So this kid is an 8th grader but he is 15 years old? I was 15 when I was a sophomore. I guess he is going into 9th grade, but don't you think he is a little old to be an 8th grader?
So this kid is an 8th grader but he is 15 years old? I was 15 when I was a sophomore. I guess he is going into 9th grade, but don't you think he is a little old to be an 8th grader?
He might have a birthday that falls into a certain place, or his parents held him back a year for whatever reason...if he is setting age-group records it is probably for sports. Last year this one kid in my son's middle school track conference was tearing everybody up in the 800/mile, then we found out that he was already 15, his dad was a former D-1 runner (and doesn't let anyone forget it) and he held him back a year.
yeah I guess its just the kid is obviously good but labeling him as an 8th grader is obviously misleading.
As a 8th grader he has run:
10.51 in the 100
20.9 in the 200
46.4 in the 400
Regardless of his age he will have 4 more years to compete against as a HS athlete. Does anybody know if he just turned 15, which would make him only few months older than the avg 8th grader or was he held back a grade and will turn 16 soon?
Even if he turns 16 soon running those times as a freshman is truly incredible.
They base the age groups off of birth year, so the 15-16 age group is for people born 1999-2000. Any 14 year olds born in 2000 have to compete in the 15-16 age group
Here in Ohio, you can compete in high school athletics as long as you don't turn 19 BEFORE Aug. 1. So, that means you can for sure be 15 in 8th grade. Yes, you will be an older 8th grader, but it's not unheard of and is in fact accounted for (at least here in Ohio).
Born March 2000 according to IAAF site. Should of been a Freshmen this past season. Would of been fastest freshman in the country this year.
Flagpole wrote:
Here in Ohio, you can compete in high school athletics as long as you don't turn 19 BEFORE Aug. 1. So, that means you can for sure be 15 in 8th grade. Yes, you will be an older 8th grader, but it's not unheard of and is in fact accounted for (at least here in Ohio).
Yep, same pretty much everywhere.
The kid will turn 19 years old at the start of his senior (outdoor) track season - old for his class, but not exactly uncommon.
"He'll win. He always wins. But he stopped running to win a while ago. Now he runs for time. Cooper has been training to dip under the 45-second mark.
"Now I'm trying for a 45.9. I'm almost there," Cooper says before the race. "No one has beat me this year. I'll make that time if I run with older people who can push me."
Cooper is part of Miami Gardens Xpress, a track team that breeds star athletes. Remarkably, kids are choosing to forsake video games and air conditioning to race in South Florida's searing heat. The team has swelled from 40 kids a decade ago to almost 300 runners today. MGX has won one national club championship and set 19 national records and eight Junior Olympic records. Cooper and his teammate, 16-year-old Jamal Walton, helped. They're the two fastest teenagers in Florida"
He's not being coached by the school, he's part of a program.
So what does his coach know about training kids, and how does he get 2 kids to 45-46 in the 400?
incoming freshman wrote:
They base the age groups off of birth year, so the 15-16 age group is for people born 1999-2000. Any 14 year olds born in 2000 have to compete in the 15-16 age group
^This
If you turn 15 this year, even Dec 31, you are "15". Even if you are 14 today.
Its a huge advantage to be born in Jan in most sports for many kids.
br0ski wrote:
So this kid is an 8th grader but he is 15 years old? I was 15 when I was a sophomore. I guess he is going into 9th grade, but don't you think he is a little old to be an 8th grader?
All the PC sissies sidestepping the truth. The kid is closer to 16 and he's racing 8th graders who are usually 13 - 14. It's disgraceful. Can this kid read at all? Wait, it's all our fault his mom is a crap parent.
big br0ski wrote:
br0ski wrote:So this kid is an 8th grader but he is 15 years old? I was 15 when I was a sophomore. I guess he is going into 9th grade, but don't you think he is a little old to be an 8th grader?
All the PC sissies sidestepping the truth. The kid is closer to 16 and he's racing 8th graders who are usually 13 - 14. It's disgraceful. Can this kid read at all? Wait, it's all our fault his mom is a crap parent.
There is a trend, parents keeping their kids back a year or 2 for better chance of an athletic scholarship, this happens a lot in football and wrestling, example one of the best 9th grade high school wrestlers in the nation was 17 as a HIGH SCHOOL freshman, his grades are good, his parents said they purposely held him back a couple (My guess is 3 years) because he is small for his age and they want him to grow as 125 is the smallest college weight.
He has already verbally committed to a Division 1 program, he will be 18 in December as a high school sophomore, he would be too old to compete in the 12th grade, so he may try to graduate after the 11th grade.
I will not say his name as I got a lot of people upset by pointing this out in a wrestling forum TheMat.com as I thought it was kind of cheating as most people who are freshmen in College were 17-18 when I was in college.
Jesus, I can see why Sprint Geezer gave up on the place.
21 MAR 2000. The kid is 15 years and 4 months. He is not closer to 16. He's running against the clock, not the kids in grade 8.
Ha!
Ridiculous, however;
When i lined up for my first college cross country meet at furman i was 17.
Clemson was in the next box, julius ogaro was running for them, and had already run on 2 olympic teams, he must have been 27 or 28 years old ...
I guess the good old days are back ....