In this 3rd post of the weekend, it's the teenager's turn to shine.
And shine they did!!
If you read my post on the NY DL, you already know what happened there.
Alexa Efraimson ran just 2.43 seconds slower than Mary Cain ever has, her 4:07.05 taking 10th in the loaded 1500 Pro race.
There is strong indication (from Alexa herself!) that she'll follow Cain's path, turning Pro prior to her senior year of High School!
(More on these teenage phenoms in a future post!)
Also, Sarah Feeny broke 4:40 in the Dream Mile, running 4:39.23.
Kaylin Whitney ran 11.27 in the Dream 100.
And Grant Fisher won the Dream Mile in 4:02.02.
But you already knew that, right?
So let's move down south a bit, to Greensboro, North Carolina, for all the great marks made at the New Balance Nationals!!
Leading the charge was, again, Raven Saunders in the SP.
She threw the iron ball 56-7.50 for the NBN Meet Record!
It wasn't a PR, however, as she threw 56-8.25 for the Outdoor HSR earlier this spring.
There were two HSR's, albeit in "odd" events.
Bailey Roth ran the 2000 SC in a HSR time of 5:41.67.
The old mark was Steve Guerrini's 5:43.9, dating from 1991.
It's of course the NBN Meet Record.
And the HS Senior Class record.
Roth also holds the Class record for 11th graders.
I'm waiting for him to make an attempt at the HSR for 3000SC.
That 8:50.1 mark by Jeff Hess in 1979, is Roth's for the taking.
But he has just this summer to do it!
The Columbia TC (NJ) girl's team broke the Sprint Medley Relay HSR.
Their time of 3:50.82 is also the Meet Record.
Freshman Sydney McLaughlin has continued her record-breaking ways.
She broke her own Frosh Class record in the 400H, running 56.89 to get the mark by just 0.02 seconds.
She also did some damage in the 100H.
Her PR of 13.34 is now 22nd A-T HS, tied with one other.
And remember, she's just a 9th grader!!
That 100H race produced another good mark.
The winner, Alexis Duncan, ran 13.33 for the MR.
But she's also the new Soph Class record holder!!
(BTW, McLaughlin's mark is NOT a Frosh Class record, as Dior Hall ran 13.18 in her Frosh year in 2011.)
Duncan is now 18th A-T HS, tied with 3 others.
The Boys 110H winner, Isaiah Moore, ran 13.40 for 12th A-T HS, tied with 4 others!
Kenny Selmon blew away the 400H field, his 50.48 ranking him 17th A-T HS.
Trentavis Friday ran the 200 in 20.41 for the Meet Record.
Darryl Haraway got 2 PR's in the 100.
His 10.27 in the heats got him into 22nd place A-T HS, tied with 6 others.
Then he ran 10.20 in the final, moving him up 12 spots to 10th A-T HS, tied with 1 other!
The 5000's and the Girls 2 Mile were pretty good, though not as impressive as last year's Wesley Frazier Show.
(And I'm still wondering why she's not racing this year! Even if she's redshirting, she could race unattached!!)
Hannah Dibalsi's 2 Mile time of 10:09.08 moves her from 20th A-T HS all the way up to 8th!!
(Remember, I do NOT include any 3200 meter times on my lists, nor times converted from 3200 times! My Two Mile lists are PURE Two Mile lists!!)
And because of that "rule", my US 2 Mile lists are fairly weak, and thus relatively easy to get on.
So it shouldn't be too surprising to learn that Dibalsi's time ranks her 23rd A-T US!!!
Anna Rohrer basically soloed the 5000, her 16:16.97 being the only mark to gain access to my DDD, as 10th A-T HS.
Alex Ostberg ran his 5000 in 14:16.61.
But he misses the Top 24 by 0.41 seconds!!
Keturah Orji won both horizontal jumps, with her LJ mark of 20-11.75 being the new Meet Record.
It matched her PR, set in 2013.
Devin King failed at 3 attempts at 18-0.50, which would have been a PR and a Meet Record.
He made 17-7, then passed at 17-9.50, before going for the higher height.
Gabby Figueroa threw the Hammer 180-1, for 23rd A-T HS.
And Donovan Brazier ran the 800 in 1:48.61, for 24th A-T HS.
There's still more HS action to report, but not from the NBN.
And some of it is a week or so old.
Two marks from the Girl's Heptathlon.
Ashlee Moore scored 5311 points to move into 10th place A-T HS.
Moved OFF the list by Moore's mark was an oldie, Camille Harding's 5170, dating from 1983!!
Also entering the Top 24 was Tiana Bonds, her 5258 making her 16th A-T HS.
Haley Showalter improved in the HT to 193-4, moving her from 15th A-T HS up to 8th!
(She threw 180-7 at the NBN, finishing just 3rd!!)
Tyler Ranke ran the 3000SC in 9:11.24, becoming 21st A-T HS.
Misana Viltz ran the 110H in 13.47, moving into 23rd A-T HS, tied with 2 others.
And while I don't have State HSR's in my T&F Record Book (I used to, in its original conception!!), Ella Donaghu's 4:21.35 1500 (winning the "B" race at last night's Portland Track Festival) broke the Oregon state record (Erin Forbe's 4:24) by about 3 seconds!
It missed my DDD by only 0.25 seconds!!
It surprised me to learn about this mark.
I'd thought Oregon state records would be ALL in the Top TEN All-Time, at least in the middle and long distance events!!
Speaking of the PTF, there were some Meet Records broken last night.
And some interesting results, even if not record breakers!
Bridget Franek is back!
She surprised the crowd, and herself, with her MR 3000SC time of 9:41.21.
Kate Grace barely squeaked out the victory in the 800, her MR time of 2:02.00 winning by 0.01.
And the race produced a mass photo-finish, as the first 6 were just 0.49 apart!!
The other MR was set by comebacking Andy Wheating in the 1500.
He ran 3:38.53 with a great kick on the last straightaway!
Another fair-to-middling kicker last night was Mr Mobot himself, Mo Farah!!
He sped his final 400 in 53.1 (with a 25.5 200 mixed in there!!), winning the 5000 in a non-MR time of 13:23.42.
And Jordan Hasay won TWO races!
And they came just MINUTES apart!!!
Her first win was in the 1500, where she outkicked Angela Bizzari in 4:11.23.
Then, in place of Alberto Salazar's post race-workout, Hasay ran the 5000 also.
She beat close friend, and former Duckmate, Alexi Pappas (who PR'ed in 15:34) in a PR time of 15:28.56.
And she closed with a fast 63 final lap!!
Not bad....for a workout!!
In other Professional action, Nicole Bush ran a 3000SC in a PR of 9:34.76.
This moves her from 15th A-T US up to 11th.
Linda Stahl threw the Javelin 220-10 (in the NY DL).
This moves her from 13th A-T World, tied with 1 other, up to 10th!
Finally, Jenn Suhr's 15-5 2nd place in the NY Pole Vault (behind Fabiana Murer's 15-9) is the new Age 32 record!
It breaks her own mark, set earlier this year.
The Ostrava meet is tomorrow, and might be a good one, as far as records and marks go.
The IAAF article on the meet says that THREE World Record attempts will be made there!
Mohammed Aman is going for Noah Ngeny's 2:11.96 record in the 1000.
Genzebe Dibaba will chase down Sonia O'Sullivan's 5:25.36 WR in the 2000.
And Florence Kiplagat will actually be going after TWO World Records!!
She wants the One Hour Run record of 18,517 meters, and the 20000 meters record of 1:05:26.
Considering she ran a WR in the road Half-Marathon in 1:05:12, I would expect the 20K mark, about 0.7 miles short of the Half, would be easy pickings for her.
There will be several other super elites in this meet, and if results warrant, I'll have a separate post about it.
If not, the next post won't be for 6 or 7 days!
Also, as I stated above, I'm thinking about a post on the "Teen Phenom" Renaissance of the past few years, especially with the girls in the middle and long distances, but also including such stars as Kiturah Orji, Raven Saunders, Courtney Corrin, and Desiree Freier, among MANY others!!
What have they done to the record books?
And what's in the future, for them as individuals, and for the High School (and Collegiate) sections of the sport in general?
Anyway, watch for that, although I don't have a specific date for that post.
Great reports, as always! I'm proud to be an early discoverer of this terrific blog. Keep up the stellar and engaging reporting and this blog will eventually be discovered and valued by many fans.
ReplyDeleteI also want to add my voice to the throngs calling for your "Teen Phenom Renaissance" report. That should be fun. I know of many who will get top billings -- it's an exciting time for the new generation of stars. Just today I was thinking about the Cunningham high jumping siblings as among the emerging stars. I don't think I'm going too far out on a limb in predicting that Amy Acuff's venerable HS record will not be around by the time Vashti finishes high school.
While you predict that Alexa will soon turn pro -- she is good enough -- I'm hoping she'll stay in the high school ranks for her senior year and wipe out all of Mary's records. That would be so amazing!
Thanks, as always!!
DeleteAs for that Teen Phenom post, it's definitely going to happen, but I might wait until after WJC's!
Alexa?
Did you know she'll be racing 3 times in the next 3 weeks?
And twice----maybe!!----against Ms Mary!!
I say "maybe" because it's not known for certain which event Cain will try for at the WJ Trials (the Junior USATF meet in early July).
She's indicated she MIGHT run the 3000, not the 1500, there!!
Efraimson seems focused on the 1500.
However, Alexa will probably race against Cain in the USATF Senior meet in the 1500.
She's also slated to run the 800--against hot Raevyn Rogers!!
I say "hot" NOT referring to her looks, but to her having won the NBN 800 against Olivia Baker (who'd run that 2:02.55 relay leg at Penn!!) in 2:04.88, just 0.78 slower than Efraimson's PR.
If everything goes well at the Brooks PR meet (June 21 in Seattle), both of them could go under 2:02!!
I hope Cain DOES run the 3000. I feel she's capable of an 8:40 (or faster!!) time!!
In the Teen post, I'll be focusing on the girls, as that's where most of the change has taken place.
You spoke of Vashti Cunningham.
I agree she'll be breaking Acuff's record.....maybe THIS year....at the WJC's!!
BTW, do you know what happened to 2012's super-HJ star, Gabrielle Williams.
She jumped 6-2.75 as a sophomore---at the Olympic Trials no less, then disappeared.
I believe she just graduated HS, but haven't heard anything about her, except that I think she was injured last year (2013).
Also, my post won't focus only on HS'ers.
This year (and last year too!), you've had a few VERY good college freshmen (and women).
Ed Cheserek, Trayvon Bromell, Erin Finn, Kendell Williams, and a few others, all still teenagers!
Well, we'll see what happens in the Ostrava meet.
Could be a good one!
ADD: Raevyn Rogers's time of 2:04.88 wasn't mentioned in my NBN report, because it wasn't a PR (She ran 2:03.32 in 2013, which IS on my A-T list!!), and wasn't a MR either. The NBN Meet Record is Chanelle Price's 2:02.76 from 2007!!
DeleteI completely agree with your view of Mary Cain's potential in the 3K. (Actually, you've been spot on about Mary's potential in every event.) And though it would be fun to see what she could do at USATF Juniors in the 3K, my only regret would be if she therefore didn't face Alexa in the 1500. I think we need these young stars to face off against each other much more often than they do, and USATF -- both the Senior and the Junior events -- are a great place to do it. And put Elise Cranny in the race too! She was a little disappointing at Pre -- I'm sure she was hoping to go under 4:10 -- but she is a great runner and deserves to be at the starting line with Mary and Alexa. At the longer distances we also have Bethan Knights, Erin Flinn, Sarah Baxter, etc. Good times!
ReplyDeleteI had high hopes for Gabrielle Williams too, and maybe she'll still come through. I hope so. Sometimes when they drop out of sight like she has, we don't see them again. A couple years ago, when she and Kendell Williams topped the HS HJ charts, someone on some T&F forum made a comment about the "Williams sisters" (obviously meaning Venus and Serena), and I commented "of course you're referring to high jump stars Gabrielle and Kendell". Kendell is now an upcoming heptathlon star, and young Gabrielle is nowhere to be seen.
As for the "young teen phenoms" report, Mary Cain still stands as the epitome. Her 2013 season was probably the best ever by any female high school athlete, in any event. Even Jim Ryun can't claim a HS season quite as successful as Mary's last year. On the boy's side, we might have to go back to Bob Mathias (Oly gold) to find a HS athlete as successful as Mary (who was just a junior). On the girls side, there aren't any who can equal her. This in no way takes anything away from the many other emerging young stars, mostly girls as you rightly note, who are changing the face of T&F in the USA.
The next few months are the best time of the year. Your blog is going to make them a lot more enjoyable for me. Thank you!