smallstatetitles wrote:
I live in Maine so that kind of thing happens frequently. Harris of Penn State either won or was xc runner up his jr year of high school. Set the state 200m and 800m state records last year. Had another guy back in 08 I believe win xc in 16:20 and run 49.x in the spring to win the 400m (also placed in the 100m and 200m). Carsyn Koch the d2 800m champ was a 4x xc champ in high school as well as a multiple time 100m champion.
While it certainly is more common among high school girls rather than boys in Maine, what you described does not happen "frequently" whatsoever, especially since the order of events goes 400-300h-800-200. I don't think that word means what you think it means. Isaiah Harris was the first male athlete in Maine's history to even attempt the 200-800-1600 triple (he also anchored the 4x4) let alone win all of three individual events. Maine does not have very good sprinters, but it still takes a special kind of runner to run 4:18 without breaking a sweat, cruise to a 1:55 800 win, and then run a 22.25 in the 200 not even 20 minutes later, beating out a 48.4 400m runner in the process, and then anchoring his teams winning 4x4 in 47.low. Isaiah was one of the top XC runners in Maine that fall, but did not compete at XC states.
The other runner you're referring to was Nick Williams, who was the Gatorade T&F Athlete of the Year for Maine in 2008. He won the state XC meet in the fall of 07 in 16:30 back when it was at Leavitt with their Hill of Death, and then during the outdoor season at the state meet competed in the 100, 200, 400, and 4x100 going 11.49 for 4th, 23.57 for 5th, 49.91 for 1st, anchoring his teams 4x1 to a 6th place finish. While Nick Williams was very talented, 4th/5th/1st/6th in events Maine is notoriously weak in, in the "middle" Class B division doesn't even deserve to be in the same discussion as Isaiah Harris' 4 state titles in the 16/2/8/4x4 at the Class A state meet his senior year, and the fact he was the only other recent male example that came to mind for you further shows how INfrequent something like this actually is.