This is earth breaking news that kids can get better at a sport if they start practicing at a younger age. Organized baseball starts at 6 or 7. Football the same in some areas. Basketball is now organized in my little school to play other schools in 5th grade for both boys and girls. Gymnasts start at 3 to 4 years old. Soccer starts at 5 or 6. Swimming has a national meet that has standards for 10 year olds.
And yet people think it is terrible to start training to be a runner at 13 or 14 years old?
My little school in the Midwest has a junior high program for both boys and girls and we have about 80 total kids in each class. (1/11th the size of Great Oak)
Is this guy saying that the runners he gets have NEVER been on a cross country or track team until they get to high school? That seems hard to believe in California since Jordan Hasay was setting national and world records when she was in high school.