Houston high school runner Matthew Boling breaks national record in 100-meter dash
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Ryan Young
Houston high school sprinter Matthew Boling has garnered immense national attention on the track in recent months.
On Saturday, the 18-year-old took that to a new level.
Boling ran the 100-meter dash at the Texas UIL state track and field championships at the University of Texas in Austin in just 10.13 seconds — breaking a 29-year-old national record.
The Strake Jesuit high school senior made headlines earlier this month after his performance at the Texas Region III-6A track meet when he ran the 100-meter dash in just 9.98 seconds — which marked the fastest all-conditions mark ever recorded by a high school sprinter. Boling was helped by a tailwind of just more than twice the legal limit at that meet, however.
He backed that up on Saturday, though, with his wind-legal time still setting the new national record — and he still thinks he can go faster.
“Honestly when I looked at the race before us and saw that the wind was 1.3, I was like 'Oh, I'm excited,’” Boling said, via the Houston Chronicle. “Because after last week, everyone was like 'Oh, the wind wasn't legal' and stuff like that. So I was like 'Alright, I'll just drop a fast time today.’”
The Georgia signee won the long jump earlier on Saturday, too, at 25 feet and 4.5 inches in just two jumps. He currently holds the Texas record at 26-3.5, which is the seventh-best distance in high school track and field history.
"I wasn't aiming for any big records," Boling said, via the Houston Chronicle. "Like in the long jump I only took two jumps because I just wanted to be rested because I had so many events today. I just had to do my job and get as many points for the team as possible."
Boling, naturally, drew plenty of eyes at the meet on Saturday. He even had a police escort with him as he walked around the stadium.
That attention, he said, actually pushes him.
And at the rate he’s going, that’s all but certain to be a good thing.
“I look up and whenever I see the crowd get up to start videoing and watching, it definitely gets me hyped,” Boling said, via the Houston Chronicle. “That's what I love about the 100. Everyone comes to watch it and it's really fun. I got out well and I was just happy with it and the build-up and anticipation was a lot of adrenaline, but it was really fun.”
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Abby Steiner starting to impress, . . . not often you see the back half of a 100m sprint dominated like this. . . . Looking forward to seeing her develop her break out of the blocks. . . From the moment she gets her head steadied she's hitting world-class sprinter speed.
I just checked into the all-time numbers and she'll need to shave off nearly a full second to beat Flo Jo's 200m and a half second to match Flo Jo's 100m.
There are a couple girls from Jamaica right now, Thompson-Herah and Fraser-Pryce, who will likely be stiff competition for Steiner over the next few years. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Abby Steiner starting to impress, . . . not often you see the back half of a 100m sprint dominated like this. . . . Looking forward to seeing her develop her break out of the blocks. . . From the moment she gets her head steadied she's hitting world-class sprinter speed.
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Abby Steiner starting to impress, . . . not often you see the back half of a 100m sprint dominated like this. . . . Looking forward to seeing her develop her break out of the blocks. . . From the moment she gets her head steadied she's hitting world-class sprinter speed.
:-) Watch the comeback Abby Steiner lays on the field in the 3rd leg of this 4x400 relay. She's at least 25-30 meters back when she gets the baton. She gets it at the 1:46 mark if you want to jump forward.
She also just smoked the college 200m record. Her time ranked 20th all-time, so she's still in college and she's running times that could get her on an Olympic podium. Must be that extra muscle white girls have in their hamstrings...
Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks: :-) Watch the comeback Abby Steiner lays on the field in the 3rd leg of this 4x400 relay. She's at least 25-30 meters back when she gets the baton. She gets it at the 1:46 mark if you want to jump forward.
She also just smoked the college 200m record. Her time ranked 20th all-time, so she's still in college and she's running times that could get her on an Olympic podium. Must be that extra muscle white girls have in their hamstrings...
White girl? Ubeja would be rolling in his grave. If he had one. But he doesn’t because he got eaten by a coyote and shit out all over the woods. RIP [Reply]
Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks: :-) Watch the comeback Abby Steiner lays on the field in the 3rd leg of this 4x400 relay. She's at least 25-30 meters back when she gets the baton. She gets it at the 1:46 mark if you want to jump forward.
Why is she running the third leg? I thought the fastest person was usually the anchor.
Maybe the strategy is to demoralize the other teams' anchor runners since they're going to be behind so far when they start. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Why is she running the third leg? I thought the fastest person was usually the anchor.
Maybe the strategy is to demoralize the other teams' anchor runners since they're going to be behind so far when they start.
Wondered that too. All I know is that if you told someone halfway through the first turn that she'd catch and pass all the competition by halfway through the next turn they'd think you were nuts. Toward the end of that back straight it was like she got shot out of a cannon. Her turnover rate is astounding, like some kind of super robotics. [Reply]
Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks:
Wondered that too. All I know is that if you told someone halfway through the first turn that she'd catch and pass all the competition by halfway through the next turn they'd think you were nuts. Toward the end of that back straight it was like she got shot out of a cannon. Her turnover rate is astounding, like some kind of super robotics.
Yeah, I was watching her cadence as she passed the third place woman. She somehow combines very long strides with a very fast cadence. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Yeah, I was watching her cadence as she passed the third place woman. She somehow combines very long strides with a very fast cadence.
Stuff like this gets me interested in the sport. I'll check her out in the Olympics.
I was a little kid during the Frank Shorter Marathon era when it seemed like the US had a lot of great runners. That makes it much more interesting than watching a bunch of Ethiopians or Kenyans or East Germans or Jamaicans. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Stuff like this gets me interested in the sport. I'll check her out in the Olympics.
I was a little kid during the Frank Shorter Marathon era when it seemed like the US had a lot of great runners. That makes it much more interesting than watching a bunch of Ethiopians or Kenyans or East Germans or Jamaicans.
I was never a great runner [though I did run the fastest 400 in all of PhsEd classes sophomore year, . . but only like 10% of the class even attempted the 400 as a qualifying grade marker], but I grew up appreciating running because; 1) my sis ran track, and more importantly 2) I grew up with the kids of the Falcon family. Joe Falcon is legendary in cross country, . . . he once [IIRC] ran a sub-22-23 minute FIVE MILE, and the soccer team ran with the cross-country team in summer training, and that fall [after Joe's time, when his little brother was on the team], when it came to state qualifying, they took the top 7, and our school placed all qualifying places except 3rd, ie, 1st and 2nd and 4th through 7th].
