A Sea Of Red

The pastor of my church ran XC on scholarship for Texas A&M back in the day. He now has 2 sons – one in 8th grade and one in 6th. This year they have finished 1st and 2nd every single race they’ve been in and they haven't even been close. They run long distance. Collin Hahn and Randy Hahn for Matoaca Middle School.

I'm all for starting early ... even with their Aggy ties.

I just did some research. These kids are legit. As long as they aren't being hammered by their coach or dad at this point, they could be on the path to McDougalness. Yes, I went there.

01LUGrad wrote:I just did some research. These kids are legit. As long as they aren't being hammered by their coach or dad at this point, they could be on the path to McDougalness. Yes, I went there.

If I’m talking T&F I’m not joking

Collin, the 8th grader, just ran a 10:07 2 mile and set a county record by 21 seconds.

Wow! Come on, manson. Work on the kids' dad for us. Invite him to an LU football game.

He followed that up yesterday with a 4:45 mile and his brother (6th grade) ran the mile in 5:06.

Sly Fox wrote:Wow! Come on, manson. Work on the kids' dad for us. Invite him to an LU football game.

Don't worry, he's well aware of Liberty and it's track program

The now 9th graders most recent mile was 4:31. Top 10 in the country for 9th graders from what I understand.

The 9th grader will be running in the New Balance Indoor Track National Championship in NYC tomorrow. He's running the freshman mile.

Collin ran a 4:33 mile yesterday in nationals and finished 11th out 48 freshman

Wow, if these are distance kids and they are turning in those types of times at the mile I can just imagine how strong they'll be in cross country.

Paging sometimes poster Josh McDougal!

It will be interesting to see how these kids develop. Their times are solid, but they have a lot of developing to do before they would be considered a blue chip type recruits. Plenty of freshmen run those times and never break 4:16 in high school. Others develop into sub 4:10 guys that any top program would be interested in.

The youngest of the 2 is now in 9th grade. He currently ranks #1 in the country in the indoor 3200

So the oldest is now in 12th grade and is on an official visit to Virginia Tech right now. Both of his older sisters went to VT.

steve hoffman wrote:It will be interesting to see how these kids develop. Their times are solid, but they have a lot of developing to do before they would be considered a blue chip type recruits. Plenty of freshmen run those times and never break 4:16 in high school. Others develop into sub 4:10 guys that any top program would be interested in.

Interesting how these times have changed very little over the years. VT gobbled up my high school buddy, Barry Monteiro. He was running a 4:09 mile at Bayside HS back in 1974. Ended up at tech on a full scholarship. After college I recruited him to the airline biz and we still work together.

jcmanson wrote:So the oldest is now in 12th grade and is on an official visit to Virginia Tech right now. Both of his older sisters went to VT.

Personally, I would leave the church if pastor did not send his kids to LU, no excuse.

The oldest just committed to Virginia Tech