What percentage of NCAA XC runners can windmill dunk?

semi_pro wrote:

I'm kinda surprised by these responses. I'm 5'10" and was a 4:06 1500 runner (not that impressive) in college and I could easily grab the rim and could dunk with a volleyball (couldn't palm a basketball). I'd think there would be more folks out there who were a lot more talented than I was. I don't think I was that unusual.

There are outliers at both ends. If you have a monster hops and lose 6", you might still have enouhh. Or if your arms are 3" longer than normal?. Dunking is hard cause most people under 6'2 dont have big enough hands for any one handed dunk. That is as big of factor as hops as anyone who has tried trampoline dunking can tell you

Well, one either can or cannot windmill dunk. So 50%

10/10 Excellent statistical analysis. As for the one female athlete? It's Allie O. Seen it for myself

hillybilly wrote:

10/10 Excellent statistical analysis. As for the one female athlete? It's Allie O. Seen it for myself

Dude, nice try. She's 5'1". No freakin' way. Troll elsewhere.

D2 6'2"

I could dunk 2-handed in highschool/college but was pretty bad at cross and only ran a couple of years of mid distance track in college back in the low mileage 90's.

Used to wonder how much faster I would have been if i had run more than about 35 miles a week a few months year. But honestly, dunking in pick up games was more fun than anything I ever did running. Being kinda good at basketball was more fun than being kinda good at running. If i had real talent and was actually winning races, then probably a different story.

I went to my HS alumni basketball game last night and dropped 20 pts on those bums, hadnt touched a basketball since last year's alumni game. Some runners are just natural athletes, some arent

Harambe wrote:

I couldn't jump and then I started running 70 mpw and I can jump even less now.

There's NO WAY unless it's an 800 guy on the roster

I've been coaching high school for 24 years and have had exactly 2 athletes who had the athleticism to actually dunk.

Athlete #1 had incredible hops and power, but was a total disaster at ball sports, couldn't care less for them. Probably could have rushed for 1500 yards a year as a tail back but just really liked running. Ended up as an all american 800m guy in the NCAA. Could not dunk due to lack of skill.

Athlete #2 6'3 kid, lanky, played football and basketball, pretty good athlete. Ran cross country one season but wasn't very good. He could dunk if un-defended, but I don't think he ever dunked in a game. Was not NCAA D1 cross material.

Most of my boys can touch somewhere around half way up the net. Some of them can touch rim.

How hi is a basket

The 1 percent wrote:

I would guess about 80% of the runners over 6 feet could touch the rim, 20% could dunk a tennis ball, 2% a volleyball and 1% a basketball.

Lol it’s way more than 1%. Here’s a video of me dunking last year (quite out of shape at age 34, you should have seen me throw it down when I was in college and sub-15 shape). It’s not tough for someone over 6 feet and relatively athletic like serious runners should be.

I couldn’t have windmill dunked though, you need to have really big hands for that.