My school's records suck. This is because we are a small school (about 235 students) and have only had a track team for 6-7 years. Each record is held by a different person as the 800 record was set by a 400/800 guy, the 1600 record holder didn't run the 3200 his senior year, and the 3200 guy wasn't fast enough to break the other two records. Only one person in out team's history has even made it to the state meet and that was the 800 guy. Nobody at our school is serious enough to do the work to run blazing times. Our cross country team has been lazy and sucked for 30 years until finally getting decent in the last year or two. Hopefully these records will be broken this year, as we are finally starting to get a good distance squad that has the potential to break these times. The 3200 will certainly go, as we have people in X-C who can run faster than 10:56 right now. The 1600 and 800 will be more difficult, but are definitely a possibility. I am hoping to break all of these records, as they are not terribly fast. Hopefully my school's track team will become much more competitive in the future.
(In 1966 Bob Scurich ran 1:53.87 which was 880y for sure. Not sure if Vazquez ran 800m or 880y but he is the official school record holder)
Angel Vasquez ran an 880 yard race. CIF & CCS switched to the metric (800 meters) in the '82 season. If I recall correctly, he ran this in the '81 CCS Region IV meet in Salinas, I watched him, what an impressive, strong, yet light-footed runner. Looked like he was barely touching the track.
So how many of your HS's have set their records in the last 10 years?
In 1996 I set my HS's 1600 and 3200 record. The previous 1600 record was from 1966, the 3200 was from 1991, but before that the 1960s. The 800m record was set by a teammate. All 3 are still standing.
None are really that fast. 4:27, 9:32 and I think the 800m record was 1:59. This is for a small suburban school of about 400 students that was upwards of 700-800 in the 70s before redistricting.
Most of the record list at all distances is filled with people from the last 5 years. The XC coach really locked in like a year before I graduated and then a couple years later people started rapidly improving. Before then it was usually 1 or 2 strong runners and then everyone else running like 18-19+ for 5K
1:55 (early 2000s), 4:13 and 9:17 (both set the year before I came in as a freshman)
I don't have the actual official list of records but these sound about right from what I remember.
We never had any good 800 runners in our HS league during my 4 years - the competition was so shallow that 2:10 (on dirt track, admittedly, but still) was considered pretty good for varsity guys. There was one guy in the 1:57-1:58 range, a consistent 2:02-3 guy and then no one else. Coach decided to put me in just to score points a few times. I didn't like the intensity of an all out 800, but was still shocked that jogging a 2:09 was good enough to place third in league.
We currently have an underclassmen who might be able to challenge 1:55 by the time he's a senior, as he ran 1:57 and sub 4:30. Will be watching him closely.
Don't see the 1600 and 3200 records going any time soon, our best guys on most given years are usually just under 4:30 and the training volume we do isn't conducive to having a good 1600-3200 conversion.
(In 1966 Bob Scurich ran 1:53.87 which was 880y for sure. Not sure if Vazquez ran 800m or 880y but he is the official school record holder)
Angel Vasquez ran an 880 yard race. CIF & CCS switched to the metric (800 meters) in the '82 season. If I recall correctly, he ran this in the '81 CCS Region IV meet in Salinas, I watched him, what an impressive, strong, yet light-footed runner. Looked like he was barely touching the track.
The boys records are 9:57 for the 3200, 4:29 for the 1600, and 1:57 for the 800. All 15+ year old records.
The girls records are 11:40 for the 3200, which was just broken, 5:25 for the 1600 (20 years old, the girl with the 3200 record ran 0.23 seconds off this record yesterday), and 2:22 for the 800 (also 20 years old and ran by the same girl as the 1600 record, the 3200 record girl doesn't really have much top speed and only runs a 2:37 800)