Ryan Hall loses school record (to Webb)

Distant relation to Alan Webb?

rarified air wrote:

Congrats to Caleb.

So Big Bear High has had 3 runners go sub-9 for 3200. How many other high schools can claim such an accolade?

Probably plenty. More impressively two schools have had 3 sub 9:00y runners on their team at the same time - Hammond in Indiana when Chapa was there and Northport from NY last year had 3 guys dip under in the same race.

The rival school when I was in high school has at this point had 3 at least 3 sub 9 3200m that I can think of.

I'd bet in California, Texas and other highly populated areas where running is popular and competitive there are plenty of schools

Forgot to mention a college teammate of mine ran 9:00 for the 3200 in high school and had 3 sub-9 teammates (but for 3200m, not for 2 miles).

Wasn't there a team a couple years ago that had three guys sub 9 in the SAME RACE?

Not that rare, but great job to Caleb!

Bishop Kenny high school in Jacksonville had two guys under 9:00 for 3200m in the same race a few years ago

WEBB IS HERE BABY!

I think the point the OP is making is that Ryan Hall doesn't even have the record at his high school, where he became a phenom. What are the chances?

Big Bear High School didn't even have a track/xc team before Hall came on the scene, despite being a very old school. Also, it is an isolated and poor public school in a rural low-income community, with less than 800 student enrollment. 75% of the school population lives below the poverty line. Their team is very small and disadvantaged, in a welfare community obsessed with football.

Having 3 or more kids under 9:00 ever at a given high school is in fact very rare, despite what others have said here. California has a whopping 1300 high schools, but only six of them have ever had 3 kids break 9:00. Exactly how is that not classified as rare?

Hammond, Indiana

The decline of Ryan Hall continues.

Flo'da boy wrote:

Bishop Kenny high school in Jacksonville had two guys under 9:00 for 3200m in the same race a few years ago

Actually, only Colin Barker (8:56.80) broke 9 minutes for the 3200m that year on his team. His teammate Michael Wallace went 9:02.22 in the same race though. Both impressive times but BK didn't have two guys go under 9 but they were damn close.

Who?

Rudy Chapa, Carey Pinkowski, and Tim Keough all ran sub 9:00 on the same high school team in the same year (1975). Never been done before or since. Here is the SI article from 1975.

http://www.si.com/vault/1975/06/16/606646/three-into-2-miles-who-go-go-go

Runn262 wrote:

Rudy Chapa, Carey Pinkowski, and Tim Keough all ran sub 9:00 on the same high school team in the same year (1975). Never been done before or since. Here is the SI article from 1975.

http://www.si.com/vault/1975/06/16/606646/three-into-2-miles-who-go-go-go

That has already been mentioned, and it's also not true that they're the only team to accomplish it. It was done again last year, in the same race. As I already said.

Pretty cool stat. where is Caleb Webb going to go to college?

rarified air wrote:

Congrats to Caleb.

So Big Bear High has had 3 runners go sub-9 for 3200. How many other high schools can claim such an accolade?

re: "3 runners go sub-9 for 3200. How many other high schools can claim such an accolade?"

I am sure there are quite a few, I coached at a high school that had 3, two of which I coached.

that's pretty fast. do you have a source? track and field news' prep lists seem to go against your hypothesis.

sorry you're right about that. I'm chalking that up to monday morningitis. my apologies. geez that's a fast school

Dexter, MI

TrackCoach wrote:I am sure there are quite a few, I coached at a high school that had 3, two of which I coached.

IIRC, there have been exactly 20 schools nationally that have had 3 runners go sub-9 for 3200m. Out of 20,000 high schools, that's pretty unique.