High Schooler MATT BOLING 9.98

I am not sure who you are sprint geezer, but your technical comments are clueless. Not sure why are you so bitter. The kid is in sub 10 legal wind shape, great natural technique, almost no top level sprinter currently match it. Jolt it down

This kid is as good as anyone in the NCAA. It seems that there is some racism involved here. People can't believe that an 18 year old white kid can be this fast.

Older wiser wrote:

Maton turned 19 in April of his senior year. He broke 4 minutes and has never gone faster. It makes some difference or we wouldn’t have age groups in Usatf and AAU track.

....Ive heard it said that Mr Cole Sprout and Easton Allred should be seniors too.

True teller wrote:

I am not sure who you are sprint geezer, but your technical comments are clueless. Not sure why are you so bitter. The kid is in sub 10 legal wind shape, great natural technique, almost no top level sprinter currently match it. Jolt it down

You are either a complete idiot, or a troll. How many times do I have to say that he looks very promising, and that he looks technically sound. Is it bitter to constructively criticize someone while explicitly stating that they are excellent? WTF is the matter with you?

And just exactly how do you know that he is in sub-10 legal wind shape when the fastest he has ever gone has been 10.06 assuming max legal wind of +2.0 m/s and assuming linearity of the wind gauge in his +4.2 m/s effort? The answer: you don't. Correcting that "imperfect" start he had in this race doesn't get him there.

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And now on to someone interesting: Boling.

I haven't seen good vid of him, but based on these results there is little doubt that he will go wind-legal sub-10 at some point. Yes there are a few guys who maxxed-out around that age, but anecdotally, that is because they go off the rails after HS because their lives are a mess, and because they are insufficiently mature to successfully manage a transition out of HS--that, and because they get diverted into football. IDK about Boling, hopefully he will avoid such a disintegration of his track focus.

I don't see any 60m times listed for him, and I see that his 200m best is 20.55 from this year, with no wind reading given. Without a 60m and without good video and good wind-legal 100m results, it is difficult to tell what that 20.55 means. Naturally there are no good splits for him yet, so it is hard for bystanders like us to tell where his weaknesses lie--but at first glance, it looks to me like he is the whole package, without any particularly weak phase. This is true of most guys who are around 10-flat, of course--you don't get there with a glaring weakness unless you are super-world-class in another phase, like Lemaitre who had a super vmax, or Collins who had a super start and early acceleration.

If I am right and he has no glaring single weakness, that's good news, IMO, because guys with single weaknesses tend not to fix them, just like Lemaitre and Collins, or KBC, or Gittens, etc.. That would mean that it is just a matter of time and overall maturation for Boling, which is inevitable, if he stays injury-free, and if he keeps his nose clean. I do believe that guys can physically mature more, in a way that is beneficial to sprinting, after the age of 19. If you look at Coleman's progression, he was "only" 10.18 (+2.0) at age 19, then 9.95 (+1.7) at age 20, a HUGE jump. Both times were done in Eugene*, so there is some consistency...and the year after that, at age 21, he went 9.82 (+1.3), again in Eugene*.

I'm not saying that MB will equal CC's improvement, but the next 2 years will be huge years. I hope he stays injury-free.

Sprintgeezer's reference to him being converted to football maybe the biggest detriment to him going sub-10. Too much money in football, not enough in T&F unless you are the biggest of superstars. I wouldn't blame him for switching. Gotsta get paid yo!

Sprintgeezer wrote:

I don't see any 60m times listed for him, and I see that his 200m best is 20.55 from this year, with no wind reading given. Without a 60m and without good video and good wind-legal 100m results, it is difficult to tell what that 20.55 means. .

He also ran a 20.58 in March at the Texas Southern Relays with a headwind reading of minus .6

200 Meters High School - Finals x

1. 12 Matthew Boling 20.58a PR (-.6) Houston Strake Jesuit

2. 11 Robert Gregory 21.02a PR (-1.0) Houston Wheatley

3. 11 Corey Wren 21.62a PR (-.6) Curtis, John

The 400m was his focus last year. He ran a best of 46.15 and finished second at the state meet by one hundredth of a second, 46.75 to 46.76.

NFLSuck wrote:

Sprintgeezer's reference to him being converted to football maybe the biggest detriment to him going sub-10. Too much money in football, not enough in T&F unless you are the biggest of superstars. I wouldn't blame him for switching. Gotsta get paid yo!

Don't understand these weird references to football. Why would someone with great athleticism waste it on football? They could get paid even more money in baseball and soccer.

A white American Usain Bolt would easily become the richest track athlete in history.

As some have noted, his times really should be compared to college freshman achievements. Boling is older than Zion Williamson. (Yep.)

I've always said that the wind conversions understate the extra momentum gains. This was really only a 10.3/4 performance. Eddie Nketia is better.

Verified and true. He would still be one of the top guys in the NCAA.

Not everyone wants a complete loss of privacy due to being a TV celebrity. I wouldn't want to be a world star and not be able to relax and be left alone everywhere I go. Wouldn't even want to be as known as Rupp in whose case about 5% of the US population know about.

Another issue is that wind gauges tend to not read accurately once the wind gets that high.

That’s a decent 200, but it should be better. His numbers make him look like a 10.2 guy, we will have to see—but that would still be great. Consider that Degrasse was 10.15(+0.9) at 19, then improved HUGELY to 9.92(-0.5) at 20.

Big year coming.

Bill Belichick is definitely salivating over this kid hahahahah.

All jokes aside, this kid is going to be huge at Georgia for the next 4 years.

BigTex wrote:

He is also a bit inefficient with a slight backwards lean.

Could be the camera angle.

However you get away with that when you have a big tailwind. You could argue its the best position for a big tailwind - double the legal limit.

Go fast run wrote:

This kid is as good as anyone in the NCAA. It seems that there is some racism involved here. People can't believe that an 18 year old white kid can be this fast.

Stop it

He's good but very mature. Lets wait a little and see what he can run without a typhoon at his back

Coevett wrote:

A white American Usain Bolt would easily become the richest track athlete in history.

Ask Lemaitre

Subway Surfers wrote:

I've always said that the wind conversions understate the extra momentum gains. This was really only a 10.3/4 performance. Eddie Nketia is better.

converted to 10.16.

Not as good as a few others.

Especially others his age

crupe wrote:

Subway Surfers wrote:

I've always said that the wind conversions understate the extra momentum gains. This was really only a 10.3/4 performance. Eddie Nketia is better.

converted to 10.16.

Not as good as a few others.

Especially others his age

17 9.99A 4.0 Trayvon Bromell USA 10 Jul 95 Albuquerque NM 8 Jun 13

18 9.77 4.2 Trayvon Bromell USA 10 Jul 95 Lubbock TX 18 May 14

19 9.76 3.7 Trayvon Bromell USA 10 Jul 95 Eugene OR 26 Jun 15