Steve Holman: The true hero, but everyone's too ignorant to know it.

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19 years ago 10/15/2004 12:59pm EDT

http://www.runnersworld.com/cda/daily_news/0,,s6-0-0-0-0,00.html

"He was the 1999 USATF 1500 champ outdoors and the 1996 titleist in the mile indoors and won the 1500 at the 1992 outdoor NCAA Championships while at Georgetown. Holman has an MBA from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with his wife, Teresa, and daughter, Chloe. He is an analyst in corporate strategy for the Vanguard Group, a mutual fund company based in suburban Philadelphia."

I actually read that he was a project leader for the firm.

Everyone rips Holman for a couple of bad USATF races. Never mind he defeated his demons in 1999 and placed higher than any other U.S. 1500m'er at world's in the last 12 years. Also never mind that he's one of the best examples ever of a true, classy winner on and off the track.

Anyone who thinks little of Holman is pretty ignorant...and judging by the posts about him in the past, that includes a lot of people in here.

19 years ago 10/15/2004 1:14pm EDT

re: ttc

its probably just the few faceless cowards that attack him a lot. Holman was very fast, blew up and the wrong time, no reason to hate on him. Kinda feel sorry for him actually. Its hard being a guy who is close (by time) to making the olympics. This is a guy who need not worry about Olympic standards and didn't go in 96/00. Must have been frustrating...

19 years ago 10/15/2004 1:34pm EDT

re: holman is fine with me

I always thought the columns he wrote for RunnersWorld online were freakin' hilarious.

19 years ago 10/15/2004 1:43pm EDT

re: Lastly Norman

Holman was a great time-trialer, but not a great racer. With personal bests of 3:31.52 and 3:50.40, you'd think he'd have won more than 1 US title. He also ran 2:16.68 in the 1000 and 4:57.14 in the 2000. I've met him before and he's a great guy, very humble and modest.

19 years ago 10/15/2004 1:50pm EDT

re: STL_Runner

Holman did run some bad races. But, in '99 he won nationals and RACED to the WC finals and RACED to a 9th place finish, which is a better race than any other U.S. miler has run in over 10 years.

In '00, he was not race-fit, but still came in a very close 5th against probably the most talented 1500m group we've had in a while. He actually overachieved.

Holman had problems, but he overcame them and was not the same racer in '99/'00 that he was in '96. But people act like he never progressed, when he did in spectacular fashion.

19 years ago 10/15/2004 4:19pm EDT

re: ttc

ttc......holman very well may be a good guy, but gotta state the obvious, it is what it is:

steve holman was a choker...

19 years ago 10/15/2004 6:33pm EDT

re: Reality

ranked 4th in the world in 95.

williams, croghan, kennedy, and holman, pretty much raised the bar for distance running in the u.s. which had slipped to an all time low before that.

19 years ago 10/15/2004 6:51pm EDT

re: track fan

The "Fearless Predictions" were amazing.

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