Ayden Owens: The Next Ashton Eaton? Freshman breaks records with 8130 decathlon

Ayden Owens, freshman at USC, just popped an 8,130 WL decathlon at the Bryan Clay Invitational. It's an US U-20 WR, and a #3 all-time.

If that name sounds familiar - probably mostly to people in PA - he's the kid that last year won the PIAA meet all by himself for North Allegheny.

You don't score 8100 points without a coach. The coach who recruited him obviously had an amazing eye!! But it takes an amazing coach to get someone to 8100 points as a freshman. Don't believe me?? Ask all these Decathlon guru coaches out here who do coach the multi's. You don't stumble upon that kind of performance. You have to be coached to that. May not be someone you recognize, but got to be sure he's getting coached. Give the kid credit and just keep the posts about him.

He's got a great outlook other than, well, being at USC

Mad respect that he ran 4:28 after four events in the 900's (two, 100 and hurdles pushing 1000) I mean 10:43, 47.61, 4:28...C'MON!

I didn't say, "He's not being coached." He has event coaches, he does not have a multi coach.

Decs/Heps do best with a true multi coach. Event coaches are less skilled in how to teach beginners (freshmen multi eventers are often winging some of the events, or learned particularly bad technique in some events from high school coaches who were clueless in all areas but, say distance). Event coaches are used to throwers who have 5 throws practices per week with weight training weaved into that schedule, while the jumps coaches are used the the same thing for their jumpers, the pole vault coach has an every-other day jump and lift schedule for vaulters, and the sprints and hurdles coaches have their own competing plan for drills and weights. Multi event coaches know how to teach 10 events one day per week or one day every other week, with maximum efficiency, no over-training with a hundred repeats, and a healthy focus on timing. Sprinters, jumpers, and throwers train right through a season, but multi-eventers (especially decathletes) need to peak to qualify and recover and peak again for nationals like marathoners do for the Olympics. Decathlons and heptathlons, being two day events, don't happen every weekend, so that figures in, too, in terms of getting a qualifying mark and then training for nationals.

USC definitely knows what they are doing when it comes to coaching him in the sprints and hurdles.

With respect to recruiting him, no one had to have an amazing eye to find Owens, he was the #1 decathlete in the nation coming out of high school.

Anyway, Owens looks to be on track for winning nationals for a few years, and the Olympics, so dedicating a true multi coach would make a little sense, see what I mean?

It won't be difficult becoming a better thrower than Eaton.

That is the most insane explanation ever typed on these message boards. It’s obvious his coach has taught the guy how to manage 10 events. You don’t run 4:28, sub 48 in the 400 and 10.45 without correctly managing training. His marks indicate a well rounded athlete and to do those numbers as a freshman, that HARD TO get someone to do! Multi-event coach??? Maybe these coaches need to learn to manage the event from his current coaxh. Obviously he’s done better than the rest of those, that you’re alluding to. He does have the best Performance of all time for US-u20 decathletes ever! Again, you don’t accidentally stumble upon 8100 pts. That takes planning and looks like he has quietly got the best multi’s Coach out there (for him). And by the way, his hurdle time wasn’t that fast. He had pretty well rounded performances.

the truth teller feller wrote:

Ayden Owens, freshman at USC, just popped an 8,130 WL decathlon at the Bryan Clay Invitational. It's an US U-20 WR, and a #3 all-time.

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What is a "US U-20 WR" ?

That looks like a United States Under-20 World Record.

But what does that mean?

So in his decathlon he had PRs in:

100m 10.43 (old 10.67)

LJ 7.53 (old 7.09)

400m 47.66 (old 48.94)

110H 13.91 (old 14.00)

DT 43.14 (old 42.72 with 1.75kg)

PV 4.60 (old 4.56i)

JT 51.21 (old 43.79)

1500m 4:28.9 (old 4:44.7)

He fell short in the HJ 1.90 vs 1.93 and SP 13.41 vs 13.79i

That was quite a performance

Can't believe more people aren't talking about this. Instead they're probably talking about some D3 nobody running a 3:55 1500 or arguing in a troll thread about partial scholarships

This is also a USA U-20 record. Like PVer Mondo Duplantis who competes for Sweden who holds US Records. Ayden competed only once for Puerto Rico

I sound dumb? lol Did you talk with Owens at the meet? lol Ask him yourself, “no multi event coach.” Somebody is giving him advice , lots of somebodies. You do realize Oregon hired Harry Mara specifically to coach Ashton to the Olympic medal stand? One coach for two multi event athletes. Harry continued to be his (their) private coach 24/7 after college up through the Olympics.

see on

www.trackandfieldnews.com

describes his USC coaching

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Straight outta the U of North Allegheny. Already a legend

big HONKING birds wrote:

Straight outta the U of North Allegheny. Already a legend

What's the deal with that school? I follow high school sports somewhat closely (I'm from the Eastern part of the state) and it seems like they win like 4-5 state titles a year across the different sports. They've gotta have the most in the state by 2 or 3x by now.