HS girl Christina Aragon HUGE PR 4:16; #5 AT!

Jeez, just realized she's a HS junior.

Poor girl, she can hardly breathe.

I'm assuming she's related to the ND clan of 4:12 1500m runner Dani Aragon, Alexa Aragon who is pretty fast, and Chuck Aragon who was a collegiate sub 4 miler?

Awesome running

Christina's Father is Art (?) Aragon of Notre Dame, who just missed Olympic team at 1,500.

george oscar bluth wrote:

I'm assuming she's related to the ND clan of 4:12 1500m runner Dani Aragon, Alexa Aragon who is pretty fast, and Chuck Aragon who was a collegiate sub 4 miler?

Yes she is.

Notre Dame women's team is a team to watch. Flotrack rated them #1 recruiting class. And I'm pretty sure Christina's going to be a Domer too.

Correction: Chuck Aragon. Sorry.

I remember Chuck Aragon well. Congratulations to him and his daughter! That is pretty sweet to go from 4:44 mile to 4:16 1500m, roughly a 7 second pr, as 4:44 mile converts by 1.08 to 4:23 1500m. And a junior in hs. This is certainly the golden age of high school female middle distance runners in this country with Cranny, Efraimson, Hasay, Cain, and now Aragon all running 4:16 or better.

One of the most exciting Olympic Trials races ever.

Thanks for that link. Amazing how young we looked! I had forgotten about "Etonic" as well...

just shows you how bad Connelly was at recruiting. Sparks / Carlson bring in the #1 class that quickly.

They will start to be where ND should be on the womens side

Because having the #1 recruiting class ALWAYS pans out! Just ask Stanford, Duke, UCLA, etc....

This girl is a stud. Hope she picks a coach that values her as a track runner first and will NOT ruin her speed with cross country. She has run 56.5 and 4:16 this year. She could be a national class (or better) MD runner.

george oscar bluth wrote:

I'm assuming she's related to the ND clan of 4:12 1500m runner Dani Aragon, Alexa Aragon who is pretty fast, and Chuck Aragon who was a collegiate sub 4 miler?

Chuck Aragon was much more than just a collegiate sub-4 miler.

He was a 3:51.62 miler and 3:34.85 in the 1500m as a pro, .

malmo wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiIoDmj7B7s

One of the most exciting Olympic Trials races ever.

Interesting, early leader Mark Fricker is dad of McKayla Fricker, DII 800 champ, who now trains with Efraimson.

I was on the junior AAU team for USA vs USSR in 1978 (Donyetsk), and Chuck Aragon and Todd Harbour were our 800m runners. They both became very strong 1500/milers in the 80s.

Thanks, malmo, great video

ffaasstt wrote:[ Hope she picks a coach that values her as a track runner first and will NOT ruin her speed with cross country.

Because cross country ruined Coe and Ovett's speed ? and Ryun and Wottle?

yes wrote:

just shows you how bad Connelly was at recruiting. Sparks / Carlson bring in the #1 class that quickly.

They will start to be where ND should be on the womens side

Connelly was still around when Siedel and the elder Aragon came in I'm almost certain

Harbour ran 3:50 in college, as I recall.