Former school posted a "top 10 list" and my results where omitted. Do I do anything or just let it go?

Let it go, move one.

It depends.

What was your time?

HS or College?

Reach out to the coach, if he's missing a gap of time, he probably doesn't have access to results from those years.

The school I coach for had very haphazard and incomplete school records, I did some research and put out the best I possibly could. I love it when alumni send me old results to showing times that should be included.

Da Jagoff wrote:

It depends.

What was your time?

HS or College?

College.

It was for the distance events 800 - 5000. I ran all of those events over years at the school.

Unless your times were the fastest of all time, let it go. Nobody gives a spit if you were the 8th fastest at Powdunk State.

Of course you should say something. Man—all of you who say he should let it go are a problem.

You ran there for years and had top all-time marks at the college. There are also probably other people as well as you.

Say something. Be civil and polite and intelligent about it, but obviously you should say something.

I'm posting again basically what I posted before because I feel really strongly about this and I hope OP follows through.

As a coach that has worked on putting together historical lists of performances for my school, I want it to be as complete and accurate as possible. I absolutely want anyone that sees something missing to let me know. I've had it happen, and I love that sh!t.

The records just look better when you see marks from a variety of years.

What place were you? If you're #3, speak up! If you're #9, let it go. If you're #6, look at the current team and see whether there's a realistic chance that you'll be knocked off the list soon.

I'm with "Talk to the Coach". When I started coaching at my school there were no all-time lists, so I put a summer into putting them together. Through perusing internet results for recent results and microfiche for old results. Even with that, I know that results were missing. That was about 10 years ago and having a top 10 list proved very motivational for the athletes on the team. But over the first few years there were a fair number of athletes who contacted me about mistakes and omissions. I was happy to fix them to be more accurate, but the athletes on the team also like this (unless maybe the missing time bumped them down on a list), because they thought it was cool that people who were here before them were still paying some attention to the team now. Who knows how closely they were actually watching, but it gave the athletes the impression that some of the old time "greats" were watching what they were doing now.

Dont let it go, you earned the right to tell him.

Unless you have some documentation I doubt it will do any good . At the school where I coach , we put a story in the local paper when someone breaks a school record . Whenever it happens , someone always contacts the coaches and claims he did better . It’s always BS . One guy claimed he high jumped 7 feet at a time the state record was 6 10. When the 800 was broken , we had 4 people contact us. One said he broke it in a relay , another said he broke it in college , one guy said he broke it in practice .

Unless you have proof , we don’t accept it .

Hounddogharrier wrote:

Unless you have some documentation I doubt it will do any good . At the school where I coach , we put a story in the local paper when someone breaks a school record . Whenever it happens , someone always contacts the coaches and claims he did better . It’s always BS . One guy claimed he high jumped 7 feet at a time the state record was 6 10. When the 800 was broken , we had 4 people contact us. One said he broke it in a relay , another said he broke it in college , one guy said he broke it in practice .

Unless you have proof , we don’t accept it .

I have an old file of results (newspaper articles) etc.

Also, I think one of the times was a school record or close. I need to check and see. The point is I wasn't the ten fastest guy at "Podunk State". lol

Well, the best answer is, if it's important to you (which it seems to be,) by all means contact the coach.

Good thing you have support because guys who compile those lists think there is no possible way they could have an inaccurate list. They'll tell you your claim is BS even if its not.

I had the stat guy from the school contact me to congratulate me on being on his list, when I told him I had actually run faster than what was listed (run at an away meet) and the guy pretty much said BS. They seem to forget there was once no internet... lol

A newspaper article would be about they only thing they would believe . The old adage everyone gets faster in high school as they get older is very true.

Ozzie wrote:

I'm with "Talk to the Coach".

The OP needs to do a F2F (face-to-face) meeting and needs to wear his high school letterman's jacket, and bring his medals, show his framed news clippings of his exploits when he "chats" with the new coach.

Most coaches will want the list to be accurate. I wouldn’t bother if was high school, like when mine got a new coach who decided to start a new list with metric results only and couldn’t even be bothered to convert the old imperial results which were intrinsically better. Whatever.

But if you went to a major university, sure, it’s worth a quick note or conversation with the coach. But like others said, provide documentation...newspaper articles, top 10 lists for the year published by the conference or Track & Field News, school programs or media guide with your times next to your name. Even better if you can provide any info on your teammates who might have also been overlooked.

Smh the fact that you have to even ask this. If you are a man then you definitely LET IT GO!!!

Like Really Bro wrote:

Of course you should say something. Man—all of you who say he should let it go are a problem.

You ran there for years and had top all-time marks at the college. There are also probably other people as well as you.

Say something. Be civil and polite and intelligent about it, but obviously you should say something.

+1. It’s honestly irresponsible to not tell them.

I would want to know.

When I took over as coach there were no records at all. I dug through microfilm and past results and regional all-time lists. One I established most schoolrecords I backfilled to top 10. I knew some were missing and over the years previous athletes reached out and shared old newspaper clippings and results. I really appreciated because I wanted it to be as accurate as possible.