So this morning we're working on links for the homepage and find an article about Alfred Chawonza. He's from Zimbabwe but has been running in the US in HS for the last few years. A 1:49 performer in 2016, he ran the 1:50.57 indoor 800 this year - the fastest in the country.
He's apparently signed with Texas Tech and he described his decision as follows:
“I wanted to go to the southern part of the country because I am not a fan of the snow. It snows a lot where I am and it messes with my training, but the south is warm almost all year round, similar to home. Texas Tech is also one of the best business schools in the country and so it was attractive from an education standpoint because I want to be a business major. Most importantly, they have one of the best mid-distance programmes in the country if not the best, so that was for me the deciding factor,” Chawonza said.
Does Texas Tech have won of the best mid-d programs in the country?
They had 3 sub-1:50 guys this year indoors (Vincent Crisp (1:47.28), Jonah Koech (1:47.29) and Sven Cepus (1:49.41))
They had 1 guy under 4:10 this year.
If you are looking at 400, it looks like they had 7 guys under 49 with 1 under 48 (Tyreek Mathis 46.31)
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2019/03/24/chawonza-zim-athletics-star-making/