So who was the fastest high school freshman?

800: 2:01

1600: 4:32

3200: don't remember but am sure it was sub 10 (9:50ish)

XC: Played football - ran cross grades 10-12

Can you put that into some kind of context?

Froshy vs Expectations vs Senior

I have checked a reliable source and wish to amend my above post as follows:

1600: 4:30.8

3200: 9:48.5

The fastest HS freshman was William Reed. He did a 47-second 400m indoors at age of 14.

Mile - 4:26

Two Mile: 9:24

Serious Div. runner in college - on scholarship - like most, wish I could have done better.

redux wrote:

Can you put that into some kind of context?

Froshy vs Expectations vs Senior

The context is who was the fastest freshman? I feel like that is reasonably clear.

Fastest ever is fine, or your fastest times.

My froth HS times:

203

434

938

Gotcha.

"Over the years we've seen some very promising talent. However, not everyone pans out." made me think you were asking about what your starting times were, what your expectations were based on that, and what you eventually did. To eventually determine who didn't pan out.

800 - 2:16

1600 - 5:09

3200 - 11:10

5k xc - 19:40

800 - 2:11 (I'm not 100% sure about that one, but that's close)

1600 - 4:48

3200 - 10:33

XC (in Ohio when I was a freshman and a sophomore, the distance was 2.5 miles - 13:15

damn, some of you guys were fast as freshmen. This is the only thing I remember about freshman year track:

It was my goal all season to break 5:30 in the 1600. I tried and failed a number of times, and eventually I found myself with only one meet remaining. The last meet on my schedule was some freshman only invite. I remember getting pretty psyched up on the bus, only to learn that the meet was cancelled due to rain/thunder. With championship season coming up, no one cared to reshedule the meet so I never got my last chance at glory. So:

1600: >5:30

Maybe something like

2:22

5:00 (full mile!)

11:02

My improvement beyond freshman year was minimal. : (

Remember LV-ran 19:34 for 4 miles on the road-15 years old

James Burke ran a 4:16 mile last year.

10:18.5 - 2 mile - didn't improve as much as I would have liked (9:42).

800 - 2:03

1600 - 4:36

3200 - 10:22

5K CC - 16:56 (fast course)...typically in the 17:40 range

*5x WI Div I state qualifier in CC and track in the 80s

53

2:12

5:32

Not sure where his times put him all time, but Sintayheu Taye has to have been one of the overall fastest freshmen ever.

4:09 1600 (National class record at the time)

8:30 3k

9:01 3200

9:06 2 mile

9:16 indoor 2 mile (I think)

15:50 xc 5k

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My high school had a kid who ran 1:57-4:17 as a freshman.

He didn't like running though. He ran 1:54-4:15 as a soph and never beat those times. And even still got a scholarship to a D1 school.

I ran 2:11 and 5:04 as a freshman and ended up at 1:57 and 4:08 as a senior after 3 years of year round training. I tried to tell him in high school that he had rare talent but he just flat out didn't like training.

800: 2:08

mile: 4:42

2 mile: 10:13

Made decent progress throughout HS but career was terminated prior to college.