Did Tauro and Smith run well at Michigan?
Did Tauro and Smith run well at Michigan?
Stillwater HS in Minnesota has had either 5 or 6 athletes go on to run 3:59 or faster in the mile (including Ben Blankenship)
baby blue. wrote:
Did Tauro and Smith run well at Michigan?
Tauro was a multi time all am on relays as was Smith (who was also the indoor runner up at 800).
It seems the one thing the internet and nationals have done is increase the pressure for teams to perform at much higher levels. Which means an increase in training. It used to be you wanted to be the best in your area or state, now that is not good enough.
Long term we will have to see what kind of impact this has on the collegiate and national level. How many guys in high school broke 4 before the internet, and how many since? How are those post internet sub 4 guys doing at the next level?
Context clues wrote:
Jesuit in Portland. /
There is no Jesuit in Portland. There is one in Beaverton.
One program where it actually does work is James Logan, Union City, CA. Some of their athletes include
Sprints: Kelli White (Tennessee) All-American and 2003 100m and 200m World Champion (later disqualified for steroids and blew the whistle on BALCO)
Middle Distance: Aaron Richburg (Auburn)1997 NCAA indoor runnerup at 800
Distance: Gilat and Yosef Gibray (Cal) All American in 5000m and 2012 Olympic Trials Qualifier in Marathon
110 Hurdles: Kevin Craddock (UCLA) and Ray Stewart (Cal) 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic Trials Qualifiers
400 Hurdles: Thandi Stewart, (Miami) 2012 NCAA 4th (also Hon. Mention All-American in the 800 in 2014)
Triple Jump: NCAA Champions Nkosinza Balumbu (Arkansas 2008) and Ciarra Brewer (Florida 2015)
No schools produce anything. It's more akin to nurturing naive talent.
Do they? wrote:
HardLoper wrote:The trend is your expectations are too high. The best NXN teams produce a much higher rate of top college runners than non NXN teams.
Or is that just your perception? Did you do a study?
My guess is it's pretty random but probably more burnout from the high mileage programs than others especially on the girls side. And yes, there are exceptions to every generalization.
You're wrong. It would be very easy to prove that a NXN competitor is more likely to be a college all-american than a non-NXN competitor.
HardLoper wrote:
Do they? wrote:Or is that just your perception? Did you do a study?
My guess is it's pretty random but probably more burnout from the high mileage programs than others especially on the girls side. And yes, there are exceptions to every generalization.
You're wrong. It would be very easy to prove that a NXN competitor is more likely to be a college all-american than a non-NXN competitor.
Ok. Let's see your study then. Of course, now you are claiming 'more likely' when before it was just 'produce' as in they actually DO... see the difference?
As I said above, my guess is it's probably pretty random and that's what I'll stick with.
Crude Sader wrote:
Context clues wrote:Jesuit in Portland. /
There is no Jesuit in Portland. There is one in Beaverton.
And (while a good HS team without a doubt) who among them actually goes on to be any "good" in college?
I was about to post that until I saw this. Runnersworld did a nice piece on them a few years back .
http://www.runnersworld.com/high-school/the-stillwater-system