Somethingsomething wrote:
He also comes from a smaller program that probably doesn't go through the high mileage that Arcadia and Dana Hills go through.
Let's correct that high mileage stuff. I don't know about Arcadia, but Tim Butler at Dana Hills does NOT believe in high mileage. Max boys mileage in XC is about 60mpw. Lots of hills, though.
euclidean wrote:
This kid won't amount to jack squat.
Watch the video linked above. He's already mature/muscular, not a developing bean-pole. He has unimpressive biomechanics. He has apparently been doing organized training for quite some time [according to you folks] and is now at a top HS program.
I've been around the California track scene for 35 years. I knows how to pick 'em. This kid ain't no Ryan Hall or German Fernandez.
You sir are an ASS.
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Phillip Rocha
Jake Ogden
Austin Tomagno
These three are amazing. The future looks very bright.
I look forward to some good races in the near future!!
its the same in a lot of sports a lot of good football and basketball players just happen to go to long beach poly, mater dei etc. a lot of good wrestlers just happen to wind up at blair in new jersey, graham in ohio, apple valley in minnesota. berkeley high school had incredible amount of talent in track in the early 1980's (a dozen kids under 48 for 400 for example which is more than most division 1 schools.
really what probably happens is the parents see or are told their kid has talent, so they arrange to transfer their job near a high school with a good program, so the strong get stronger for a while, then the coach leaves example long beach wilsons girlstrack coach last year, the muir coach in track in the 1990's, the berkeley track coach in the 1980's, and then the program usually falls apart, not always.
I always wonder about these progidies. The true prodigies are those guys that do well young under very little mileage. High mileage young people usually means a great high school career and seldom a great college career. I remember when Ryan Deak was a dominating freshman running really high miles. I new he would never amount to much after high school,...but if u mentioned that on the message boards back then, then the message posters would jump all over you
GTR wrote:
I always wonder about these progidies. The true prodigies are those guys that do well young under very little mileage. High mileage young people usually means a great high school career and seldom a great college career. I remember when Ryan Deak was a dominating freshman running really high miles. I new he would never amount to much after high school,...but if u mentioned that on the message boards back then, then the message posters would jump all over you
so what'd you think about Ritz and Hall?