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brianw@.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Brian Williams) writes:
> > |> Now, I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Gary Bjorklund (sp)
> > |> ran under 4 minutes in high school in the '69-'70 season.
> > 
> > If he did, he joins Jim Ryun and Marty Liquori as the only US preps to
> > break 4 minutes, and they did it in the early to mid '60s.  Perhaps that
> > tells you something about "national class" for high schoolers...
> 
> >I'm sure someone will eventually answer this correctly, but I thought
> >the only three high schoolers to break 4 were Ryun, Liquori, and
> >a guy named Tim Danielson (Danielsen?) from San Diego.
> 
> Yes yes yes. Tim Danielson ran  sub 4 for Chula Vista High in San Diego County
> in the mid-late 1960's. He went on to San Diego State thereafter but
> was plagued by injuries.
> Ryun and Liquori were the other two to run sub-four in high school.
> **side note- Thom Hunt from Patrick Henry High in San Diego ran
>              4:01 indoors his senior year in high school.
> 
> Brian.
> 
> 
> 
Actually, Hunt ran 4:02.7--outstanding anyway.  Danielson & Liquouri were
pulled thru 4 minutes by world class fields, Ryun was able to run under 4
on his own, on a dirt track.

Of course, the mile is no longer an official distance at the high school
level--1600 meters is.  Very weird--this is what happens when committees
make decisions.  What happens is a high school kid runs 3:58.4 or so for
1600?  Did he run a 4 min mile?