Buttstuff wrote:
A few Canadians. Mike Woods, Matt Leeder, Greg Anderson.
Mike Woods is a professional cyclist, finishing 3rd in the world champs, 5th in the Olympics, and several good results in hilly monuments. He's even won some stages of the Vuelta a Espana.
There are many wrote:
Pete Meindl came to mind; ran in high school with my sons. Although, checking his stats now, I see he actually had some impressive successes for a couple years in college:
Peter Meindl, Stanford:
2002 Cross Country Season (Freshman): Was the only freshman to compete for Stanford at the NCAA Championships ... First team All Pac-10 selection ... Had a pair of impressive ninth place finishes at the Pac-10 Championships and Pre-NCAA Meet Blue race.
2003 Cross Country Season: Redshirted.
2003 Track & Field Season: Redshirted ... Finished third in the 5000 meters at the U.S. Junior National Championships ... Competed for Team USA at the Junior Pan Am Games in Barbados and finished fifth in the 5000 meters.
2004 Track & Field Season: Ran personal bests and NCAA indoor provisional qualifying times of 8:01.07 in the 3000 meters and 13:58.49 in the 5000 meters ... Did not compete outdoors ...
High School: A two-time cross country state champion in New York at Orchard Park High School ... Also earned All-American honors as a senior ... Twice a finalist in the Footlocker National Championships, finishing eighth as a senior ... Participated twice in the Junior Nationals.
I remember Pete! He was like a rock star in high school. LOL
At states his senior year girls had signs for him!!
Dustin Horter was a big bust wrote:
2018 graduate Dustin Horter
He was the Brooks mile champion, won NXN Midwest XC, top 10 at NXN Nationals, and won multiple other national indoor and outdoor track meets. He ran on a US junior team that ran a XC meet in Scotland.
He was a huge bust in college. Never qualified for the regional meet in track and usually finished at the back in regional NCAA XC meets. He’s basically an average D3 runner now.
Agree on Horter. He was one of the bigger busts in recent memory. He was better his senior year of high school than he was his senior year of college. Each year in college he got a bit slower. To clarify, he is at DI Indiana and not a D3 school. I think what you mean is that if he ran D3 he would be about average and that is probably correct.
Another Ohio runner that never really was better after high school was Zach Wills. He ran about 10ish years before Horter and was the state XC champ 3 of his 4 HS years. Wills had a lot of injury issues at Oklahoma State and I believe he may have only run a few years. He had a few good races but never really got going due to injuries. Horter just never improved and didn't have injury issues like Wills did. His problems from what I have heard were just due to a lack of effort and reaching his peak and limits of his capabilities at an early age.
kartelite wrote:
Yong-Sung Leal
Did he even go to college out of high school?
Jantzen Oshier is another if he hasn't been mentioned.
Carter Cheeseman and Colin Baker. Wondering what happened to them.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Liam Anderson? And honestly most elite highschoolers? I lookup kids who I ran at footlocker with and sometimes they haven't ran since their freshman year of college. Depressing.
Officialdb wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Liam Anderson? And honestly most elite highschoolers? I lookup kids who I ran at footlocker with and sometimes they haven't ran since their freshman year of college. Depressing.
Liam ran at regionals last fall. Was Stanford’s last runner. did not run at Nationals. No track results
wheres aidan troutner? he won nxn
aidan troutner won nxn over the favorite brody hasty, that was a story i remember other than the sophomore tuohy dominating the field
wqe23 wrote:
wheres aidan troutner? he won nxn
He’s doing fine it looks like
Officialdb wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Liam Anderson? And honestly most elite highschoolers? I lookup kids who I ran at footlocker with and sometimes they haven't ran since their freshman year of college. Depressing.
Ryan Oosting too. He also beat Charles Hicks at NXN and his career after college was sporadic. If Liam and Ryan were still at Hicks’ level then Stanford would have maybe had a chance to take down NAU.
Carlos Shultz - top finisher for Loudoun Valley in 2018/2019 at NXN and have seen nothing on him since college freshman year.
I don’t think he runs anymore
Katie Flood
multiple state champion from the same school as Schweizer, went on to Washington and then won one NCAA title in the mile and then seemed to fall off .. no real injuries, but just never performed??
Former Iowa Great wrote:
I agree. She is the best high school runner of all time. She is barely off of knee surgery and still finished as the top freshmen. Imagine what she would have done if healthy. Nobody is touching her next year. Mark my words.
words are marked.....5000 m champ
CasualRunnerHobbit wrote:
Marlee Starliper is on that path so far; hopefully things turn around from her. Haven't heard anything of what's going on with her at NC State
15:36 in the 5K on the track last spring. Not too shabby
Amber Trotter, Natasha Roetter
Whatever happened to Leo Daschbach?
xuicoatl wrote:
Whatever happened to Leo Daschbach?
Franklin Sanchez
adrizek Mohammed
Victor gras
Chris Barnicle…this one I would have kicked off the team personally cause he is an idiot
I saw him run at Miaa states one year amazing talent squandered with pot smoking dope head idiot
his running the oly trials high was a slap to the face of every person who supports the sport, people who didn’t make the trials
idiot wasted talent
no wonder he flushed out of Arkansas
Natasha roetter crazy hot!
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
I’m a D2 female runner. Our coach explicitly told us not to visit LetsRun forums.
Guys between age of 45 and 55 do you think about death or does it seem far away
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