What is the highest number of athlete from one school entered in an event at Regionals (same year)?

The regionals have not been run in years.

coach d. wrote:

The regionals have not been run in years.

Don't be an azz. Most be people use regionals and prelims interchangeably. We all know what he means.

Stanford went 1-2-3 at NCAA’s two years in a row.

Didn't have to look back too far to find more than 9, in the same event even, the Pac-12 has em beat with 11 entries in 2017.

I knew before clicking on the thread that it would be a BYU fanboy stroking their results. What do I win?

The Pac-12 is a school? What school had more than 9?

nofacetimber wrote:

Didn't have to look back too far to find more than 9, in the same event even, the Pac-12 has em beat with 11 entries in 2017.

That is 11 entries from a conference of 12 schools. Not that impressive.

Before BYU this year I had seen 4 athletes from one team in distance and throwing events on multiple occasions, but can not think of a time where I noticed any more than that. Have not really kept track though.

Sliding Scale wrote:

Before BYU this year I had seen 4 athletes from one team in distance and throwing events on multiple occasions, but can not think of a time where I noticed any more than that. Have not really kept track though.

Last year there was a team with 8 athletes in one event. Might have been the same team that qualified 10 and has 9 running this year though.

I’m confident the answer is Lipscomb University .

No way jose wrote:

Stanford went 1-2-3 at NCAA’s two years in a row.

This is more impressive than having 9 out of 48 in a regional.

More impressive wrote:

No way jose wrote:

Stanford went 1-2-3 at NCAA’s two years in a row.

This is more impressive than having 9 out of 48 in a regional.

Cool story, but no one insinuated that 9 out of 48 was more impressive than a 1,2,3 finish two years in a row. The discussion was about if 9 athletes from one school in an event was a record for a regional.

But since you brought it up..

I thought I would check the accolades of said Stanford athletes coming out of high school by doing some research online.

1. Brad Hauser

Brad was the Foot Locker Cross Country finalist 1992-94, was top eight all three years, and won it his junior and senior year. He also qualified for the national track meet and eventually placed fourth in the nation during high school.

1st place - Reebok/ USA Junior Crosscountry Championships 1995

2. Brent Howser

A two-time Foot Locker Cross Country finalist as a prep

2nd place - Reebok/ USA Junior Crosscountry Championships 1995

3. Nathan Nutter

Nathan has been a Varsity Cross Country and Track athlete at Corona del Sol since 1992. He is not new to All-City Banquets, having been selected to the All-City Track Team and Cross Country teams in 1993 and 1994. Nathan was the State Champion this past fall in Cross Country. During the 1993 track season, Nathan was ranked 10th in the nation in the 3200 meters. He is currently ranked 1st in the nation in the 3200 meters with the time of 8:54. This is the fastest time recorded by a prepster in the past two years.

Nutter was a four–time cross country and track state champion. He was honored as Tempe All City and Gatorade Arizona Athlete of the Year for the school year of 1993-1994.

4. Jason Balkman

In 1992, Lynbrook saw its first State Champion when Sophomore

Jason Balkman won the Division III state title at Fresno's Woodward Park.

Balkman came back in '94 to win the State Championship in Division I with

the fastest time of the day over the same Woodward Park course. That year,

Balkman also won the Foot Locker Western Regional Championship and was

favored to win the National Championship title but was unable to attend

due to a previously scheduled commitment. Balkman still holds three

course records on the St. Francis/Foothill JC course, and all four school

records on the Crystal Springs course (14:54 best), as well as the track

school record in the 2 mile.

Stanfords recruiting was "impressive" yes. I suppose the development of these guys was impressive as well. And getting all three of them to put it together at nationals two years in a row is another impressive feat for the program. Who knows in 1999 if Brad Hauser hadn't opted out of the 10k to focus solely on the 5k they might have gone 1-2-3-4.

That said 3 of these guys were probably in the top 3 distant recruits nationally in their classes. With the 4th in the top 5 or 10. It's not like they came out of nowhere, they were dominating on the national stage in high school.

Compare that to what BYU has accomplished with these 9 athletes. A good portion local talents, most of which flew under the radar in high school, rarely making any top 25 distance class recruiting lists nationally. Now making it onto the national stage in collegiate athletics with international athletes despite the predictions and rankings of pundits in high school.

I'd say that's quite impressive and nothing to scoff at.

It's quite telling that it takes bringing up a feat as impressive as Stanfords in order to try to discredit the accomplishment of getting 9 athletes in the 10k at regionals.

The highest number of athlete is 1. Any more and it's athletes.

It's probably also the lowest. You have zero athletes, -2 athletes, so forth. The question is do you say -1 athlete, or -1 athletes? Jury's out on that. There may be no precedent for people speaking of negative numbers of athletes.