His splits were:
1:04.89(1:04.89) 2:12.71(1:07.83) 3:20.18(1:07.47) 4:27.74(1:07.57) 5:39.14(1:11.41)
6:56.30(1:17.16) 8:12.73(1:16.44) 9:16.16(1:03.44)
His 3000m time was 8:43.97
National: N 8:34.40 6/20/2008 German Fernandez, Riverbank
Meet: M 8:34.40 6/20/2008 German Fernandez, Riverbank
Freshman: F 8:53.98 6/13/2009 Lukas Verzbicas, Lincoln Wa
Freshman: F 9:01.68
Sophomore: O 8:50.6h 1974 Eric Hulst, Laguna Beach, C
Junior: J 8:41.10 2000 Dathan Ritzenhein (3200), R
Junior: J 8:44.9h 1975 Eric Hulst, Laguna Beach, C
Name Year School Finals
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Finals
1 Trevor Dunbar 09 Kodiak, AK 8:49.79O
2 Zachary Wills 11 Mason, OH 8:55.18F
3 Lukas Verzbicas 12 New Lenox, IL 8:55.58F
4 Graham Bazell 09 Columbia, MD 8:56.00F
5 Jeff Thode 09 Schaumburg, IL 8:57.36F
6 Wes Rickman 09 Falcon, CO 8:57.84F
7 Shane Moskowitz 10 Bremerton, WA 8:58.86F
8 Thomas Porter 09 Fredericksburg, VA 8:59.08F
9 Nick Happe 09 St. Charles, MO 9:02.47
10 Andrew Springer 09 Westerly, RI 9:02.93
11 Bobby Andrews 09 Wading River, NY 9:12.47
12 Joe Rosa 11 Plainsboro, NJ 9:12.91
13 Tyler Stutzman 09 Charlottesville, VA 9:14.71
14 Christopher Schwartz 09 Bakersfield, CA 9:16.16
15 Ben Furcht 09 Haverford, PA 9:16.27
16 Kirubel Erassa 10 Grayson, GA 9:17.29
17 Matthew Sonnenfeldt 09 Knoxville, TN 9:17.66
18 Clint McKelvey 10 Maryville, TN 9:19.92
19 Matthew Estlund 09 St. Charles, MO 9:22.43
20 Walter Schafer 10 Centennial, CO 9:24.14
21 Scott Anderson 09 West Falls, NY 9:25.11
22 Dylan Sorensen 09 Zionsville TC 9:25.36
23 Nohe Lema 09 San Jose, CA 9:25.42
24 Dominick Robinson 09 Gillette, WY 9:26.74
25 Ben Veilleux 09 Berryville, VA 9:29.70
26 Taro Shigenobu 09 Ridgewood, NJ 9:33.40
27 Joey Whelan 09 hamburg, NY 9:33.76
28 Sherod Hardt 10 Queen Creek, AZ 9:34.32
29 David Forward 10 Medford, NJ 9:41.43
30 Logan Rosenberg 09 Carmel, IN 9:41.86
31 Phil Fairleigh 10 Cary, IL 9:50.66
32 Dave Oster 10 Verona, NJ 10:06.03
33 George Galasso 09 Holmdel, NJ 10:25.45
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Schwartz took to the track much later in the event, but his performance was just as monumental in the 3,200-meter race. He ran a personal-best 8:51.60, the third-best high school time in the nation this year, to win an extremely fast race in which seven runners clocked sub-9:00 times.
ReplyDeleteAccording to DyeStat's list, seven of the top 13 times in the event came in that race. And Schwartz beat them all, out-kicking Collin Jarvis of Rancho Buena Vista by a couple of seconds. Schwartz's time was three-tenths of a second behind the leading national time of the year.
"It was fun," said Schwartz, who was the 2007 CIF Cross Country Division I state champion. "I was a little scared because I didn't know what to expect, but I trusted in myself and took off."
Each athlete's story had a few twists and turns before they reached the state finals.
Meanwhile, Schwartz was riding his own roller coaster of a year. A foster child who was abandoned as a youth by his mother at a mental hospital, Schwartz committed to Cal Poly late in the year after meeting all academic requirements, and then ran his two best races of the season at the section meet (9:20.22) and the state final.
The section effort was Schwartz's best time of the year to that point, partly because he hadn't run against much top competition and partly because he thrives on being pushed.
"I just think he wants it more than anybody," said Foothill track coach Arron Rietz, who said the school's distance coach, Paul Contreras, also deserves credit for his speed work with Schwartz.
He certainly wanted it more than anyone at state, where Schwartz came in as an underdog -- his times didn't look good on paper -- but said he was buoyed by that fact.
"I was kind of happy that there was no pressure on me to win," he said. "It was a relaxing race."