White HS sprinters trivia

[piaba]

did anyone mention Kevin Little? former 200 m indoor wold champion. did he represent the US in 4x100 relay teams? don't know what his 100 m best time is.

i seem to recall another 200 m runner named Dave Dopek a few years back.

[terry_brooks35@yahoo.com]

Jason Leach ran about 4 manual ten flat(10.0) hundred meter dashes. 10.41 legal(in New Mexico) back in 84. In 83 John Patterson ran a 46.0 in the 400 at texas state.Trey Griffen ran 10.31w to win texas 4a state championship in 2001.Trey will also compete on the track for the horns this year.Bobby Jack Goforth ran 13.70 at the 85 texas relays (13.7 to win 3a state in 84) in the 110hh. Martin Dossett ran 13.59(110hh) in 1997.Texas has had many fast white sprinter\hurdlers.I'm not really sure why many of these guys don't pursue sprint glory any further than the high school level.I KNOW if these guys tried,they would enjoy success at what ever level they trained and competed.

[trackstar]

Bobby Jack Goforth ran 13.70 at the 85 texas relays (13.7 to win 3a state in 84) in the 110hh.

Terry, getting to watch your brother and Bobby Jack duel every week in the hurdles was incredible. What a rivalry! I think my dad still has some photos of them running side-by-side. To this day, I still maintain that Tony had the best hurdling form I've ever seen, be it high school, college, or pro. You couldn't have slid a piece of notebook paper between his leg and the hurdle.

[Jacksf]

[quote="SQUACKEE"]when i was a senior (1971) in highschool in california the state meet,220, was won by a white dude in 21.1-chuck bommarito sp?[/quote

Bommarito was the last white to win a short sprint at the CA HS championships until Bruno came along.

[SQUACKEE]

when i was a senior (1971) in highschool in california the state meet,220, was won by a white dude in 21.1-chuck bommarito sp?[/quote

Bommarito was the last white to win a short sprint at the CA HS championships until Bruno came along.

thanx jack, how fast did Bruno run?

[Jacksf]

Bruno was a convincing winner at the CA HS championships in 10.55 and 20.82.
Interestingly, Reggie Bush, the likely Heisman winner this year was 3rd in 10.74.
http://www.dyestat.com/state/ca/2out/statemeet/r-10.htm

[SQUACKEE]

Bruno was a convincing winner at the CA HS championships in 10.55 and 20.82.
Interestingly, Reggie Bush, the likely Heisman winner this year was 3rd in 10.74.
http://www.dyestat.com/state/ca/2out/statemeet/r-10.htm

bruno is a rock! i dont recall seeing thighs like those on a sprinter. a football player or shotputter but not century man.

[paulthefan]

Bruno was a convincing winner at the CA HS championships in 10.55 and 20.82.
Interestingly, Reggie Bush, the likely Heisman winner this year was 3rd in 10.74.
http://www.dyestat.com/state/ca/2out/statemeet/r-10.htm

bruno is a rock! i dont recall seeing thighs like those on a sprinter. a football player or shotputter but not century man.

He probably should have chosen football.

[barry]

What happened to Matt Bruno? Did he ever run the 400 open?

[Jacksf]

He was another one who just didn't perform as well in college as he did in high school.
His times were rather pedestrian his 1st 2 years at UCLA, and then he was kicked off the team. Never heard exactly why.

As far as I know he never ran the 400.

[Littlemac]

100m
1. Wayne Johnson '78 TX 5A HS Champ
2. Casey Combest '98 KY HS Champ
3. Matt Bruno '02 CA HS Champ
4. Jason Leach '84 TX 5A 2nd place
5. Trey Griffin '01 TX 4A HS Champ


Of these guys the only one that had any success after high school was Jason Leach.

[jhc68]

Back in the day... 41 years worth of days, in fact, Fred Kuller emerged during his senior year at Santiago HS in Orange County, CA. He ran consistent sub-10 sec 100yds, then went on to Santa Ana JC, to the USA/USSR dual meet, to USC and 9.3 (or 9.4?) PR and the WR 440 yd relay team.

[Track fan]

I can see a National enquirer story years from now, I blew away Reggie Bush.........

[harvtrack]

100m
1. Wayne Johnson '78 TX 5A HS Champ
2. Casey Combest '98 KY HS Champ
3. Matt Bruno '02 CA HS Champ
4. Jason Leach '84 TX 5A 2nd place
5. Trey Griffin '01 TX 4A HS Champ


Of these guys the only one that had any success after high school was Jason Leach.

Yes, but Griifin gets another shot at fame...after playing football at SMU he is in grad school at Texas and has a year of eligibility left (is listed on the horns roster)[quote][/quote]

[JRM]

I was the top white high school sprinter in New Brunswick in 1988-89, for what's it worth...

[Track fan]

I bet that doesn't even get you a free cup off cofee........ By the way what did you run?

[JRM]

I bet that doesn't even get you a free cup off cofee........ By the way what did you run?

I'll take the free cup of coffee!... I ran the 100m and 200m in high school, PRs of 10.9s (11.15) and 22.6 (22.91). At the end of the summer of '89 (Canada Games), I had graduated to 400m (49.90). For the next 4 years, I only ran indoors, so never really matched those times, although I had a 300m PR of 36.63 somewhere in there.

[CookyMonzta]

Re Casey Combest:

Here's a good article about him from last year:

http://www.courier-journal.com/cjsports ... 367746.htm

was he that good? 6.57 60m high school record which still stands (from 3/14/99).. you be the judge..

im not sure of his 100m PR but i know he had a FAT 10.2x in the following outdoor season, and a 10.1 hand timed. fast white boy!

Speaking of runners named Casey, whatever happened to Casey Custer (11.38/23.70), who went to high school in Texas, then went to Florida State?

[Jacksf]

I had never heard of Casey Custer, but a quick internet check shows her as the Texas HS girls 100m record holder at 11.38.

That might also make her the fastest white American woman sprinter ever.
It is something discussed previously with no definitive answer....

...http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/discus ... t=innocent

[Jacksf]

Well Matt Bruno certainly has something to tell his kids one day, now that Reggie Bush has won the Heisman....

[mrbowie]

Next to reruns of Saturday Night Light, my second favorite form of late night entertainment is catching up on my honky sprinter trivia.

[Jacksf]

I enjoy it anytime....

[CookyMonzta]

I had never heard of Casey Custer, but a quick internet check shows her as the Texas HS girls 100m record holder at 11.38.

That might also make her the fastest white American woman sprinter ever.
It is something discussed previously with no definitive answer....

...http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/discus ... t=innocent

Interesting enough. How fast did Susan Shurr (U. of Texas) run the 100? I know her PR in the 200 was 23.29, probably the fastest by a white American; unless I read right, sometime in 1995 or 1996, that Ali McKnight ran 23.15.

By the way, I haven't seen this entire thread, but has anyone mentioned Victor Moore, who ranked number 1 in the high school 110H in 1983?

[Jacksf]

Never heard of Victor Moore before, but did confirm he was ranked #1 by T&FN in '83 with wins at Golden West, Golden South, and a best of 13.69.

[Jacksf]

Can't find a time for Shurr in the 100m.
However, did confirm that Ali McKnight ran a 23.13 in '96, so that is the best 200m as far as I know.
Also discovered that McKnight is a very, very attractive fitness model.

[CookyMonzta]

Can't find a time for Shurr in the 100m.
However, did confirm that Ali McKnight ran a 23.13 in '96, so that is the best 200m as far as I know.
Also discovered that McKnight is a very, very attractive fitness model.

Thanks. I thought Ali's 200 performance was somewhere in the 23.1x range. I guess I'm just too lazy to dig through 22 years of T&FN magazines.

Now, the way Jenny Adams' fortunes have been going in the 100H as of late, maybe 2006 is the year she ought to take a crack at the 200, and maybe the flat 100 as well. She should have little trouble bringing her PR (23.51, I believe) much closer to or under 23.00.

[Jacksf]

Jenny needs to take up another event....she is stagnating in the hurdles.

[CookyMonzta]

Jenny needs to take up another event....she is stagnating in the hurdles.

Indeed. You figure by now someone in this country, like Jenny, would get inspiration from someone like Ivet Lalova, and try the open sprints. The fact that she was able to run 12.63 in the 100H only leads me to conclude that maybe she is capable of running 11.20/23.00.

[jcox964]

Sammy Dirske sp from Texas was my roomie in a national HS meet in Mt Prospect Ill. He was the Texas state champ and was the fastest or so in the early 70s. ( I was a high jumper back then)Sammy D. held Sealy & local area 100 & 220 yd sprint record until some kid by the name of Eric Dickerson broke his records..
Dennis DeLoach

[CookyMonzta]

Speaking of runners named Casey, whatever happened to Casey Custer (11.38/23.70), who went to high school in Texas, then went to Florida State?

Long time since I posted anything on this thread. And since then, Jenna Prandini ran 11.34 in 2010, and there have been rumblings about a girl named Hannah Cunliffe, who ran 11.71 in 2010 and 11.92 this year.

What school is Jenna going to? It might make a difference between running 11.1x or faster, or staying in the 11.3-11.5 range by the time she graduates.

[dukehjsteve]

Here's good white sprinter trivia for you... someone tell us who John Mostyn is.

[dj]

Here's good white sprinter trivia for you... someone tell us who John Mostyn is.

1959, wind-legal 9.3 in a high school dual meet for Bergen Catholic. A day later they realized the distance was 95 yards.

[dukehjsteve]

Here's good white sprinter trivia for you... someone tell us who John Mostyn is.

1959, wind-legal 9.3 in a high school dual meet for Bergen Catholic. A day later they realized the distance was 95 yards.

Very, very good dj, but my memory says it was a bigger meet.... Englewood Invitational. And it sure got ballyhooed for a day in the newspapers !

[dj]

Yeah, you're right about it not being a dual meet. I think I'm confusing this with another Jersey sprinter with a screwy time. Jerry Krumeich? No doubt I'll wake up at 3 in the morning with the answer.

[PDJ551]

It was in fact The Englewood Memorial Meet. This meet was one of the biggest on the East Coast until the early 1960s. It was scheduled a couple of weeks before most state meets and participants from Boston to Washington D.C. would converge at Englewood, N.J.which is about 6 miles from NYC.

In those days lines on dirt tracks were lime. At the starting area, deep in the shute (remember those?) were a number of starting lines for the various events. Apparently the starter or clerk brought the kids to the wrong line. When the race finished and everyone looked at their watches and exchanged their findings with those around them the crowd went nuts. Of course no one could remember which line was used. Mostyn pulled very shortly afterwards, ending his senior season. I believe he entered a seminary shortly afterwards, never running again. Every once in a while The Record, the area's newspaper revisits the story. Mostyn was a fine sprinter, but a 9.3 was a bit quick, even for him.