As an obsessed high school runner with terrible times, I always looked at the high school elites during my time as inspiration. Mo Trafeh was it. Coming from Duarte HS and competing in the CIF southern section IN D4, Trafeh was like a god. From the top of my head, I remember seeing him run a sub 1436 (??) at Mt Sac and thinking how much I wanted to be like him. On a different occasion, in 2003 I was a 446 miler on our team's 4x1600 at Arcadia. During our cool down, I saw Mo and just said how much I looked up to him and wished him the best in tomorrow's 2mile against the elites. Who does that?! As the big age of dyestatcal and letsrun were getting started, I worshipped the high school runners that would appear on the front page and in the message boards..Sadly, Mo didn't win the 2mile at Arcadia, but i still believed he was going to be one of the greatest runners in America.
Men 3200 Meter Run Invitational
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Name Year School Finals Points
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1 Solinsky, Chris 12 Stevens Point 8:43.24
2 Vaughn, Brent 12 Smoky Hill,Auror 8:45.60
3 Moe, Carl 12 Auburn River 8:48.04
4 Curtis, Bobby 12 St Xavier,KY 8:48.39
5 Debole, Matt 12 Mount Tabor 8:50.16
6 Hassen, Steven 12 Vanguard HS 8:52.75
7 Ruiz, Manuel 12 Monroe High 8:55.80
8 Trafeh, Mohamed 11 Duarte High 8:55.87
9 Kollar, Christopher 12 Strongsville 8:56.35
10 Nelson, Tim 12 Liberty Chri 8:58.89
11 Alizzi, Mark 12 Syosset High 8:59.63
12 Dalpiaz, Brian 12 Sayville High,NY 9:01.20
13 Romero, Alex 12 Albuquerque 9:02.77
14 Hampton, Charles 11 Brophy Colle 9:04.62
15 Burrell, Ian 12 Air Academy 9:04.78
16 Ramos, Austin 12 Jesuit HS 9:07.17
17 DeVries, Hakon 11 John Jay (Ny 9:10.44
18 Cardenas, Jonathon 11 Reno HS (Nv) 9:12.92
19 Mineau, Jeremy 11 Menlo-Atherton 9:15.30
20 Poe, Mike 12 Etiwanda 9:23.34
21 Wall, Alec 12 Grant (Or) 9:24.10
22 Alcorn, Kyle 12 Buchanan,Clovis 9:31.36
Crazy to see those names. Kyle Alcorn for one cominb out of Buchanan was another godly figures.
When i first read about the rumors of blood doping, I immediately thought of Mo JUST BECAUSE OF THE RUMORS and shit talking people would give after eevery competion Mo ran in. Please don't this be true.