The champ wrote:
The XC Guy wrote:
Instead of another Mt Rushmore discussion... post who you think is the top all-time HS guy from your state, or states you're familiar with, based on their HS career only.
Some of them are pretty obvious (NJ - Cheserek, IL - Verzbicas... though somebody will shout "Virgin!")... others are really up for debate (Maine - True vs Lucchini)...
Verzbicas isn't in Virgin's class.
As far as HS is concerned, Verzbicas was beyond Virgin.
Virgin has the IL State Record (though realistically, it should belong to Chris Derrick, given that the course was lengthened since Virgin had run it). For those questioning it, apparently in 2003, the course was lengthened from 2.96 to 3.0 miles:
http://archive.dyestat.com/3state/r4mw/6xc/IL-StateMeet/Index.htmlVerzbicas on the other hand, won the state meet twice, won Footlocker twice, and is the only runner to win Footlocker and NXN in the same year. He was also undefeated in all of high school cross country.