Curtis Beach doing a dekatreísathlon! (gets HSR)

[gh]

13 events at the Great Southwest starting today. He's gonna do regular HS decathlon, but also throw the bigger shot and disc and run the hurdles twice!

[Marlow]

As was noted on another thread, he's a second-tier slacker. :roll:

[cigar95]

Is he doing the extra three events in an order that would permit recognition of a "full senior" decathlon mark? And if so, will we let him produce two recognized scores for the two different decathlons despite only doing seven of the events once? (One would think so.)

[gh]

that's the plan as far as I know

[TNT]

Entries only show him in the Dec & 2 relays. Edit: Oops, I get it.

[BCBaroo]

Quick. Someone go get a hammer, both 12 and 16 pounder.

[polevaultpower]

Is he doing the extra three events in an order that would permit recognition of a "full senior" decathlon mark? And if so, will we let him produce two recognized scores for the two different decathlons despite only doing seven of the events once? (One would think so.)

What about the 39" vs 42" hurdles?

[gh]

After 4 events, Beach on pace to beat both records. Was more than 10ft behind what Brigham did with the big shot, but was way better in the other three events (and will have a killer 400 to finish the day).

[Marlow]

Was more than 10ft behind what Brigham did with the big shot

That's good news. That's one of the most 'fixable' events in college, as he gets bigger and stronger.

[gh]

Is he doing the extra three events in an order that would permit recognition of a "full senior" decathlon mark? And if so, will we let him produce two recognized scores for the two different decathlons despite only doing seven of the events once? (One would think so.)

What about the 39" vs 42" hurdles?

He'll run in two different sections (first and last one assumes).

[einnod23]

I forgot about the shot, hurdle and disc specs were different! Big Duuuuh on my part!!!!!!!!

I like this kid's drive and vision. I was gonna suggest train on them specs during summer and do it next year at Duke, but this guy wants to go to Berlin NOW!

Dumb question. Has any USA high schooler ever gone to WC's or OG's? Youngest guys I could think of are Liquori (Mex City) and Steve Lewis (Seoul), but they weren't HS.

[cigar95]

Dumb question. Has any USA high schooler ever gone to WC's or OG's? Youngest guys I could think of are Liquori (Mex City) and Steve Lewis (Seoul), but they weren't HS.

Jonlam may be the most recent on the guys' side. (McTear made the team the same year but did not compete.)

Was Matthias still a prep when he won his first gold?

And of course, Ryun between his junior and senior years.

[gh]

As I recall there have been a couple of dozen (although not so many in recent years). Casey Carrigan and Rey Brown both made the '68 team between their junior and senior years.

[Marlow]

Dumb question. Has any USA high schooler ever gone to WC's or OG's? Youngest guys I could think of are Liquori (Mex City) and Steve Lewis (Seoul), but they weren't HS.

Was Matthias still a prep when he won his first gold?
And of course, Ryun between his junior and senior years.

Actually, LOTS of HSers have done it, and yes, Matthias had not yet entered college.

[gh]

Beach's first day (with Albuquerque altitude):

11.05
23-7¼
43-4½/36-1¼
6-8¼
47.96

(sorry, no meters given and I'm too lazy to run conversions at this point)

4006 first day with the big shot is a first-day record (Brigham 3937)

Beach is actually 2 points behind his first-day from Arcadia with the small shot.