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Javman, Courtesy of the the Westlake Public Library and the 1927 Dover Twp. yearbook, the name you are looking for is Andrew Grega. Quite an athlete, 4 year participant in football, track, and baseball, with 2 years of basketball thrown in as well.

Our coach was a western roll jumper from what I remember, but he definitely taught our athlete to straddle. It's been almost 37 years now, so there is that.

Javman... as a young, first year head track coach at a rural school back in the late 80s, we had an athlete with a tremendous vertical. The problem was, he couldn't bend his back enough to flop (he actually could scissor-jump higher). I dug up some old coaching books at the library, and tried -...

Surprised no one has mentioned this. Outstanding race for the senior and Ohio State D. 1 individual Champion. https://nxn.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?do=title&title_id=187&event_id=13 Surreal race from Jane Hedengren of Timpview, Utah. Breaks Kaitlyn Touhy's course record on a wet day, and...

This year is 40 for me, and I remember Ed coaching when I was in high school - and he wasn't young then...:)

I've been among the polling coaches in the past (pre-milesplit) era. The hard part is getting 12 people to participate; then finding 12 people that pay close enough attention to who has raced who in the past week, Etc. (as opposed to just looking at Milesplit rankings and voting).

The Ohio Wesleyan Relays is where the the Comets came from. Legendary area coach Jack Wilhelm (Amherst, South Amherst, LCCC, and the longtime NEO District XC Meet director) took kids to the Wesleyan meet in 1954, then started the Comet Relays in 1955. 68 editions later, we hope he - and Coach...

The Comet Relays (Amherst) has 3 person field event relays. https://cometrelays.com/ https://oh.milesplit.com/meets/607599-amherst-comet-relays-2024

I would have figured this to be a major topic of conversation after it was released by our coaches association on Tuesday. Proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17O_t9MQE0UDq4eAq4I8w1g2GD4vjFWIB6gCnMsj9W1M/edit Schedules...

You should have looked at the women's list Off the top of my head, I saw ex-Cincy St. Ursula state champ Annie Heffernan, former Toledo Notre Dame runner Stephanie Sherman, ex Dublin Scioto athlete Sakiko Minagawa, and - have to rep the alma mater here - former UAHS runner Kaitlyn Peale all...

OSU isn't the only 9 lane track. Our high school (a district/regional site) has 9 lanes, as does Findlay High School (also a regional site). I'm sure there are a couple of others. Not saying either could host a state meet, just that OSU doesn't have a monopoly on 9 lane tracks. No doubt, there...

Agreed. ‭The kids need the space. Also, I would add from a spectator's perspective, when you have people saving the few spots along the fence so a family can get a GLIMPSE of their athlete for a second or two (which we saw happening Sat.)... you have a course problem. Absolutely my biggest...

I would put Magnificat's 2009 team in the conversation for the girl's best also. 5 in the top 21 overall to score 28 points in winning the Division 1 title, then 5th at NXN that year.

Psycho_dad... We were there for the LCCC races immediately after yours. Our results were coming up (with the scores adjusting for each athlete) as our kids were crossing the line. My wife showed me our score on her phone within a minute of our #7 finishing Saturday. I have no idea why there...

JAVMAN83, our freshman record at Steele is 9:30.7 by Jeff Wilhelm (District Meet, 1974)