
Yesterday, we dug down into the numbers to find an answer to a simple question.
Who is the most versatile boys sprinter in the country?
Based on our findings, we found an answer to that question. Now we're back to answer the second half of the equation: Which girls sprinter is the most versatile?
This indoor season, in 2019, we decided to figure out who's been the country's top overall sprint talent so far.
A couple rules.
- To be fair, you can't count whether an athlete has been on a record breaking relay team, because a sprinter is part of a unit, and the overall success of a team is in part due to that team's overall effort
- To evaluate an athlete's overall impact in track and field, we have to evaluate how that athlete stands among his best events overall. And in this case, we decided to look at the nation's top athletes at 60m, 200m and 400m.
A few athletes didn't make the cut for obvious reasons: They didn't have performances in all three events in 2019. So that axes sprinters like Ta...