Grant Fisher qualifies for world juniors... As a junior (2nd place)

The play by play was awful. They were clueless.

They were totally clueless. I'm somewhat surprised he made the team, but lets face it, the college guys were baked. Running meets since Dec/Jan. GF picks his spots and races 2-3 times indoor and only doubles at a few meets for his High School (Conf, Regional, State). They (His dad, private coach, and GF) prepared for this moment and he delivered. Pretty damn impressive. Very impressive.

link to results?

Not to point out the complete obvious, but you posting the initials GF made me realize that Grant is probably the best high school runner we've seen since German Fernandez. Magic in the "GF".

Results:

Place Athlete Time

1 Patrick Joseph

Virginia Tech 3:49.76

2 Grant Fisher

Unattached 3:50.51

3 Cameron Villarreal

Texas A&M 3:51.75

4 Thomas Coyle

Stanford 3:52.94 [3:52.932]

5 Eric Claxton

Indiana 3:52.94 [3:52.936]

6 Austin Tamagno

Unattached 3:54.04

7 Kyle Medina

Unattached 3:54.36

8 Henry Wynne

Virginia 3:54.78

9 Martin Martinez

Brown 3:54.91

10 Michael Wyman

Emerging Elites 3:56.52

11 Clayton Murphy

Akron 3:59.13

12 Geremia Lizier-Zmudzins

Unattached 4:02.11

Hank Moody wrote:

Not to point out the complete obvious, but you posting the initials GF made me realize that Grant is probably the best high school runner we've seen since German Fernandez. Magic in the "GF".

"best since german fernandez".... LV?????

aslan wrote:

Hank Moody wrote:

Not to point out the complete obvious, but you posting the initials GF made me realize that Grant is probably the best high school runner we've seen since German Fernandez. Magic in the "GF".

"best since german fernandez".... LV?????

He said "high school runner", not "cheating gypsy scam artist who attended high school in his 20s".

Chef Gordon Ramzi wrote:

aslan wrote:

"best since german fernandez".... LV?????

He said "high school runner", not "cheating gypsy scam artist who attended high school in his 20s".

For the last time, Lithuania keeps accurate birth records and LV graduated high school in 3 years so that his senior year was regular-age.

Steve Cram's nemesis wrote:

They were totally clueless. I'm somewhat surprised he made the team, but lets face it, the college guys were baked. Running meets since Dec/Jan. GF picks his spots and races 2-3 times indoor and only doubles at a few meets for his High School (Conf, Regional, State). They (His dad, private coach, and GF) prepared for this moment and he delivered. Pretty damn impressive. Very impressive.

Good point. The college guys race too much

Steve Cram's nemesis wrote:

They were totally clueless. I'm somewhat surprised he made the team, but lets face it, the college guys were baked. Running meets since Dec/Jan. GF picks his spots and races 2-3 times indoor and only doubles at a few meets for his High School (Conf, Regional, State). They (His dad, private coach, and GF) prepared for this moment and he delivered. Pretty damn impressive. Very impressive.

Who were the announcers? I listened to the woman's 3k and it was about as bad as you can get. thinking the 3k was an olympic event (one of them at least, the other wasn't that bad as he kept correcting the other guy with some common sense at least). Comments about maybe jenks is lulling Cain to sleep (as Cain is pulling away from her..). Saying there are 2 laps to go when there were 3 laps, on and on with stupid comments.

A quacker wrote:

Good point. The college guys race too much

Maybe not too much for their own seasons, especially if there are second-tier runners on their respective teams. The elite-tier collegiate runners generally won't race as often, as they often plan on racing into the summer.

He's Lithuanian? For Pete's sake, how can he be then an American HS sub 4 holder. He's just another foreigner who weasled his way in to HS. He definitely is a gypsy

Sean McGorty had an impressive high school career and has transitioned well to college.

3:49 for the 1500 as a HS Senior.

4:04 full mile as a HS Senior.

8:45 for full two mile as a HS Senior.

14:28 5K as a HS Senior.

1:53 800 as a HS Senior and I've watched him casually split 1:51s.

On the note of his transition to college, McGorty has run 3:44 in the 1500 and 13:37 in the 5K. Impressive performances for a true freshman.

Fisher's youth does add an element of impressiveness to his performances, but he's not so far and away better than some of the top runners we've seen since Fernandez.

Can't wait to see what GF does at World Juniors!

Also, I'd heard the name McGorty, but didn't know his exact times. 4:04/8:45 as a HS runner marks him as one of the best, and I'm glad to hear he's improving as a freshman. Didn't he do fairly well at NCAAs? I seem to remember reading about him there.

Mike Honcho wrote:

He's Lithuanian? For Pete's sake, how can he be then an American HS sub 4 holder. He's just another foreigner who weasled his way in to HS. He definitely is a gypsy

I'm sorry, I didn't realize that to go to high school in America you had to be American-born or even American. In any case, LV came to the US when he was 9 I believe and is in fact an American citizen.

As for your last sentence....just no.

Mike Honcho wrote:

He's Lithuanian? For Pete's sake, how can he be then an American HS sub 4 holder. He's just another foreigner who weasled his way in to HS. He definitely is a gypsy

He is from Lithuania, but is a USA citizen.

Hank Moody wrote:

Not to point out the complete obvious, but you posting the initials GF made me realize that Grant is probably the best high school runner we've seen since German Fernandez. Magic in the "GF".

Had you not said those were his initials, I would've gone through this entire discussion thinking his girlfriend was his coach. Which then got me thinking of a girl his age that would be great enough to coach. Which then got me thinking of that picture he tweeted of him and Mary Cain... damn how cool was that side tracked thought streak??

Also a pretty good run by high school soph Tamagno.

D1Dreamer wrote:

Hank Moody wrote:

Not to point out the complete obvious, but you posting the initials GF made me realize that Grant is probably the best high school runner we've seen since German Fernandez. Magic in the "GF".

Had you not said those were his initials, I would've gone through this entire discussion thinking his girlfriend was his coach. Which then got me thinking of a girl his age that would be great enough to coach. Which then got me thinking of that picture he tweeted of him and Mary Cain... damn how cool was that side tracked thought streak??

Ahahaha. Honestly I just forgot about LV. Wasn't deliberately excluding him.