TrackCoach wrote:
realist505 wrote:
What do Goucher, Flanagan & Barringer have in common? They were not running national records in high school. They focused on steady improvement not chasing down times.
It is true that most high school phenoms burn out, but there are exceptions. Hopefully Sveinsson and Hasay are exceptions, but lets time tell and not Letsrun pundits.
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From what I remember, Goucher, Flanagan & Barringer were great H.S. athletes and started running even before H.S. The best girls in H.S. generally end up being the best girls in College...I am not sure why you focus on the exceptions. Bri, Kooons, Lawarence, Price, Kosinski, Jones, Blood, Edwards, Bowman, etc., etc., were actually great age group runners. Like I said, why focus on the exceptions?[/quote]
Yes, they were great high school runners but they were not running extermely fast times that were near national records. Who were the exceptions that I was focusing on? I just gave examples of some current Olympians that were not running near record times in high school. I just think that we put too much stock in high school times. That was my point.