8TH GRADER RUNS 4:17!!!!!!

PeaceBro wrote:

Only 14 years old

You heard it here first, will be crushing Lukas Verzbicas's records in a few years.

obviously doping.

I have genuine hatred and a smoldering contempt for this thread.

kid from Northern California ran it at a middle school meet, results are coming out. Any high schools interested in recruiting him.? Gig harbor, Arcadia?

PeaceBro wrote:

Only 14 years old

You heard it here first, will be crushing Lukas Verzbicas's records in a few years.

So, is it the fact that he's only 14 or an older 8th grader?

Both Ogden and Rocha were 14 years old as freshmen and ran 4:17.

next alan webb, hard core crash awaits

This kid is my meal ticket, what's his name? I need to sign him before someone else does.

2013. 9th grade.

7/10

So many responses with so little effort into the original post!

watched it on tv... wrote:

PeaceBro wrote:

In case you've been in isolation, Jordan Hasay's run at a few meets last week. LOL!

That's who it was. I could never remember her name. Is she really still running?

She was 16 when she was in the Oly Trials and yes, she's running for NOP with saladbar

Military salut wrote:

You're right: he's better.

GaryOak wrote:

He's no Austin Tamagno.

Kid can't even handle Tamagno's girth.

cbenson4 wrote:

She was 16 when she was in the Oly Trials and yes, she's running for NOP with saladbar

Don't know what NOP is but she needs more than a saladbar. She was kind of skinny even for a runner.

I did have a classmate in 8th grade that supposedly ran a 2:04 880 time trial before the season started. I didn't see it myself. He ran close to a 5 minute mile as a 7th grader and was running at least an hour a day year round. Back then, we only ran on the track during practice and he had shin splints so he was doing half of his run clockwise. The high school kids started making fun of him so he just quit. Never ran competitively again.

What girth?

ProfessorOak wrote:

Military salut wrote:

You're right: he's better.

Kid can't even handle Tamagno's girth.

decaf seriously wrote:

Skeptic of it All wrote:

Jason Balkman ran 4:18 as an 8th grader. Ran well in HS, 4:16 mile & CA state champ in xc and 3200. Went to Stanford, ran for Vin. Multiple time All America. Ran in the trials.

Probably could have been even better but he's smart... A doctor now. Still can be seen out on the trails crushing 6 min pace though he hasn't run for a month. He's most famous for winning footlocker west region in Fresno in 14 something hen not going to nationals because he had a date to his winter ball. She must have been fine!

Wait - You mean throughout his career he chose to have a life instead of obsessing over his running career or spending time on a running board playing Monday morning quarterback about other runners - What A Quack!!

no, he means the kid picked a high school winter dance over a national championship race... that's the dictionary definition of p-whipped...

watched it on tv..... wrote:

cbenson4 wrote:

She was 16 when she was in the Oly Trials and yes, she's running for NOP with saladbar

Don't know what NOP is but she needs more than a saladbar. She was kind of skinny even for a runner.

cbenson4 wrote:

Drink n run wrote:

Heard of several young girls running great times in the 90's, never heard from them again. Heard of another boy in 8th grade running 4:30 in early 200, never heard from him after that.

We will see with this kid.

That boy you heard about in early 2000s is probably Justin Brinkley. He became the US Junior Champion in the 1500m last year with a 3:46.

or maybe Mark Blackmon.

There have been plenty of 8th graders that have run 4:30ish. Some turned out to be nationally elite runners, some regionally elite runners, and some run into injury problems. Success in middle school doesn't say much about where they'll end up eventually... best approach is to wait until the kid is a junior/senior to really start taking anything from the times being run.

watchout wrote:

cbenson4 wrote:

That boy you heard about in early 2000s is probably Justin Brinkley. He became the US Junior Champion in the 1500m last year with a 3:46.

or maybe Mark Blackmon.

Surprised you didn't mention Isak Bergman. His 4:20 (?) in 8th grade--which must have happened in 2002 or so--was probably the best-known male middle school performance of that era.

old school 'stat wrote:

Surprised you didn't mention Isak Bergman. His 4:20 (?) in 8th grade--which must have happened in 2002 or so--was probably the best-known male middle school performance of that era.

I mean Nectaly Barbosa of course! And it looks like he "only" ran 4:29.

PeaceBro wrote:

Only 14 years old

You heard it here first, will be crushing Lukas Verzbicas's records in a few years.

Bold prediction but you were right. Lukas' PRs:

1500 Metres 3:55.11

One Mile 3:59.71

Two Miles 8:29.46

5000 Metres 14:51.77

Webb had just turned 16 when he ran 4:06 in his first season of running.