore High School (signed with Syracuse). Shattered Mel Lawrence's 10:15 HSR and just nipped Shelby Greany's AJR. Very impressive stuff. She led a good deal of the final as well..oh, and she ran 10:07 in the prelims two days before.
A very bright star and she can make a big impact on the NCAA scene next year as a freshman. She's also very good in XC and at the mile and 5000.
Agreed, Her time of 10:00.15 would of placed her 3rd in the NCAA's final.
A 17 yr old breaks a US junior record and no mention-AMAZING
Actually its comical!!
It's been in large print on the homepage for a while.
It's.
that's just because this event is not often tried on the junior level, so the record's not considered as special, but 10 flat is quite good by the current standards of American female steepling, where 9:30s and possibly low 9:40s make the Olympic team. Not on the level of Ashley Spencer's 50.50 in the 400m, just 2nd on the U.S. junior all time rankings.
I had a feeling I knew the answer to this...which was confirmed when I did a quick google search. The answer to the question: "what does Brianna have to do to grab headlines on Letsrun?" is this: be white, unfortunately. If Brianna Nerud was white, she'd get the full star treatment. Typical LR racism. But really.
??!! wrote:
Agreed, Her time of 10:00.15 would of placed her 3rd in the NCAA's final.
Huh?
Did you mean "would've"?
Have you seen what she looks like????????????
Brianna is 17. Thats what makes it special, not the junior record.
THE US women had some really nice performances from Ajee Wilson to Brianna Nerud to Cayla Hatton to Mary Cain. A job well done!
in case we forgot. I guess the easy runs and hills won out. lol
umm . . . ever heard of Jordon Hasay?
I wonder if Brianna actually just ran hills and strides all year? Anyone have familiarity with North Shore
??!! wrote:
Hard to believe no one has mentioned arguably the most surprising and impressive performance for the US at the JR world champs.
Brianna Nerud broke the National HS and JR steeple record PR'ing by 19 seconds!!!!
Whenever you want to see something posted on the LRC message board just go ahead and posted it in the LRC message board. That's how this stuff gets here.
+1!
I know Coach Levy and I know Miss Nerud Very well.....Hills and strides ....thats it...all year. She is the hardest working athlete I have ever met in my entire life and I have met some top tier athletes. Whoever said she was not white is an idiot. She is white and has abs of steal...want to talk about what she looks like the muscles on that girl are insane. She pours her heart and soul into every run and workout....people who know her know that she is crazy but crazy in all the right ways. She goes above and beyond the call of duty to perform the best she can her diet to ab workouts to runs. It is embarrassing the lack of attention she got for this incredible back to back performances. She has been a top tier athlete for years and never seemed to get any attention for her great performances maybe because of team success or her also high performing teammate Samantha Nadel. The worst part is ....she does not even want any attention at all EVER for this great athlete is SO humble even when she breaks records...she is in it for the love of the sport...she is inspiring really. I dare anyone to look over her accomplishments throughout highschool and tell me that she is not underrated. WATCHOUT NCAA--she will be a force to be reckoned with next year.
random2 wrote:
I wonder if Brianna actually just ran hills and strides all year? Anyone have familiarity with North Shore
I'm pretty sure the North Shore Girls do A LOT of racing--more than most HS girls teams at that level. If you look at Nerud's MileSplit page she ran the 2k steeple 5 times and the 3k steeple 3 times BEFORE the USATF meet. How many times do most collegiate steeplers race the steeple? Maybe once or twice before a conference and then as far as they can get in the postseason. That's a ton of racing. She was also racing other distances and relays. Maybe they only do hills and strides but they race more frequently than a lot of elite HS teams, all that racing takes the place of a standard interval workout or tempo.