MaryBeth Sant 11.38! 100M Fastest time in country HS. White girl!

You guys are all excited about what Oregon might have next year? I would bet that they have a faster relay team this year if they can get Jasmine Todd ready by Nationals. I bet English Gardiner will go pro after this year, so they will have to do with Francis, Todd, Sant and Prandini next year. Not too shabby, but not as quick as this year's group might be.

ya, Christian Brennan is smoking fast in the 200M as well, surely she can run 100M fast.

Very quick young woman, very quick turn-over! And by the looks of it, she can run even faster with some coaching on her running form alone. She looks kind of all over the place. But wow. Fast!

Sant and Cunliffe have been discussed on this board before, when they were both around 11.7

IIRC (and I may not) I made some comment about them having too much back-side action

A time like this can be achieved on leg speed alone, which is what she seems to have done, and what various women have done to get down even a bit lower. It works, but only so far.

Hopefully she will continue to develop her technique.

lol, she is now faster than I am! Good for her--out with the old, in with the new.

Hey Sant, I'm going to have to up my game now!

Sant's form was much better at Liberty Bell meet last week. Did not look to great at HR in 4x100, but she did run 23.91 the night before.

Almost all HS kiddos have way too much back. Sants is better than most.

Oregon just landed it's best recruiting class ever on the Womens side can't wait to watch Sant,Crouser,Wallace,Brennan and company in the near future at Hayward Field Go Ducks

So I wonder how Cunliffe will now do in the 100m.

She beat Sant over 60m in February, 7.38 to 7.47

Anybody know if she's been outdoors yet?

Speaking of Sant's 7.47, done at the Brooks PR Invitational in February, that should equate to something like 11.50 outdoors, which is exactly what her 11.38 (+1.2) done at 1525m altitude adjusts to.

Considering that, it is quite possible that we will see improvement from her in the 100m as the season progresses...but I'm not sure how her HS training and competition schedule lays out.

11.50 basic shows steady progress, hopefully Cunliffe will equal or better that mark.

Oregon already owns the middle distances and i can't wait to see Oregon own the sprints in the very very near future as well. Now the Ducks just need to add Cain and Baxter for next years class and the Ducks will be unstoppable.

I have to get in one of these altitude meets sometime.

I don't think it would matter much in the 60, but in the 100 and maybe 200 outdoors, I think the advantage would be decent.

Of course, I would never put the (A) after whatever time I got!

Sprintgeezer I am not at all happy with the view of the you had from the original poster. Try this one, I am in the stands, standing at the 60 meter mark. I hope this will give you a better view of MB's front side mechanics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zTbL5v7bts

holy cow - between Sant, Cain, Ajee Wilson and Baxter, i think it is fair to say this is the best US jr team ever - from 100m to 5k we have girls who can win world jr champs. And maybe probably baxter could do some damage at 10k too.

Oh by the way fyi the butt kicking was much more worse than that. In the second heat of the 60 meter dash prelims at the Brooks PR meet Marybeth ran 7.60 while Kali Davis-White ran 7.31 and Hannah Cunliffe ran 7.38. It was only in the first of two finals that MB's time dropped to 7.47 in a heat where she wasn't facing Kali, Aaliyah, Hannah, Kennadi or Ariana.

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Great view! Thanks much.

My comment about her back-side mechanics was made on 2012 performances, not on the vid earlier posted.

But seeing the one to which you just linked, I must say that I am impressed. It looks like she has abbreviated her rearward arm action over all but the first few steps, and that knee drive is pretty darn good.

The development in form is visible. Still maybe some room for improvement in the head/chest position, but that was sweet.

Although you really can't tell anything from the vid, what I could see of the start reminded me of Privalova for some reason.

This is a very nice step in her development.

11.32 (A), you missed that key symbol, about (at least) +0.05 seconds, and likely twice that (+0.10) for the altitude effect; still a very good time. (wind?)

Cunliffe ran 11.58(+1.8), 23.45(+2.3) in Seattle on Sat.

Sprintgeezer wrote:

Although you really can't tell anything from the vid, what I could see of the start reminded me of Privalova for some reason.

SG-

There's a reason and it probably has some implication for what you are trying to do this season.

MaryBeth runs for the Colorado Flyers. Her coach, Clint Wells, died a year ago, but he was the most successful high school sprint coach in the country, and I imagine they're still using his system:

HEAVY weights (doubles and triples mostly)

Heavy plyos (box jumps and depth jumps)

Short sprints from blocks (up to 30m I think)

Everything is about push and explode.

This is indoors.

Outdoors, they add 3X150 once a week.

BTW, Cunliffe ran 11.67 at Brutus-Hamilton a week ago.

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Thanks for that. I thought for sure some idiot would claim that it was only because she is white.

Push & explode, sounds great to me. I'll be ahead at the 10m mark for sure, lol

Good info about Cunliffe, it figures to be a good year following all these HS girls as their seasons progress. Always to follow younger athletes who are improving.

quote]Sprintgeezer wrote:

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Thanks for that. I thought for sure some idiot would claim that it was only because she is white.

Push & explode, sounds great to me. I'll be ahead at the 10m mark for sure, lol

Good info about Cunliffe, it figures to be a good year following all these HS girls as their seasons progress. Always to follow younger athletes who are improving.[/quote]

Cunliffe does not run HS track. All of her races this spring have been against collegians and other unattached sprinters. Sat was her 3rd 100m race this spring. She debuted at the Oregon Relays in 11.91(-1.2).