Tyson Gay's daugther was a 12.15 sprinter as a Sophomore.

12.15 to sub-11 is a pretty big drop...

scorpion_runner wrote:

That is pretty impressive. She probably would have gotten down to Sub 12 by her senior year, and then closing in on sub 11 in the middle of college.

She was the top 200 meter sprinter in her region and came in 4th in the 100 in the State Championships....She had elite DNA.

She could have been the future for the USA to knock off the Jamaicans. ...a terrible, terrible loss.

Let her rest in peace

bigtool05 wrote:

12.15 to sub-11 is a pretty big drop...

We are talking in the next 4-5 years ....E. Thompson went from 11:15 to 10:80 in 2 years!

She was a HS sophomore running 12:15...You don't think in the next 5 years or so she would have gotten close to running sub 11?

scorpion_runner wrote:

bigtool05 wrote:

12.15 to sub-11 is a pretty big drop...

We are talking in the next 4-5 years ....E. Thompson went from 11:15 to 10:80 in 2 years!

She was a HS sophomore running 12:15...You don't think in the next 5 years or so she would have gotten close to running sub 11?

Heck no. She was ranked #53 among high school freshman on athletic.net. Sub-11 is world class.

scorpion_runner wrote:

bigtool05 wrote:

12.15 to sub-11 is a pretty big drop...

We are talking in the next 4-5 years ....E. Thompson went from 11:15 to 10:80 in 2 years!

She was a HS sophomore running 12:15...You don't think in the next 5 years or so she would have gotten close to running sub 11?

I coached a girl to 12.30 in 8th grade in club track(she ran 12.8 with previous coach in 7th grade). She just graduated high school this year with a 12.18 pr (I don't coach at her high school).

I had another girl who ran 12.5 as a frosh, graduated this year as well with a 12.3 pr (I do coach at her high school).

Point is that some girls mature early. You can't make predictions. Recognize talent and train it accordingly, but there are no guarantees, especially with sprinters, and especially with female sprinters.

For what it is worth, Tyson Gay was a very solid hs sprinter, but not a phenom. He had a fairly steady progression through college and a few years post collegiate.

Her death is a loss, regardless of whether we can know her sprinting potential.

HardLoper wrote:

scorpion_runner wrote:

We are talking in the next 4-5 years ....E. Thompson went from 11:15 to 10:80 in 2 years!

She was a HS sophomore running 12:15...You don't think in the next 5 years or so she would have gotten close to running sub 11?

Heck no. She was ranked #53 among high school freshman on athletic.net. Sub-11 is world class.

I said running close to sub 11....like getting to around 11.05 or even 11.10 after progressing through HS and College....You don't think her 100 meter top end speed would have continued to evolve, considering she was the top 200 meter runner in her region? She won the 200 meter regional championship...just curious.

scorpion_runner wrote:

HardLoper wrote:

Heck no. She was ranked #53 among high school freshman on athletic.net. Sub-11 is world class.

I said running close to sub 11....like getting to around 11.05 or even 11.10 after progressing through HS and College....You don't think her 100 meter top end speed would have continued to evolve, considering she was the top 200 meter runner in her region? She won the 200 meter regional championship...just curious.

No. Girls don't usually improve that much. A large fraction of girls her age don't even improve at all.

Such a sweet-looking little girl:

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000560648278/95aa6d2608d4f88c3c85af8dc51aa44c.jpeg

Heartbreaking.

It's good to appreciate her achievements on the track, but the loss would be no less terrible if she was a 15 second sprinter. In the same way that pretty much all of us on here that didn't know her, don't know all the little things that undoubtedly made her a beautiful person. I hope the people that do remember those things, her family and friends, are able to use those memories as a source of comfort as they make their way through the uncomfortable process of grief.