Mercer County = Best County in America?

Mercer County, Ohio?

No. Mercer County, NJ

You were kinda stretching at the end with a 4:22 guy and a 6'4" high jumper but those are very impressive times for one county. However, there's a good chance there's a couple counties in California that can beat that...in their glory years Great Oak could nearly match those distance times by themselves (and they would crush them at the top end with multiple sub-4:10 and sub-1:52 guys).

Yeah. The 4:22 guy, now that I'm looking at his profile, is more of a longer distance (3200, 5k) type of guy.

He runs 8:46 in the 3k and 9:11 in the 3200.

And about Great Oak, I'm looking at their times and they are amazing.

In sprinting, I agree, there are multiple counties in the STATE which are better than Mercer.

However, I can't really think of any counties in California better than Mercer in the distance sector.

Could you give examples?

California doesn't organize by county so it's hard to tell. Riverside County has Great Oak, Vista Murrieta, Eleanor Roosevelt, Murrieta Mesa, and MLK Jr that have all produced some phenomenal teams in the past couple years. I am only going to include sub-1:56, sub-4:20, and sub-9:20 but there are plenty of runners close to those times. In 2018 there was:

Carlos Carvajal - 9:05 3200 and 4:13 1600

Tyler Tickner - 9:15 3200 and 4:19 1600

Gabriel Abbes - 9:16 3200

Gavin Korby - 9:18 3200 and 4:15 1600

Chris Verdugo - 4:17 1600

Edgard Villa - 9:14 3200 and 4:14 1600

Willie Coleman - 1:54 800

Jared Angle - 1:55 800

Raymon Ornelas - 9:08 3200 and 4:15 1600

Jackson Taylor - 1:53 800

All of this in one year, many of these runners not being seniors. However, considering right now is kind of a glory year for Mercer County, we might as well compare to 2016, which was Riverside County's glory year. That year, there was:

Tyler Janes - 8:56 3200 and 4:04 1600

Andrew Boebinger - 4:16 1600 and 1:55 800

Michael Norman (only sprinter I'm including) - 10.27, 20.06, and 45.51...now runs 43.4

Raymon Ornelas - 9:08 3200 (only a sophomore at the time)

Isaac Cortes - 1:50 800, 4:04 1600, 9:00 3200

Spencer Dodds - 1:54 800, 4:05 1600, 8:55 3200

Cole Spencer - 4:08 1600, 8:51 3200

Solomon Fountain - 1:55 800, 4:10 1600, 9:19 3200

Nelson Quintana - 1:50 800, 4:16 1600

Tony Robinson - 4:18 1600, 9:18 3200

Ryan Jones - 4:19 1600

Carlos Carvajal - 9:16 3200 (only a sophomore)

Amazingly, every person from Isaac Cortes on was from Great Oak. Anytime a Loudoun Valley fanboy comes on here, direct them to this list...and then tell them that Great Oak is not even the greatest high school distance team of all-time (that honor, imo, belongs to 2017 American Fork).

It should also be noted that I am only looking at a few select schools, because I don't know every school in Riverside County and frankly can't be bothered to look them up. I am sure there are other runners at this level that I missed. The point is that Mercer County is excellent, especially in 2018, but there are other counties with a similar density of high quality runners across the country (I won't give any proof of this but I'm pretty sure there are a bunch of really good teams in a small area near The Woodlands, Texas that have put together these kind of numbers as well).

New cc runner wrote:

Mercer County, Ohio?

Mercer, County West Virginia?

Best meth in the nation, watch em run.

8 sub 4:15 milers in the same county? I remember when there weren't 8 in the state.

*Never said sub-milers, these boys are all sub-15 1600 runners

Here are the links to their milesplits(I know that some of these people graduated, but even the people who haven't graduated yet ran these times in the spring of 2018)

All of these times were run OUTDOORS

Teddy Meredith -

https://nj.milesplit.com/athletes/pro/4755588/stats

Atharv Kulkarni -

https://nj.milesplit.com/athletes/pro/4654992/stats

Malual Mu -

https://nj.milesplit.com/athletes/pro/4654617/stats

Sameer Das -

https://nj.milesplit.com/athletes/pro/6195656/stats

Tim Dolan -

https://nj.milesplit.com/athletes/pro/4877455/stats

Sean Dolan -

https://nj.milesplit.com/athletes/pro/5792688/stats

Adhwin Sridhar -

https://nj.milesplit.com/athletes/pro/5694482/stats

Luke Johnson -

https://nj.milesplit.com/athletes/pro/6645156/stats

Everyone knows Morris County is the best because they had Joey Defeo from Delbarton

Mercer County is Indeed the Best wrote:

Teddy Meredith - Runs 1600m in 4:14

Liam Murphy - Runs 3200m in 8:54 INDOORS and 15:38 in the 5k

Atharv Kulkarni - Runs 800m in 1:52 and 1600m in 4:12

Malual Mu - Runs 1600m in 4:14 and 800m in 1:52

Sameer Das - Runs 1600m in 4:13, 3200 in 9:09, and 5k in 15:39

Tim Dolan - Runs 1600m in 4:15

Sean Dolan - Runs 800 in 1:50 and 1600 in 4:12 (and a mile in 4:08)

Adhwin Sridhar - Runs 1600 in 4:15

Will Hare - 5k in 15:39

Vedang Lad - 1600 in 4:22 and 5k in 15:44

A'Nan Bridgett - High Jumps 6'7" and Long Jumps 24'

Luke Johnson - 800 in 1:55 and 1600 in 4:15....he ran these times as a SOPHMORE

George Battle IV - 100m in 10.97....as a FRESHMAN

Nils Wildberg - 23'4.5" for long jump and 200m in 21.93

Christian O'Neal - High Jump in 6'4"

Louis Apkagado - 10.75 as a SOPHMORE

Teddy Meredith - Pretty sure he quit running.

Liam Murphy - Great runner but fluke. Former soccer player

Atharv Kulkarni - Meh

Malual Mu - No good at xc

Sameer Das - WPP, decent track, not so great xc

Tim Dolan - Dad coaches at Penn, previously Princeton

Sean Dolan - Dad coaches at Penn, previously Princeton

Adhwin Sridhar - uh, and?

Will Hare - CBA recruited

Vedang Lad - WPP decent track but nothing in xc

A'Nan Bridgett - who cares, not a runner

Luke Johnson - CBA recruited

George Battle IV - sprinter so nobody cares

You need to look at Morris County. That's where the real talent is. Will be interesting to see if the partying lifestyle keeps up. Maybe they'll all turn out to be Joey Defeos.

Foolz wrote:

Everyone knows Morris County is the best because they had Joey Defeo from Delbarton

Mark my words: by the end of his career, DeFeo will be on the top-5 all-time distance runner list:

1. K. Bekele

2. Hicham El Gerrouj

3. Eliud Kipchoge

4. Haile G.

5. Joey Defeo

So many questions...

What does WPP stand for?

How does being a former soccer player affect anything?

How does having a dad coaching @Penn affect anything? They are both still phenomenal runners

And if by "CBA recruited" you mean recruited BY CBA, that's cool? They still run in Mercer County....

Are jumpers not a part of track?

If there's a guy who runs 9.7 in the 100, are you going to say, "He's not a good runner because he runs a 6-minute mile"?

And no one cares about sprinting?

If you ask 100 people on the street to name a track athlete I bet at least 85 of them will say, "Usain Bolt"

And instead of looking at "Oh he's good at x but bad at y", just look at what they're good at. That's the point I'm trying to make.

Not even Joey wrote:

Foolz wrote:

Everyone knows Morris County is the best because they had Joey Defeo from Delbarton

Mark my words: by the end of his career, DeFeo will be on the top-5 all-time distance runner list:

1. K. Bekele

2. Hicham El Gerrouj

3. Eliud Kipchoge

4. Haile G.

5. Joey Defeo

Put Mr Joey at the top. Mercer is the best though

- Luke Johnsons and Will Hare were NOT CBA recruited

- What does the Dolan's dad coaching @Penn have to do with anything

- What does being a former soccer player have to do with anything

- The "meh" runner has put up extraordinary times

- "who cares, not a runner"...he ended up competing in the Pan-American Championships

- Malual Mu is no good in XC b/c track was his main sport

- Both the "WPP"'s finished top 10 in the state in XC