Just throwing out some interesting stats looking at the U.S. leaders in various events so far in the new year.
PSU's Bernard Bennent-Green (Cheltenham alumn) has run 46.61 so far indoors putting him in the top 5 in the nation for the event. He currently sits ahead of world championship participant David Verburg of George Mason and Brycen Spratling of Pitt (one of the best 500m runners in US history indoors) among various other top 20 performers. Neil Brady of Arkansas leads the US with his 46.36 on January 17th, although Arman Hall ran what was technically the fastest mark at an oversized track in Kentucky (45.84).
In Seattle, Luke Lefebure ran an oversized track time of 1:18.39 in a Stanford singlet. That time would be 5th on the current US leader mark if had been run on a banked track rather than a 300m one. Keep in mind the only guys with faster times are 4 professionals including 600m American Record holder Erik Sowinski and Saucony's poster boy Duane Soloman who have both run 1:16. Not bad company. The New Balance games 600m fielded most of the top 10 performers on the list.
PSU currently has the #1 and #2 times in the USA right now thanks to Brandon Kidder (1:48.34) and Zavon Watkins (1:49.47). Quite the mid distance program over there. Ryan Hill's altitude mark throws him up there among the leaders. Counting oversized track marks, Sean Obinwa is the leader from Florida (1:48.20). Freshman Andres Arroyo (1:47/4:04 last year) ran 1:49.22 in his NCAA 800 debut. The track at Lexington that gave way for both of these marks helped 6 Americans break 1:50. Only 3 total have done it on 200m tracks (all coming at PSU).
PA's own Ned Willig has found a nice little pocket in the 1k at the college level. He dropped a 2:22.35 in his most recent race for the win at BU (where Rupp has taken up his assault on records). The time puts Willig #4 in the nation behind 3 times from PSU's 1k race which was won by Robby Creese in the US #1 time of 2:20.65. Ahmad Bile and Billy Ledder of GTown each ran 2:21 in that race. Tyler Mulder, 1:44 man from OTC ran essentially a solo effort of 2:21 on an oversized track in Seattle. He was followed by Izaic Yorks the sophomore from Washington and Marco Bertollotti and Mike Atchoo of Stanford. Jeremy Rae of Notre Dame, at his home track, ran a 2:22 as well, making all four of the collegians sitting at 2:22. PA's Owen Dawson ran 2:22.94 at PSU, a top 10 time currently in the USA (again excluding oversized marks).
PA's Craig Miller has been doing work in the mile! His 3:57 is currently US #2 just ahead of new Heps record holder Will Geoghegan of Dartmouth (3:58.04). Ryan Hill beat out Lopez Lomong in the mile out in Albuquerque as part of a double win and the altitude mark of 3:59.00 puts him in the top 10. Garrett Heath leads all milers with his 3:54.59 at New Balance.Worth noting: Dartmouth has 3 guys at 4:01 or faster, all from the USA. Indoors. In January.
A fast 3k at BU aided Travis Mahoney, Temple alumn and top steeplechaser, to a 7:52 3k opener. It is only behind Rupp's 3k en route and Bernard Lagat's time in Glasgow (7:34 and 7:49 respectively). Dan Lowry, PA alumn from LaSalle, ran 8:00 which puts him among the US top 10. If you include oversized tracks Ben Blankenship and Dan Quigley of OTC have marks of 7:55 and 8:01 that would place them among the top 10.
5k: Rupp 13:01. That's about all that really means anything. Maksim Korolev of Harvard ran a sick race but is a distant 2nd at 13:42.56. At #3 is PA's own Jim Spisak! 13:43 from the Duquesne man.
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