Four of them!
Add the 2 from December, and this INdoor season---with 10 solid weeks to go---already has seen SIX Class Records broken!
I can't recall such an early season attack on Class Records since beginning my blog!
No one can match what Katelyn Tuohy did on the Ocean Breeze oval in what amounted to a solo time trial!
Her 3000 meter time of 9:05.26 stands second only to Mary Cain's 9:04.51 on the A-T HS list!!
(NOT counting, of course, Cain's 9:02.10, or Alexa Efraimson's 9:00.16--both run on Seattle's Oversize Track!!)
Attacking from the gun, Tuohy's first 1000 was a 2:57--merely 8:51 pace!!
She passed 1600 meters in 4:45.32, a time not yet run this season by any HS'er!!
She reached 2000 in 5:57, just under 8:56 pace!
Slowing to 38's for 2 laps over the last K, her pick-up on the last go-round wasn't enough to get Cain's HSR!
But compare these 2 phenoms!
Cain was a Junior in 2013.
Tuohy is a 10th Grader!
Cain's run was against World Class Professionals.
Tuohy's beat her feeble HS "competition" by a whopping 93 seconds!!
Coming into INdoors, Cain LOST her last XC race of 2012.
Tuohy was coming off a season where she smashed Course Records in almost every race!!
I can't wait until the Virginia Showcase meet on January 20th, where she's expected to chase Brie Oakley's HSR over 5000 meters!!
Don't be shocked if she runs in the 15:20's!!
Trey Knight OWNS the Weight Throw this season!!
I came upon these marks late, but in the last days of December, Knight added over 5 feet to the Soph Class Record--in 2 meets.
He first nipped the old mark by a few inches, his 75-6.50 becoming his 2nd Class Record, as he also has the Frosh Class Record!!
This mark missed my DDD by 9 inches!
But a meet on December 30th kicked him past 80 feet!!
I don't have his series, but apparently he broke his own mark a few times in this meet!
His final distance was 80-7.25.
It makes him 11th A-T HS!!
(Remember me saying that Conor McCullough's 93-3.25 HSR might last into the 22nd Century??
Um, let me revise that remark!! LOL)
The other Class Record goes to the Rick & Jenn Suhr-mentored Pole Vaulter--Erica Ellis!
With just a 13-2.25 INdoor PR (& a 13-3 OUTdoor best) from 2017, Ellis became only the 7th High School Woman to go over a bar set at 14 feet or higher INdoors!!
Her 14-1.25 gives her the Junior Class Record!
It makes her 6th A-T HS!!
Not totally certain, but I believe this is the EARLIEST 14 footer by a HS girl--ever!!
BTW, the tweet announcing this mark listed it as 14-1.50.
But it said the metric measurement was 4.30.
So I checked my Big Gold Book--and found NO metric equivalent for 14-1.50!
The Book said 4.30 was 14-1.25, and 4.31 was 14-1.75!
Since the results indicated her mark WAS 4.30, I'm listing it as 14-1.25!
This was at the Akron PV meet!
The Elite sections were taken by Matt Ludwig (at 17-6.50, in a Jump-Off against Shawn Barber) and Katie Nageotte!
Nageotte did just 3 heights---her winner of 14-11.50 coming in the middle--followed by 3 misses at 15-7.25!!
Suhr was a DNS!!
Class Records weren't the only highlights of 2018's first week!
Lynna Irby opened her Collegiate career with a solid 300 of 36.73---beating one Kyra Jefferson, who finished over a second behind the Georgia Frosh!!
Irby is now 6th A-T Collegiate!
She is 16th A-T US!
And she misses the World list by just 0.09 seconds!!
Jefferson's time was 37.74, while Taylor Manson's 37.92 in 3rd makes her 22nd A-T Collegiate!!
The Clemson meet also saw a fast Men's 300!
Ben Vedel won in 32.80, beating Kenle Fasasi's 33.22, not a PR!
Vedel is 4th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
He missed the World DDD by 0.08 seconds!!
Georgia's trio of LJ'ers took the 1st 3 places at the Clemson meet.
Kate Hall's 21-9.50 topped the podium.
This makes her 21st A-T Collegiate, tied with 3 others!
Keturah Orji was 2nd with 21-2, while Super Frosh Tara Davis took 3rd with a leap of 21-1.25!
Hall won the 60 also--in 7.32.
Davis was 3rd in the 60H, time of 8.28!
Other good marks include---
Javon Joyner's WT of 60-5.25, making her 14th A-T HS!
Shelby Moran's WT of 60-3.75, moving her from 20th A-T HS to 15th!
Devin King PV'ing 18-4.50.
Anicka Newell going over 14-3.25, while Morgann LeLeux No-Heighted!!
Tonea Marshall sprinting the 60H in 8.14.
Aleia Hobbs speeding a 7.27 heat in the 60, then doing the final in 7.24!
Brian Herron continued his great season!
He ran his 200 heat (in the A&M meet) in 21.05.
This was 0.10 seconds slower than his 20.95 in December!
(See my earlier post!)
He didn't run the final!
He ran a relay leg of 45.61--but his team was DQ'ed!!
Besides Ms Tuohy, another who had a solid XC season--Jacqueline Gaughan--ran a good distance time!
Gaughan did the Two Mile (NOT 3200!!) in 10:20.77.
She missed the HS list by 4.02 seconds!
Tevin Hester did a 60 in 6.59.
Natoya Goule didn't PR, but her 600 of 1:28.20 won easily!
As did Jeff Green's 1:18.07.
That one missed the Collegiate DDD by 0.24 seconds!
HS'er Mayson Connor HJ'ed 7-0.25.
Zach Bradford PV'ed 17-0, missing my HS list by 2 inches!
Another Georgia athlete--Keenon Laine--HJ'ed 7-5.25!
OUTdoors--in Australia--Kurtis Marschall PV'ed 18-8.25!
Finally, in the NYRR 4 Mile--run at midnight of New Year's Eve/Day--Molly Seidel won in 21:24!
Sarah Pagano took 2nd in 21:32, while Stephanie Bruce was 3rd in 21:39.
The Men's race was won by Reid Buchanan's 19:08!!
In OTHER news---
Demi Payne did NOT compete in the December 30th PV meet in Belton TX!!
I was told that she MIGHT compete there (She was listed as an entrant!!)--IF she could train enough while caring for her sick mother!
Chris Brown--a busy person in the Age Records Department--is returning to INdoor Track!!
Thus, the Age 39 Record is HIS!!
(What will it be??)
Andrew Wheating--that tall & lanky former Duck (& TrackTown movie star!!) has retired!!
If you get a chance, read his funny (& lengthy!) announcement--posted on Facebook!!
Abbey D---aka Abbey D'Agostino--is getting hitched!!
She said the wedding will take place on July 6th!!
Gabe Grunewald (My World & US Personality of the Year---See my earlier post!) happily announced that her cancer treatments seem to be working---as her tumors are getting smaller!!
This ever-smiling inspiration continues to amaze!!
On a sad note, however, news came in that the 1952 Olympic Gold Medal winner in the 3000SC---Horace Ashenfelter--has died at Age 94---just 17 days before turning 95!!
His time of 8:45 was a World Record when run!!
He was also excellent in the Two Mile and other distances!
One of the All-Time Greats of American Track & Field, Mr Ashenfelter is greatly missed!!
See you soon!
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