HS jr Nico Young runs 8:47 at Cali state meet, destroys NXN champ Liam Anderson by 6 seconds

Note that Strangio and Anderson both doubled back from 1600 (4:08 and the win for Strangio, 4:10 for Anderson). Nico Young is a tremendous talent, and I agree that he may challenge a German Fernandez record next year, but Strangio’s potential is also very exciting.

GermanMissile wrote:

Note that Strangio and Anderson both doubled back from 1600 (4:08 and the win for Strangio, 4:10 for Anderson). Nico Young is a tremendous talent, and I agree that he may challenge a German Fernandez record next year, but Strangio’s potential is also very exciting.

Yes I thought about mentioning the doubles by Strangio and Anderson but I didn’t want to get too long winded in the initial post. Strangio is a crazy talent that has been overshadowed by Young this year, but let’s remember that he was the one winning the 3200 at state last year, AS A SOPHOMORE.

Throw in sophomore Collin Peattie doubling in 4:09 and 9:09 today, and next year looks very promising for California.

Not about next year, but also really impressive day for the JSerra kids. Grover 4th in the 1600 and Herold 6th in the 16000, then doubling back for 4th in the 3200. Pretty good for a D3 school, having 2 run so well.

FrenchDawg wrote:

Link to results

http://www.rtspt.com/events/cif/2019/

Dude blew us all away when he ran 8:40.00 to win Arcadia, so this result may seem underwhelming to some, but if you check the splits you know what happened. This wasn’t a time trial or a kickers race, Young took it out in 1:07, 1:07 followed by the whole field, and then proceeded to run 1:04 1:04 1:07 1:04 1:06 1:04 to finish in 8:47.27, just over 6 seconds ahead of NXN champ Liam Anderson, who himself was 4 seconds clear of 3rd placer Matt Strangio.

Nico Young is the craziest talent we have seen out of California since German Fernandez, and I think we are in for a hell of a post season from this kid no matter what meet he ends up at.

You don't show the tenths, but your splits add up to 4:22/4:21 or 8:43. Regardless, Jeff Nelson's 4:29/4:18 to win the state meet 2-mile on a dirt track in 1979 is a more impressive 8:47.

Why do you use the name of a city in Columbia to refer to the California state meet?

You answered your own questions. Yes those are his splits ( with tenths). Just click on the link and see his splits and to the math. I watched the race online, he looked great!

Does anyone know if strangio was hurt in the middle of this season? He ran 8:47 leading the whole way early in the season but then had a disappointing Arcadia for him going 9:00 and seemed to not race for a bit and not push hard in a lot of meets. Obviously he wouldn't have gone hard in them all regardless. His double yesterday was insane

SDSU Aztec wrote:

Why do you use the name of a city in Columbia (sic) to refer to the California state meet?

Humor backfail.

Liamatt Strangerson Young wrote:

Does anyone know if strangio was hurt in the middle of this season? He ran 8:47 leading the whole way early in the season but then had a disappointing Arcadia for him going 9:00 and seemed to not race for a bit and not push hard in a lot of meets. Obviously he wouldn't have gone hard in them all regardless. His double yesterday was insane

There wasn't any detail provided, but according to the linked news video Stangio missed about a month of training. He was also hindered by an injury during his XC season.

Wow! That's absolutely insane. This guy continues to pull off incredible things after injury. Probably the most talented highschool runner in the country.

YMMV wrote:

SDSU Aztec wrote:

Why do you use the name of a city in Columbia (sic) to refer to the California state meet?

Humor backfail.

A misspelling does not compare to deliberately using a moranic abbreviation that no real Californian would use. The equally offensive, to me, "Frisco" has somehow become acceptable over the years, though.

As a spectator & fan of the sport the meet was painful to watch. The amount of time between events and a meet that went from 6-10:30 and was only one heat of finals is the reason this sport is not popular.

Because I have lived here for my whole life and I can call it whatever the hell I want.

Agree about Nelson being the more impressive runner, through and through, but I believe that is going to change.

The meet took 4.5 hours due to the fact the calif. state meet has, unified, para, and ambulatory race mixed in, this is new the last few years. Why? While a know it is not politically correct why do the have these races in the meet. Hello, special olympics. They don’t have wheelchair basketball at the state finals.

Strangio seems to get injured every season, he was injured last year's track, this year's track and cross country.

Anderson's probably gonna be a 10k guy. Don't see him breaking 4 for a while.

Fhhch wrote:

The meet took 4.5 hours due to the fact the calif. state meet has, unified, para, and ambulatory race mixed in, this is new the last few years. Why? While a know it is not politically correct why do the have these races in the meet. Hello, special olympics. They don’t have wheelchair basketball at the state finals.

Agree. I have no problem with those athletes having their competition, but couldn't they hold those events first, before the regular meet started?

iiiooo wrote:

Fhhch wrote:

The meet took 4.5 hours due to the fact the calif. state meet has, unified, para, and ambulatory race mixed in, this is new the last few years. Why? While a know it is not politically correct why do the have these races in the meet. Hello, special olympics. They don’t have wheelchair basketball at the state finals.

Agree. I have no problem with those athletes having their competition, but couldn't they hold those events first, before the regular meet started?

You don't have a problem with those athletes having their competition? Good to know.

iiiooo wrote:

Fhhch wrote:

The meet took 4.5 hours due to the fact the calif. state meet has, unified, para, and ambulatory race mixed in, this is new the last few years. Why? While a know it is not politically correct why do the have these races in the meet. Hello, special olympics. They don’t have wheelchair basketball at the state finals.

Agree. I have no problem with those athletes having their competition, but couldn't they hold those events first, before the regular meet started?

Is 4.5 hours too long for a track meet? It's the state finals, I think we can all accept that it is about 20% longer than a dual meet. 3 additional races seems fine.

The entire finals took about half as long as just the high jump trials did the day before.

California is pretty is pretty long to write out