Just an observation wrote:
Matthew Boling has jacked up deltoids. That's all you got to know.
Yeah, he looks like a caucasian version of Ben Johnson ca. 1988:
https://thebuzzmagazines.com/articles/2019/03/strake-jesuit-track-star-sets-new-markJust an observation wrote:
Matthew Boling has jacked up deltoids. That's all you got to know.
Yeah, he looks like a caucasian version of Ben Johnson ca. 1988:
https://thebuzzmagazines.com/articles/2019/03/strake-jesuit-track-star-sets-new-markNot White Lightning wrote:
Okay, I am old, but I was there. 1981 Illinois High School State Track and Field Finals. Class AA (there were only 2 at the time) 100 meters was won by Wallace Spearmon. That's Wallace SR, folks. Winning time? 9.95. Yes, it was wind aided, but it is still faster than the race run by Matthew Boling that everyone keeps saying is the fastest high school 100 meters ever run under any conditions. Here is the actual link to the IHSA records page, but feel free to look it up on your own to verify!
https://www.ihsa.org/SportsActivities/BoysTrackField/RecordsHistory.aspxYou have to scroll down to get to the Class AA results. Interesting side note, the Class A 100 winner (and 200 and LJ and TJ) was Mike Conley. Mike Conley SR, that is.
And for the record, even back in 1981, this was automatic timing. It was called "AccuTrack" or something like that, and it printed the results out on Polaroid film pictures after each race. But still legit.
1980-81 (AA)
100-meter dash
Place Name School Mark
1 Wallace Spearmon Blue Island (Eisenhower) :09.95
Is he really the fastest???? From Jack Shepard's HS Track and Track and Field News yearly and All-Time lists, here is the 100 meters USA High School stats
All-Time Wind Legal
10.00 Trentavis Friday (NC) 2014
10.01 Jeff Demps (FL) 2008
10.08 J-Mee Samuels (NC) 2005
10.09 Anthony Schwarts (FL) 2018, Altitude mark, non altitude best 10.13
10.13 Derrick Florence (TX) 1986
10.13 Matthew Boling (TX) 2019
10.14 Noah Lyles (VA) 2015
10.15 Henry Neal (TX) 1990
10.16 Houston McTear (FL) 1976
10.18 Roy Martin (TX) 1985
10.18 Ryan Clark (GA) 2015
10.19 Abraham Hall (TX) 2012
10.19 Tyreek Hill (GA) 2012
10.20 Brendan Christian' (TX) 2001, foreigner
10.20 Darryl Haraway (MD) 2014
All-Time Wind-Aided
9.98 Boling 2019
9.99 Trayvon Bromell (FL) 2013, Altitude mark
10.03 Demps 2008
10.05 Samuels 2005
10.05 Marvin Bracey (FL) 2011
10.07 Cameron Burrell TX) 2013
10.08 Prezel Hardy (TX) 2009
10.12 Jerome Harrison (IN) 1981, Altitude mark
10.12 Tory Mitchell (TX) 1998
10.12 Ivory Williams (TX) 2002
10.14 Martin 1984
10.15 Christian' 2002
10.15 Jaylon Hicks TX) 2011
10.15 Levonte Whitfield (FL) 2013
All-Time Wind Legal Hand Timed
9.9 Christian' 2002
10.0 William Reed (PA) 1986
All-Time Wind-Aided Hand Timed
9.8 Michael Taylor (LA) 1983
9.8 Hall 2012
9.9 Amar Johnson (TX) 1998
10.0 Wallace Spearman (IL) 1981
10.0 Thirteen others from 1981 to 2012 also have a 10.0
Overage
10.02 Edorian McCullogh (TX) 2002
So, why is Wallace Spearman's 9.95 not the fastest all conditions 100m mark? I think these are the reasons. Jack Shepard list his mark as a 10.0 hand time. If his 9.95 was a hand-time, it needs to be rounded up to a 10.0. Hand times should not be listed in hundredths. It may have been a hand time start with an auto finish. I think this is where the phrase Fully Automatic Timing (FAT) came from. Timing at the start and finish AND start would be considered FAT. "Partially electronic" (photo finish, but hand-time start) is still considered a hand-time. As a check, I also looked at Darren Kerns 1:51.57 800m win from Illinois HS State in 1981, and it's listed as a 1:51.6 for that year, indicating it's a hand-time. I think for distances 400 and below, 0.24 is added to a rounded up hand time. ().14 800 and up). So Wallace Spearman's time would change as follows: 9.95 partially auto (but considered hand-time) changes to a 10.0, then since it is hand, a 0.24 can be added for ranking/list considerations, giving a final 10.24 mark, that is wind-aided. As a check on this, Shepard's 1981 wind-aided 100m list for 1981 reads this way...
10.12A Jerome Harrison, A = altitude mark
10.24 Ken Robinson
10.0 Wallace Spearman
10.27 Jerome Harrison
10.31 Chris Sydnor
To conclude,
Trentavis Friday is the USA HS record holder at 10.00 (was he even mentioned in a post yet?). Wind was +1.6 m/s
Matthew Boling is the fastest All-Conditions with his 9.98w. Wind was 4.2 m/s
PS
Of interest to some is there are list that assign a time conversion for head or tail wind readings. I think Track and Field News created it, or adopted it from the creator, and its based on estimations/assumptions...not official. The wind effect assumptions are based on a 10.10 average size male sprinter in still air sea level conditions. Though they agree a head wind hurts more than a tail wind benefits, they roughly assign +/- .01 seconds or less to +/- .1 m/s wind.... but as a tail wind increases, especially around 3.0 m/s or more, the benefit becomes less than .01 seconds to .1 m/s of wind.
I'm not listing the whole chart, but it was from Track and Field News Big Red Book from 1996, and the chart may have been adjusted since then. Below are few time adjusted marks examples using the chart.
Friday 10.00 +1.6m/s, add .13, adjusted time would be 10.13 with a 0.0 wind
Demps 10.03 +1.6m/s, add .13, adjusted time would be 10.16 with a 0.0 wind
Samuels 10.05w +2.1 m/s, add .17, adjusted time would be 10.22 with a 0.0 wind
Boling 10.13 +1.3 m/s, add .11, adjusted time would be 10.24 with a 0.0 wind (some articles say 10.19)
Boling 9.98w +4.2m/s, add .30, adjusted time would be a 10.28 with a 0.0 wind (some articles say 10.16)
Brommell 9.99w +4.0 m/s, add .29, adjusted time would be 10.28 with a 0.0 wind
correcting mistakes...
"Timing at the start and finish AND start would be considered FAT" should read "Timing at the finish AND start would be considered FAT."
AND
" I think for distances 400 and below, 0.24 is added to a rounded up hand time. ().14 800 and up)" should read " I think for distances 400 and below, 0.24 is added to a rounded up hand time. (0.14 for 800 and up).
didn't Marvin Bracy run a 10.09? and also a wind aided 10.01
Whatley wrote:
The last white HS sprinter to get some attention was Casey Combest, I think he still holds some indoor record. He never lived up the hype however. Kinda mental.
Combest had horrible speed endurance, so his 60m time was absolutely elite (6.57), but he couldn't extend it out to 100m.
After high school, he basically was unable to train because he didnt have his life together. It took him over a decade after high school before he had solved his life issues and by them it was too late, he tried to make a comeback and couldn't do it.
Maybe if he had kept training after high school he could have focused on speed endurance and been elite in the 100m, too. You can only change your physiology so much, though. Coleman had the same problem and has definitely improved his speed endurance, but Combest was even more extreme in his lack of speed endurance and top end, he was just an incredible starter.
Here is an article from 2015, when he was 35 y.o.:
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/tim-sullivan/2015/12/11/m-one-those-people-could-have-been/77159550/Matthew Boling's last year of high school should have been last year. He should have finished his freshman year of college in May 2019. He is a year behind in school. How does he compare with other college freshman?
Why is anyone counting illegal wind time races and acting as though they are real records? He had a hurricane pushing him down the track, yet some want to count this as some sort of record... .it is not. No illegal wind times are every considered for a record.
No illegal wind times are every considered for the purpose of records...Unless you're in Trumps America.
Just an observation wrote:
Matthew Boling has jacked up deltoids. That's all you got to know.
What are you implying? The kid is as clean as they come.
CoachWebster wrote:
Matthew Boling's last year of high school should have been last year. He should have finished his freshman year of college in May 2019. He is a year behind in school. How does he compare with other college freshman?
Feels like he already has too much pressure on him. Consider what happened to lemaitre.
CoachWebster wrote:
Why is anyone counting illegal wind time races and acting as though they are real records? He had a hurricane pushing him down the track, yet some want to count this as some sort of record... .it is not. No illegal wind times are every considered for a record.
Because he is white.