Alas my hurdler got hurt and missed five weeks of training. She was 7th in the regional final for the 100H. So the Coffman girls have not gotten all events covered. Because of this thread I was inspired to compile our complete history of state meet qualifiers. I think we have them all. Had to spend a bunch of time with microfilm. We did notice that we had a girl qualify in 1976 and 1977 in the 80 hurdles.
I knew you were without a 100 Hurdler. My records also show I'm still without a long jumper for your girls, but I do not have the full compliment of regional results in my files, especially from Region 3. I take it Coffman has had a girl qualify to state in the long jump. If so, when did that occur? I also have the boys lacking state qualifiers in those same 2 events. I show the original Dublin HS with a boy qualifier in the LJ. Did all of the original Dublin HS's history get passed on to Coffman, or did Coffman start from scratch when Scioto opened? :help:
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I've got all our state qualifiers - wish to heaven I knew how all of them performed and placed at state. It doesn't take that long if you know the dates of the regional and/or the state meet. Our local papers always did good lists of all the area's qualifiers the day before the state meet.
If you happen upon any complete state prelim results during your expedition, please let me know. I'm dying to fill in the blanks on some people who did not make it to finals.
I also have lists of all of our sectional/district champions, district/regional champions, All-Ohioans (a.k.a. state scorers), State placers sorted by number of medals earned, and I'm currently assembling a list of all of our district/regional qualifiers with about 10-15 years left to check. I may get that list completed with names and events, but I have no chance of tracking down all of their performances.
Why that district/regional qualifier list, you ask? We have certain events in which we're not traditionally strong, so if an athlete qualifies to regionals in that event, I'd like to be able to tell him or her how long it has been since we last qualified anyone in that particular event. It could motivate some kids to help us improve in those events to make us a more complete team or at least a better dual meet team.
We never had anyone qualify in any of the unusual events that were originally part of the girls meet program, but we had a few boys excel at the 180yd low hurdles back in the day. We should've been great at the 880 medley relay. We had 2 excellent girls in the 220/440, but it would appear we didn't pursue that event too much.
Incidentally, the fairly large public school in my town has only seen its mile/1600 record improved ONCE IN THE PAST 100 YEARS! A boy ran a 4:38.xx mile in 1916, the record was lowered to 4:33.9 at the '65 sectional meet, and it hasn't improved since, not even at the shorter 1600m distance! Additionally, my county's shot put record has only been improved once in the past 50 years! The kid who set it in the late '60s ended up being a Pro Football Hall of Famer, Dan Dierdorf.