LV had an incredible senior year of track (3:59, 8:29 & many of the performances mentioned above) and then continued competing through the summer to become a junior triathlon world champion. This has been discussed on the boards before and the consensus was that he probably shouldn't have been competing at all that fall and Oregon could have handled him a lot more responsibly as a developing talent. Having recently tasted success in the tri, falling short of his previous dominant performances in his first races and being immature led to his departure. Had he stuck around & been trained appropriately there is no way you can say he wouldn't have been near or at the front of the NCAA pack simply based on his HS times. Nevertheless, post-HS times have no impact on whether he was the best HS runner. Also, to the other poster +1 for the Brownlee reference. Haha.