NB Nationals Boys Preview From 100m To 5K

Boys 2-Mile

Event Info: Saturday 6/20/2015 - 5:40 PM

State of the Action

It would seem Ben Veatch would have a healthy, 3-second gap on the field. His 8:56.51 may have gotten aid from the atmosphere at Arcadia, so it will be up to him if he can repeat. Only two guys have broken 9-mins in the field, and Jack Salisbury had the Loucks field to pull him. He'll be looking to push the pace from the get go, knowing how to be competitive in that kind of race. Carter Blunt is right at 9:00, and puts him in contention for the title along with fellow Texan in Alex Rogers (who defeated Blunt for the Texas Relays title). Virginia 6A state champ Alex Corbett was an All-American indoors in the two mile. The slower top end speed of the field puts everyone's name into contention, so this will be a very close race.

Top Athletes - Overall

Event 11  Boys 2 Mile Run Championship
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    National:  8:29.46  6/4/2011    Lukas Verzbicas, Sandburg, Orland Park,IL  
        Meet:  8:34.40  6/20/2008   German Fernandez, Riverbank, CA            
    Freshman:  8:53.98  6/13/2009   Lukas Verzbicas, LincolnWay,New Lenox,IL   
   Sophomore:  8:50.6h  6/11/1974   Eric Hulst, Laguna Beach, CA               
      Junior:  8:44.06  6/18/2010   Joe Rosa, WWP North, Plainsboro,NJ         
      Junior:  8:41.10  5/5/2000    Dathan Ritzenhein (m), Rockford, MI        
      Senior:  8:29.46  6/4/2011    Lukas Verzbicas, Sandburg, Orland Park,IL  
           Name                        Year School                                
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  1   4780 Blunt, Carter                 16 McKinney, TX                
  2   2201 Bouthillette, Matt            16 North Providence            
  3   4675 Burdette, Colin               15 Hilliard, OH                
  4   2138 Corbett, Alex                 15 Burke, VA                   
  5   1481 Dahl, Nick                    17 Philadelphia, PA            
  6   2487 Deokar, Viraj                 16 Acton, MA                   
  7   3829 Hall, Philip                  15 Hope Mills, NC              
  8   4273 Jones, Leland                 15 Summit, NJ                  
  9   5043 Jordan, Andrew                16 Pataskala, OH               
 10   1863 Mau, Kyle                     15 Hudson, OH                  
 11   4757 Meade, Luke                   16 Bluff City, TN              
 12     53 Murphy, Conor                 15 Millstone Townsh            
 13    964 Noonan, Armstrong             16 Darien, CT                  
 14   3499 Pompilj, Marco                15 New York, NY                
 15   4782 Rogers, Alex                  15 New Braunfels, T            
 16   2125 Salisbury, Jack               16 Rumford, RI                 
 17   1779 Shuley, Ethan                 16 Ft Thomas, KY               
 18   2438 Singer, Mikey                 15 Eldersburg, MD              
 19    462 van_der_Els, Eric             16 Norwalk, CT                 
 20    621 Veatch, Ben                   16 Carmel, IN