American Female Sprinters

[jacknyc]

There is such a good crop of young American female sprinters these days, that they deserve their own thread so we can make note and keep track of their performances -

-Jenna Prandini just won the Pac-12 100m Championships, and finished 3rd in the 200m. She is a red-shirt freshman.
-Emily Blok finished 2nd at the Mtn West Championships in the 100m and 200m, missing 1st place in both races by 2/100s of a second.
Jenna and Emily are the 2 fastest white American female sprinters ever - to the best of my knowledge.
-Katie Wise is a freshman at Indiana St. and won the Missouri Valley Conf. Championships 100m.
-Jenna Puterbaugh runs for USC and finished 4th in the 200m behind Prandini at the Pac-12 Championships.
-Georganne Moline runs for Arizona and was an Olympic finalist in the 400m hurdles in London. She showed her flat speed with a blistering 23.37 in April.
-Hannah Cunliffe is a teenage phenom, whose exploits are well documented in other threads.
-Mary Beth Sant is another amazing HSer with the fastest 100m time in the country so far this year -11.38.

Here are the girls' personal bests:
Jenna Prandini 11.31/23.14
Emily Blok 11.32/23.25
Katie Wise 11.41/23.52
Georganne Moline NA/23.32
Jenna Puterbaugh 11.60/23.48
Mary Beth Sant 11.38/23.91
Hannah Cunliffe 11.58/23.85

This quality and depth of female sprinters is unprecedented in the US. All these girls are in college or high school, so they are still developing. Truly exciting!

 

[jacknyc]

Here are the girls' personal bests:
Jenna Prandini 11.31/23.14
Emily Blok 11.32/23.25
Katie Wise 11.41/23.52
Georganne Moline NA/23.32
Jenna Puterbaugh 11.60/23.48
Mary Beth Sant 11.38/23.91
Hannah Cunliffe 11.58/23.85

This quality and depth of female sprinters is unprecedented in the US. All these girls are in college or high school, so they are still developing. Truly exciting!

Although she is a hurdler, I should add Stanford's Katie Nelms to this list. She sometimes runs the flat sprints and her times are comparable to the above group.
-Katie Nelms 11.45/23.36

 

[albinosprint]

Great Thread! thanks for the research.

 

[jacknyc]

Mary Beth Sant won the 100m and 200m at the Colorado State Championships.
Her times were and 11.57 and 23.61. She also ran 11.47 in the heats.
Her PBs are now 11.38/23.61.

And here is a nice article about her from a few days ago:
http://www.denverpost.com/preps/ci_23244917/valor-christians-marybeth-sant-has-nations-fastest-100

 

[jacknyc]

This might be a good post for this list of the all-time top American Female sprinters.

Abby Steiner	10.90	2022	1.0w
Jenna Prandini	10.92	2015	1.4w
Mary Beth Sant Price	10.95	2022	1.4w
Hannah Cunliffe	10.99	2016	1.7w
Mia Brahe-Pedersen	11.00	2023	1.5w
Sandra Myers*	11.06	1991	1.7w
Katie Wise	11.23	2014	1.7w
Erin Kinney`	11.28	2023	1.2w
Anna Keefer	11.29	2022	1.8w
Kate Hall	11.30	2017	0.4w

 

[mastermulti]

an extraordinary drop in standard between numbers 1-6 then the rest. Shows a lack of depth over the years which may be changing

 

[sprintstar]

was Kate Hall not more of a long jumper than a full time 100m sprinter?

 

[jacknyc]

Yes, Kate Hall was/is primarily a long jumper.

 

[jacknyc]

an extraordinary drop in standard between numbers 1-6 then the rest. Shows a lack of depth over the years which may be changing

Not sure this is a definitive list...I may have missed someone.
But what is also interesting, is that almost all the women listed are still active, or were active until very recently.
Obviously times have gotten faster recently, but still I can't think of others from previous decades who would be close to making the list.
It shows that more young girls are participating and excelling in the sprints.

 

[white is right]

Not sure this is a definitive list...I may have missed someone.
But what is also interesting, is that almost all the women listed are still active, or were active until very recently.
Obviously times have gotten faster recently, but still I can't think of others from previous decades who would be close to making the list.
It shows that more young girls are participating and excelling in the sprints.

It was Sandra Meyers and that was it for fairly recent White American short sprinters. You didn't even see also ran short sprinters at the university level beyond schools like Stanford or Northwestern type schools.

Even Myers she never ran in the US trials once she turned pro or really in the amateur era where athletes money was held in escrow while they drew a stipend for living expenses.

I had an older relative who used to grouse about amateur athletes pulling up to training sessions in sports cars and not having a 9 to 5 job and training in the evenings after their "real job".

 

[mastermulti]

a one time coach of mine, Lyn Jacenko, trained here in Sydney in the early to mid 1970s after her 8 hour a day job as a comptometrist. She used to train with one overhead light in winter in her track suit to help keep warm. She often trained alone.
She jumped 6.60m (21'8") Australian record at 19 and eventually won the inaugural World Cup long jump in Dusseldorf in 1977.
As far as pharmaceutical aids, I don't think she's ever taken even a Panadol for a headache.
She still coaches today but noted the distractions that lead to kids with lots of ability deciding to skip from one pursuit to another after some minor disappointment because there's so much else on offer. They don't have the "head" to fight to become top of their field.
Also, most kids need the group around them - many of the greats could do it alone.

 

[Phoenix]

I guess it's a wrap on the little career Hannah Cunliffe had. She doesn't strike me as the type dedicated enough to train hard, and come back after getting knocked up.

 

[sprintstar]

she gets knocked up by a negro even though she was constantly bullied on her high school track team by blacks at Rainier Beach HS. Well see how long he sticks around once the babies born and her money dries up.... Look at his facial expression....it does not lie.

 

[SneakyQuick]

The neck tattoos are also a big tell.

What the f was she thinking.