White HS sprinters trivia

[Jacksf]

Who are the best white HS sprinters of recent times?
I am not an expert on HS track, but some names come to mind....

Casey Combest
Forest Beatty
Wayne Johnson
Matt Bruno
Chip Rish
Anthony Tufariello
Jeremy Wariner

Any others come to mind?

[basehead617]

casey combest, in terms of potential

[jhc68]

Forest Beatty was a real race horse. Four decades ago he was peerless at 200 meters. A couple of years later Steve Caminiti (best known as a hurdler)and Freddie Kuller were very quick. Unfortunately for them there were a couple of other kids at the California State Meet named Hines and McCollough.

[bigfish]

Darly Newman of the Fresno area. Think he was the last white guy to defeat Bob Hayes.

[highjumpfan]

Joe Galeano, great hurdler from Long Island.

[jhc68]

Newman was cool ! Anyone know what became of the guy?

[satch400]

good trivia question. Last pale sprinter to hold national HS record? In 400 may be DAVE MILLS , Lakewood Ohio.Did FORREST BEATTY have 2oo record? 100 m , no idea, must have been long ago.

[Jacksf]

I think anthony Tufariello may have held the 400m record back when he was running in the late 70's....but not sure.
I know Casey Combest holds the 60m indoor HS record, and I think Beatty tied the HS 100y dash record.
Someone else may be able to verify all this.

[highjumpsteve]

>good trivia question. Last pale sprinter to hold national HS record? In 400 may
>be DAVE MILLS , Lakewood Ohio.Did FORREST BEATTY have 2oo record? 100 m , no
>idea, must have been long ago.

Beaty ( let's all spell it right, please) ran 20.2 for 220 on the straight which I do believe was a new HS record.

[BillVol]

Was Combest that good? And why did he not realize his potential? Injury?

[Bigblue86]

Joe Galeno was a good sprinter, a great hurdler, and a darn good high jumper. It's too bad his screwed up his life the way he did.

[Jacksf]

When was he in high school?
WHat do you mean about him screwing up his life?

[Jacksf]

re: Casey Combest

Apparently he couldn't adjust to being away from home. I think his grades weren't good enough for a major university, so he went to a Junior College in the south, and then dropped out and went home and got a job.
This is only a few years ago. I think he's about 22yrs. old. There was talk of a comeback last indoor season, but I am only aware of him running one race last year.
What a shame......

[satch400]

from INDY, Clyde PEACH.

[basehead617]

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!

[gh]

From the couple of times I saw him run, looked like the kind of guy who was more "quick" than "fast" and would have to do a lot of intense strength training to be a good 100m guy. Super at 60 indoors, but already fading at that distance.

[jwetter]

Forest Beaty ran 9.4 100 yard dash in addition to his 20.2 straightaway 220 yard dash as an underclassman at Glendale Hoover. If I'm not mistaken Beaty won the Calfifornia State CIF 100 yard dash one year and the 220 yard dash two years in the mid-60's. The Foothill League, which included Glendale Hoover, had an outstanding group of sprinters when Beaty was there. Another white sprinter in the league was Ralph Turner of John Burroughs H.S. in Burbank. Turner ran 9.5 and also 20.6 when Beaty ran his 20.2. If I recall correctly there was also still another very good white sprinter that year from either Burbank H.S. or Glendale H.S. It was in the Foothill League Championships that one year in the early or mid 60's that these three plus a couple of sprinters from John Muir H.S. in Pasadena or Pasadena H.S. all ran 9.6 or better and 21.1 or better. Not bad for one little 7 team league. For those of you who aren't familiar with it John Muir has had a slew of California State Chapmpion sprinters.

Forest Beaty went on to run at the University of California in Berkeley and although a good collegiate sprinter he never quite lived up to his H.S. accomplishments. He graduated from Cal, went to medical school and about 6-7 years ago I read an article about him being a physician in the East Bay Area treating some group of unfortunates (I don't recall whether they were poor, HIV or what) on a humanitarian basis. He went from being a very good sprinter to a very good humanitarian physician. He surely has my respect.

[mike renfro]

Matt Bruno won the CA HS 100 & 200 a couple years ago. He is a journeyman, but had some HS sucess.

[Bigblue86]

Joe Galeno graduated from HS in 1987. I saw him at the 1993 Empire State Games in Rochester, NY. His old HS coach was talking with mine and made refrences to a drug problem he had following HS.

[basehead617]

drugs like coke/heroin drugs or steroids?

[Jacksf]

Does anybody know anything about Wayne Johnson?

I believe he won the Texas State 5A 100 and 200 meter races in 1978.
I know he ran a 9.3 100y and 20.78 200m in high school. Obviously he had a lot of potential, but I'm not sure that he ever went to college, or even raced again.

[Bigblue86]

Recreational drugs, not performance enhancing.

[mdobbins]

>Does anybody know anything about Wayne Johnson?

I believe he won the Texas
>State 5A 100 and 200 meter races in 1978.
I know he ran a 9.3 100y and 20.78
>200m in high school. Obviously he had a lot of potential, but I'm not sure
>that he ever went to college, or even raced again.

I'm pretty sure that Wayne went to UT. I was running for LSU when we recruited him and some of his Richardson HS teammates. I still remember seeing him anchor the indoor mile relay, jogging the first 220 and then reeling in the field on the second lap. I believe he got injured his frosh year in Austin.

[Kurt Francis]

Dave Mills evidently resides in the Kettering, Ohio area now. Of course, he's not fast anymore given that he's about 65 now! He was damned fast...440yd in 46.6 on the old 2-straightaway, 1-turn track at Ohio State...all on cinder.

[Jacksf]

Here's someone that might need to be added to the list....I see that a kid from Iowa, Andy Brodel, has a 10.34 this year. Pretty damn fast for a HSer.

[bhartson]

Wayne went to college, the University of Texas-Austin and his primary sport was football, a receiver but didn't have much success on the field. He still ran track during his college career, but looked like a beefed up footballer, running track.

[deloach]

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)
Dennis DeLoach

[Jacksf]

Yes, I had seen that he was the Texas HS champ and ran some very fast times in HS. I think there is a meet named after him in Texas.
Did he continue his sprint career at college?

[oldvaulter]

Forest
>Beaty went on to run at the University of California in Berkeley and although a
>good collegiate sprinter he never quite lived up to his H.S. accomplishments.
>He graduated from Cal, went to medical school and about 6-7 years ago I read an
>article about him being a physician in the East Bay Area treating some group of
>unfortunates (I don't recall whether they were poor, HIV or what) on a
>humanitarian basis. He went from being a very good sprinter to a very good
>humanitarian physician. He surely has my respect.

Thanks for the update on Forest Beaty, a great guy and one of my favorite athletes when I was in high school. I saw his 20.2 race (incredible). It was over 220 yards (about .1 longer than 200m), on a straightaway, on dirt. I also knew him later at UC Berkeley. In his senior year at Glendale Hoover, 1962, his biggest challenger in Southern Calfornia was another super-fast white guy, Larry Sapp of Bonita (LaVerne), California.

[deloach]

I didn't see him at the Golden West or the National Junior's meet in the next weeks , don't know where he went...

[no one]

mmmm - did you Bay Area guys forget Dave Masters? ... if it weren't a guy named Mel Gray.

Also seems like the 60-70s era in So Cal had a number of 9.5 type guys. HS I went to had a soph run 9.6 only to fade into the seamier side of life - as early as his jr. yr. HS

[Jefferson Buffalo]

>mmmm - did you Bay Area guys forget Dave Masters? ... if it weren't a guy named Mel Gray.<<

Mel Gray? Now there's a guy who's obviously neither Black nor White.

[KeepMoving]

If they got a really good sun tan, would they go faster? Just wondering what the laws were in the People's Republic of Track and Field News...

[satch400]

>If they got a really good sun tan, would they go faster? Just wondering what
>the laws were in the People's Republic of Track and Field News...

SATCH doubts tan makes u faster but have noticed that since MICHAEL JACKSON got pale his dancing stinks!

[Pego]

At the moment, quality of his dancing is the least of his problems.