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.
10 years apart and very different situations.
But ironically, they went to neighboring High Schools. Lakota East and Mason.
Probably grew up less than 5 miles away from each other.
Emma Wilson from Indiana, she had some great times in high school, went to U of Illinois, then Huntington, then showed up on UIndy roster last year and never raced and no where this year.
Speaking of Indian HS stars, whatever happened to Austin Mudd?
Brian Grosso should be mentioned. Kinney champ in '88, making fools out of a solid field that year.
9:00ish on the track in a state with about a 5 week track season and no post season. Record holder until someone named Ritzenhien came along.
After HS... no one knows.
He did not even win the MW regional that year. Went to U of Arizona.
There is no point in winning regionals. Once you lock up a place you just cruise it in and save it for the race that matters. My memory he was decent his first couple years (right around the all American line) and then disappeared.
He did not even win the MW regional that year. Went to U of Arizona.
There is no point in winning regionals. Once you lock up a place you just cruise it in and save it for the race that matters. My memory he was decent his first couple years (right around the all American line) and then disappeared.
If your team is good enough to make it but not a lock team-wise, the favorite needs to try to get the one-point
There is no point in winning regionals. Once you lock up a place you just cruise it in and save it for the race that matters. My memory he was decent his first couple years (right around the all American line) and then disappeared.
If your team is good enough to make it but not a lock team-wise, the favorite needs to try to get the one-point
I am willing to bet his team wasn't going to qualify for Kinny/footlocker....
You have it right Dutch. There is no other explanation for Milani's island of good times in a sea of ordinary. Her changed physical appearance merely confirms the obvious. Wonder if Iowa will ever have the courage to right the record books.
