Perhaps the Mississippi High School Activities Association should pay attention to how they do things in Texas. Exhibit 1: Texas high school sophomore Beth Leachman. KSAT reported:
Boerne Champion sophomore Elizabeth Leachman took second place in the one-mile race at the Nike Outdoor Nationals on Saturday, in preparation for the U.S. Olympic Trials that are taking place this week. Leachman ran a person-best 4:44.06 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. Randolph High School junior Sophia Bendet also ran and placed third just behind Leachman, with a time of 4:44.16. Leachman — whose best races are said to be longer races, such as the 3,200-meter and 5,000-meter — has set multiple previous records. She will be the lone high school student attempting to make the U.S. Olympic team. Leachman will next compete in the U.S. Olympic Trials in the 5000-meter run at approximately 8:22 p.m. central time on Friday, June 21. If Leachman qualifies for the finals, she is expected to race just three days later, at approximately 9:09 p.m. central time on Monday, June 24.
Read that again. A Texas high school sophomore placed second in a national track competition. Surely she is not allowed to participate in Texas high school track meets as would be the case in Mississippi, right? Wrong. Keep reading the article:
Last month, Leachman captured the gold medals in the 1600-meter and 3200-meter runs at the UIL State Track & Field Meet in Austin, but that was hardly her biggest achievement at Mike A. Myers Stadium. Leachman was invited to compete in the women’s 5000-meter run against largely collegiate runners at the 96th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays on March 28 — and won. She checked in with the top time of 15:25.27, nearly 35 full seconds ahead of West Texas A&M’s Florance Uwajeneza (16:00.14) and more than 39 seconds faster than Texas’ Eva Jess (16:04.83). Her 15:25.27 outdoor time there set a new outdoor high school record. Article
The University Interscholastic League (UIL) is the Texas equivalent of MHSAA. Leachman excelled in the high school championship meet as well. Milesplit reported:
It was business as usual for Boerne Champion's Elizabeth Leachman in the UIL 5A Girls 3200m. She went to the front of the pack and extended her lead throughout. She has run as fast as 9:43.74 this year but went at a more conservative pace hitting the 1600m at 5:08 and then she ran 5:03 for her second mile to break the meet record with a time of 10:11.40. The race for second place was much more compelling with Sara Morefield and Camryn Benson of Lucas Lovejoy setting the pace. The two stayed at the front of the trail pack and eventually with Sydni Wilkins of Frisco Liberty they broke away. The three were separated by a half second heading into the final lap. Morefield pulled away for second place in 10:35.64 while Benson took third in 10:38.74 and Wilkins had to settle for fourth place. Leachman is attempting to win all three distance races today and this is her first time this year running all three races in the same day. Article
Keep in mind while Leachman is celebrated in Texas, Mississippi bars phenoms such as Tupelo's Andrew Brown from competing in high school sports. His crime was to participate in the New Balance Indoor Track Championships in Philadelphia earlier this year. MHSAA suspended him even though there is no indoor track season in Mississippi.
However, this is Mississippi where excellence is punished and incompetence is rewarded. Earlier post. The retards at MHSAA should take note on how they do things in Texas. One more example of why Mississippi is last and Texas is well, Texas.
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MHSAA is nothing but consistent in their inability to make correct decisions.
Here's the epitome of it: Cory McGee, a Mississippi Olympian and holder of the national record, recalls that she learned, on the bus to the Olympic Village, that she was NOT voted Most Athletic in high school.
And who are most of the principals? The ex middling coaches who also run this high school association, reveling in fewtbawl, but ignoring world class athletes in track and field and swimming and other non-Bubba sports.
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Laughing about when I wasn't voted most athletic in high school while on the bus to the Olympic village. 10:13 AM · Aug 4, 2021.
When you let Neanderthals run an organization, should you expect the wisdom of Churchill, or cave writings?
It’s fine for all the football players at the affluent suburban schools to go to camps and 7v7 tournaments all summer at Ole Miss and MSU though. No advantage gained there. Right?
The MHSAA is an association governed by members. Ultimately, if the superintendents of the state don’t chime in and demand that the board correct this, they are all complicit. Ask your local superintendent where they stand on this.
I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment about MHSAA, but the word retard isn't necessary there. Lets call them assholes and clowns like they are, but come on KF.
Does the private school association have the same restrictions?
Disabled persons don't deserve to be lumped in with the idiots who run the MHSAA.
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It’s fine for all the football players at the affluent suburban schools to go to camps and 7v7 tournaments all summer at Ole Miss and MSU though. No advantage gained there. Right?
June 20, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Some 7v7 tournaments even turn into UFC Cage fights before it's over.
As I said on the first post about this, Andrew Brown should leave Mississippi as soon as possible and never return.
Some 7v7 tournaments even turn into UFC Cage fights before it's over.
That there is training for when they go to collage and join a frat!
Andrew's crime was threatening the supremacy of the Pearl track team, which had an older runner is direct competition with him.
I think it's really just that simple.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Never truer than with this bunch of morons (unless it's the NCAA).
Mississippi should look at Texas schools as a whole. Texas has ISD's. Not the county setup that Good ole Mississippi has. Maybe if people would remember that school/college is an academic establishment and not a sport establishment, the scores would be better, but there is to many idiots on the school boards, robbing them blind, Simpson county is full of it.
I would agree with 9:41, except that my superintendent cannot spell "superintendent" and her school board makes her look like the winner of the National Spelling Bee.
I may be a bit confused, but how can a child travel to other states and play baseball, softball, and even volleyball on teams that are not sponsored by the state of MS and still be allowed to play for their local school, but they cannot not run track?
Everyone has to do their part to keep Mississippi last in all categories.
12:52 you are confused, only because you are blessed with common sense. It should be obvious to one and all that the MHSAA is made up of "people" who are not as blessed as you are.
In order to separate the fly shit from the pepper...
retard
1: a holding back or slowing down
2: a person affected with intellectual disability
3: a foolish or stupid person
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