Michael Carter's Senior Year

[Marquis]

Can anyone recap one of the all time best seasons by a high schooler?

[tafnut]

yeah it's page 10 and 11 of the November 1979 Track & Field News. he went
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81'3.5
with the 12 and
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67'9
with the 16
and a 204'8 HS and 177'2 Int'l Discus

[sl]

I heard, second-hand, that John Brenner, who was competing in the shot that day at GWI and later made the '87 World Champs team before a knee injury ended his career, said that one thing stood out immediately as he watched Carter's HSR throw: he'd never seen a shot fly that HIGH.

Makes sense in terms of physics, but I've always liked that picture of what it must have been like to see an 81-footer.