Seventh Grader Runs 4:30 and 2:03

He turned 13 in February. Chances of burning out are slim since he is a much better baseball player. Running is a hobby. Can't play baseball forever, but you can run forever. His father.

Best of luck.

Would you be willing to share some of his training, either on here or via email? Thank you.

Well, when he was 13 Alan Webb was a highly competitive swimmer and when he 17 he was scaring 4:00 for the mile. He found a coach that realized he had a bigger future in track than swimming. I doubt that Dolan is really a much better baseball player than a runner no matter how good he is at baseball. He is at 99.999 percentile for the Mile at age 13.

I agree that in 7th grade, if you can break 5:20, track is most likely your best sport.

This is promising. But we all remember Jippers Bronfman, who ran a 4:17 in 5th grade a while back (I think around 2001). I don't believe he went on to produce anything spectacular. And he'd be about 23 by now.

Yeah but Jippers did get a silver in the two man skeleton last winter olympics.

Mco wrote:

Chances of burning out are slim since he is a much better baseball player.

he must be a really good baseball player if he's better at baseball than a sport in which he's the best in the country for his age group.

Where does he sit on the development scale. That decides how good he is.

I've seen several 13yos at 2.00-2.04. In every case they had developed very early and were properly trained. I didn't see any of them go on with it.

Most of the top guys were very good as youth athletes (they had to show their talent by that age), but usually not at the top. That is simply determined by physical development.

Didn't a Jamaican run 48 as a 14yo the other day? That's way bigger than a 13yo running 2.03.

Karma Police wrote:

Didn't a Jamaican run 48 as a 14yo the other day? That's way bigger than a 13yo running 2.03.

No it's not especially if the 14yo is nearing 15.

801 dude wrote:

Karma Police wrote:

Didn't a Jamaican run 48 as a 14yo the other day? That's way bigger than a 13yo running 2.03.

No it's not especially if the 14yo is nearing 15.

yes it is.

A 2.03 equates to about a 54 for 400 at that age. One year later running 6 seconds faster over 400 is galaxies ahead.

Mco wrote: Running is a hobby.

Wow, this young kid a hobby jogger, runs for fun, and dropping times that over 99% of the readers of this forum could never run. If baseball is the kid's dream, that what he should do.

Looks like Dolan recently ran a 2:00.22 for a new 800m PR. He won the Charleston County SC 800m against upperclassmen. It's strange seeing a "7" at the top of the Class column ahead of a bunch of 12, 11, and 10s. He is running remarkably fast times for such a young kid.

http://sc.milesplit.com/meets/172283/results/299025

Big kid for 7th grade. Must have gone through puberty already

http://sc.milesplit.com/athletes/4044088-dolan-owens/photos

oops wrong pic.

Incredible.

13/14 NR is 1:56.x If that post above is truthful he has like 16 months to break it.

Dolan followed up his 2:00.22 with a 2:00.27 two days later to win the Tri-County Championship by almost 2 seconds.

http://sc.milesplit.com/meets/163233/results/299651

I *think* his next race will be at the Region 8-3A meet on April 30. He's been running against high school kids thus far, so I'm assuming he'll get to run in the regional meet as a seventh grader.

GoldenMile wrote:

Is this the fastest time ever for a US 7th grader? I can't imagine it being that much faster than 4:30.

As I recall Jorge Torres was at least that fast as 7th grader.

Looks like he is done, only ran 2:01.x ;-)