I just noticed this from LR's write up a week ago.
Is this in college races, or while still in college?
If this is while still in college:
Jose (Tony) Parilla ran 1:43.97 after his sophomore year at Tennessee at the 1992 Olympic Trials.
I just noticed this from LR's write up a week ago.
Is this in college races, or while still in college?
If this is while still in college:
Jose (Tony) Parilla ran 1:43.97 after his sophomore year at Tennessee at the 1992 Olympic Trials.
The key criterion (as set by Track and Field News, whose list is used for this purpose) is that marks must be set during the collegiate season, which is defined as ending with the NCAA outdoor championships. This applies to undergrads as well as graduating seniors.
As long as the mark is set during the collegiate season as defined, it can be run in an open/professional race
This criterion leaves out Parilla as well as Earl Jones, who set an AR 1:43.74 winning the 1984 Oly Trials after his soph college season.
Undeniably somewhat arbitrary. Ryun is on the list with a time he ran in the US open (AAU) champs in 1966. Just happened to be held before NCAAs that year.
Track and field news is irrelavant these dsys. Their own criteria isn't the same for high schools, which they include performances set after the season and going up to the day they enroll in college.
Everyone can have his own opinion. T&FN is not irrelevant because they have done the work to create their collegiate list. Anyone wanting to create a different list would have to do go through a great deal of effort tracking down times from a multitude of athletes.
And would have to create alternative consistent criteria, which is not as easy as it might seem. The high school model of counting summer marks would not necessarily work as satisfactorily for college. But I'll spare the treatise as to why that is the case.
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