Isn’t he June 2000? That makes him 18.
Isn’t he June 2000? That makes him 18.
Little League has it right wrote:
Little League Baseball has it right. Little League Baseball does not allow older kids to compete against younger kids. Little League Baseball goes by age, not level of formal education. I'd like to see U.S.A. high school track & field go away from school grade to age. Matt Boling, athletically should be competing against athletes at Power 5 conference universities instead of beating up on high school kids. Was he held back for an athletic advantage by his parents? Was Boling held back for academic/learning disability reasons? No 19 year old should be able to compete in U.S. high school athletics.
The guy is impressive, but I agree, this school grade thing is beyond ridiculous.
Little League has it right wrote:
Little League Baseball has it right. Little League Baseball does not allow older kids to compete against younger kids. Little League Baseball goes by age, not level of formal education. I'd like to see U.S.A. high school track & field go away from school grade to age. Matt Boling, athletically should be competing against athletes at Power 5 conference universities instead of beating up on high school kids. Was he held back for an athletic advantage by his parents? Was Boling held back for academic/learning disability reasons? No 19 year old should be able to compete in U.S. high school athletics.
IAAF lists Boiling's birthdate as June 20, 2000. I know the numbers are hard to crunch, but that makes him 18 years old.
That’s OBADELE THOMPSON.
Nice from Boling, very nice—but as I said, and as he knows, there is still lots of real estate to cover to get to sub-10.
Very promising, though, I will have to watch the vid when I have time.
LetsRun.com wrote:
Converting it for wind, it's equivalent to a 10.16 in still conditions according to Jonas Mureika's calculator. The run reminds us very much of Odapele Thompaon's 9.69 in 1996 when he was a 20-year old at UTEP. (5.0 m/s). Thompson was a great sprinter (Olympic bronze in 2000) but his career best with a legal wind was 9.96.
http://jmureika.lmu.build/track/wind/index.html
You are correcting down to zero wind. With a legal limit wind (2.0) it would be a 10.08.
This kid is the real deal. He is. Great sprinter. Great long jumper.
But let's ease up with all the hyperbole already. The wind was +4.2 m/s! Everyone is freaking out here.
Friday and Demps went 10.00 and 10.01 both with +1.6 m/s wind. I'll take those as amazing times.
I'm looking forward to see what Boling can do when he gets it all right. His start in this race sucked - he stumbled on the second step. by 10m he was in the lead. If he gets the start right and keeps developing, he'll got sub-10, but he's got to do it with legal wind before I celebrate the time. I'll celebrate the race he ran, because he stumbled and still schooled those kids, but not the time so much.
Keep it rolling, Boling.
Whatisinmywallet wrote:
LetsRun.com wrote:
Converting it for wind, it's equivalent to a 10.16 in still conditions according to Jonas Mureika's calculator. The run reminds us very much of Odapele Thompaon's 9.69 in 1996 when he was a 20-year old at UTEP. (5.0 m/s). Thompson was a great sprinter (Olympic bronze in 2000) but his career best with a legal wind was 9.96.
http://jmureika.lmu.build/track/wind/index.htmlYou are correcting down to zero wind. With a legal limit wind (2.0) it would be a 10.08.
All conversions should be to the fastest legal condition.
4.2 m/s wind folks... wrote:
This kid is the real deal. He is. Great sprinter. Great long jumper.
But let's ease up with all the hyperbole already. The wind was +4.2 m/s! Everyone is freaking out here.
Friday and Demps went 10.00 and 10.01 both with +1.6 m/s wind. I'll take those as amazing times.
I'm looking forward to see what Boling can do when he gets it all right. His start in this race sucked - he stumbled on the second step. by 10m he was in the lead. If he gets the start right and keeps developing, he'll got sub-10, but he's got to do it with legal wind before I celebrate the time. I'll celebrate the race he ran, because he stumbled and still schooled those kids, but not the time so much.
Keep it rolling, Boling.
Trentavis Friday was a month past his 19th birthday when he set the record on July 5, 2014.
I believe that Boling, Wind legal and with a great start will be closer to 10.05 June/July. +1.6 would be very helpful in this.
Demps and Friday never improved on their times with a wind legal mark. Demps ran 10.02 last season.
The Obadele Thompson reference is incorrect ..9 87, 19.97 and 45.45 ...the 9.69 had no wind reading, other races that day had as high as a 5.om/s...
Why does the link on the front page say he's 19? He's 18. He'll be in college before he's 19.
Dude is a freak athlete.
He's a monster in the 100m, 200m, and long jump. He could be in the 400 as well (considering as a junior last year he finished 2nd and ran like a 46.7 or so). The scary part is he's so much faster this year.
There's almost no event he couldn't compete in. The best athlete in the nation for sure, this year. Could be #1 in 4 different events, or close to it, in my opinion.
I'm dying to know what he ran in the 4x400 split at Regionals the other day, where he anchored and won the race. His team ran around 3:13 or so.
I split him at 45.97
LRC idiot wrote:
White dude running fast? Definitely doping.
What has his progression been like? Last year times? This year he has been smoking fast.
Progression of his times wrote:
What has his progression been like? Last year times? This year he has been smoking fast.
He didn't run the 100/200 much last year, but 46.15 in the 400 ... I think a 25-footer in LJ or close.
Ordinarily, seniors will turn 18 prior to September of the year they leave high school, so he's about a year older than the typical hs senior. That should be factored into the evaluation of his stellar performances, so that he might be judged more against college true frosh (albeit with college facilities and training partners and competitors) than hs. Still, he's likely to run considerably faster than 10.16 against better competition this summer, and the long jump is legitimate.
So, rating him by comparison to freshmen and other college athletes, he does very well.
10.12w and 10.16w were the only times for freshmen better on the us track coaches website for college and they were both wind-aided, while 26'9 3/4" was the best long jump of all collegians, just under Bolling's mark.
http://www.ustfccca.org/records-lists/collegiate-all-time-bests?sport=2&season=this#mLJ
Way back in the 1920's HSer Frank Lombardi ran a 9.6 to win the Cali State champs, that tied the WR.
It's not that white cats can't sprint, it's they can't run with those wth those western African roots.
Nothing was made of that 10.00 HS record by Trendarvis Friday, which is superior to this + 4 9.98. The big deal is a fast white cat.
We have never seen a fast white SEC sprinter, will this kid be the first? And, his event sjould be that 200m. white sprinters have always done better there,
Where is he going to college?
bleu wrote:
Where is he going to college?
Georgia
And I'll predict that he will cement his place among the top high schoolers ever at the state meet in two weeks. I bet he flirts with the 10 barrier again, jumps 26 mid to high, and run a 45 split on the 4x4 (and something else crazy on the 4x200.)
Texas HS Coach wrote:
bleu wrote:
Where is he going to college?
Georgia
And I'll predict that he will cement his place among the top high schoolers ever at the state meet in two weeks. I bet he flirts with the 10 barrier again, jumps 26 mid to high, and run a 45 split on the 4x4 (and something else crazy on the 4x200.)
Based on what he has legitimately done, this is not an earth shattering prediction. But you are likely right.