The Lions' Pride

Got to watch Gehret at Altoona a couple times. Kid is unreal fast.

One thing I like about this site is that while it is mostly football, 247 covers and others talk about other PSU sports some. Love getting the extra coverage. And thanks guys for updating and providing these other links. Great to see PSU's other outstanding athletes that don't get as much coverage.

Gehret was the one guy that Alex Kenney could never beat in high school. I worked with a guy who is Brady's cousin and he said that he Kenney was kind of a rival of his.

The kid is a blur.

I think this all the time. Such a complete board.

Brady took 6th

True, and Kenney never ran the 400. He was a 60 m and 100 m guy who ran the 200 "for fun". Totally different sprinters.

Brady was one of the few kids that resisted going against what genetics dictated. So many young sprinters want to run the 100 because it is a glamour event, and quite honestly, it's easier. I was one of them. I resisted running the 400 even in college, when genetically it was my best event(actually it would have been decathlon, but we are talking running). I couldn't get it out of my head that I was a 100M guy. Brady's HS coach had the foresight and fortitude to not cave to one of his stars and steered him toward the events he would be most successful in. This same coach stood his ground with AJ Alexander Alfonso Lewis(Ohio FB player)and booted them from the team in a year they were contending for the state title.

As did I. 400 was by far my best event, but I hated running it. Easily could have gone to states in it, but was to damn stubborn and didn't want to run it. Unfortunately my coach didn't make me. One of those things I look back on now and regret.

I found my best event. Unfortunately, it got cancelled when I was in my prime The Phi Psi 500. Recently, I've found sort of an equivalent, the Beer Mile. I'm thinking of coming out of retirement and training to take a shot a a top ten world ranking in the 69+ (Super Grand Hash Masters) category.

Men finish 4th in the 4x400 -- Florida just too good. Great job Nittany Lions! You're all back next year -- now you have a clear goal.

Baseball in the fall, indoor track in the winter, baseball in the spring. There's time for serious track and baseball (plus indoor track gets you out of winter baseball workouts at 6 am!). And 21'+ for a first effort with no training is very impressive. I was a 23 foot long jumper but I'm not sure I would have gone over 21 under those circumstances, probably not.

And I still have nightmares about running the 400, hated that race. The worst memory I have was being put into the 4x400 as a freshman at the last minute for the conference championships. This was after heats and finals for the 60 and the 300, long jump and 4x200. I was gliding on adrenaline for the first 250. The last 150 was a steady decent into hell.

Excellent point. Fortunately I never had to deal with that since I was playing baseball during outdoor season. Actually, anything 400 and over would count as brutal to me. My track coach in high school always tried to get me to run the 800 because I had good natural endurance to go along with sprinter speed. But he had 800 runners do distance runs a couple times a week. I did one distance run and vowed to make every excuse in the book to never do one again. I hate running. I love to compete and sprint, but I hate jogging, bores the absolute crap out of me.