Was reading another post when I became curious; who are some current collegiate athletes (in cross country as well as track and field) who are the children of former professional runners?
Was reading another post when I became curious; who are some current collegiate athletes (in cross country as well as track and field) who are the children of former professional runners?
Joe Klecker, Minnesota native, runs for Colorado now. Parents were both world class runners. He seems to be really talented, as well. 6th in the PAC12 5k this year as a freshman. Ran 13:44.
Was an 4:02 miler in high school, also carries an 8:52 two mile PR as well.
D1onStreetD3inSheets wrote:
Was reading another post when I became curious; who are some current collegiate athletes (in cross country as well as track and field) who are the children of former professional runners?
That Van Halen Kid?
This will get you started
Katrina Coogan
Katie Rainsberger
The Aragon girls
Centro Jr and Lauren (ret?)
Shelby Houlihan
Matons
Drew Hunter
Olin Hacker
John (Johnny Gregorek)
Shalane Flanagan (okay she's not in college but her parents were elite runnners back in the day)
Add McKayla Fricker (graduated) and Drew Hunter (dad was 13:3x). A few years back there was Freddy Ovett and of course his half-brother Yuri Borzakovskiy lol
Observertran wrote:
This will get you started
Katrina Coogan
Katie Rainsberger
The Aragon girls
Centro Jr and Lauren (ret?)
Shelby Houlihan
Matons
Drew Hunter
Olin Hacker
John (Johnny Gregorek)
Shalane Flanagan (okay she's not in college but her parents were elite runnners back in the day)
Tom Ratcliffe - heading to Stanford
Annika Gompers - currently at Harvard
Eliza Dekker - Dartmouth
Piper and Ella Donaghu's father Michael was a solid runner for some small NE school back in the day... Dartmouth maybe?
Addison DeHaven - dad Rod was pro marathoner and rep'd US at Olympics in 2000.
Cruz Culpepper seems to be heading toward greatness as he enters high school. Tennis and running for this kid, with a greater focus on tennis. But a 4:37 1500m at 13 years old last summer shows some real talent.
Parents Alan and Shalane both US distance Olympians.
Who were Shelby Houlihan's parents?
Myles Marshall's (rising sophomore at Harvard) dad was an Olympian at 800m in 1984 and ran 1:43.92 and his mom ran at the Trials four times with a PR of 2:00.81.
Chipper Squipps wrote:
Addison DeHaven - dad Rod was pro marathoner and rep'd US at Olympics in 2000.
Cruz Culpepper seems to be heading toward greatness as he enters high school. Tennis and running for this kid, with a greater focus on tennis. But a 4:37 1500m at 13 years old last summer shows some real talent.
Parents Alan and Shalane both US distance Olympians.
Shayne is his wife's name. Not Shalane.
Ahmed Bile
Alyssa Rudawski - NC State - daughter of Vicki Huber-Rudawski
Never ceases to amaze me how difficult it is for the LRC crowd to answer a simple question. Seeing responses about parents who weren't pros and kids who aren't in college yet (or no longer in college) makes me wonder why people can't stay on point.
Marcelo and caterina rocha- dad was 28 low guy at BC in mid 80's and mom Gina was also very fast 3k-5k type at BC. Caterina at providence and Marcelo is a top mass high schooler
NB running big wig Tom carleo has. A son nick who runs at PC as well and was a mass state champ. Tom was a 3:40 type guy. Ran at umass/ bc
Look at the little ballerina, so "on point" with her little @ss puckered accordingly....
Stay On Point wrote:
Never ceases to amaze me how difficult it is for the LRC crowd to answer a simple question. Seeing responses about parents who weren't pros and kids who aren't in college yet (or no longer in college) makes me wonder why people can't stay on point.
Valerie Reina
Keep an eye on Josh Schumacher.
Joanie and Paula Webb
Colt Goucher
The Rupp progeny