It's been a good year for throws thus far in 4A, and Mountain View's Scott Sipes is one of the reasons for that. Photo by Alan Versaw.
Note: I ran this same article the last two weeks, but have updated it this week with a fifth column indicating where the #18 cutoff lies for 4A at the end of this past weekend's action. All the rest of the article, and how to properly read it, remains the same.
The idea of this article is simple: compare where we are now in 4A state qualifying to what it took to get to state in each of the last two years. For each event, the first number represents what it took to get to state in 2013, the second number what it took to get to state in 2014, and the third number (red means it's already tougher this year than last) what it currently takes to make the cutoff for 2015.
Key to the numbers: The first number following the event name is the minimum state qualifying mark for 2013. The second number is the minimum state qualifying mark for 2014. The next three numbers are the #18 rankings marks for this year on April 20, April 27, and May 4.
4A Girls
100 meter dash - 12.71, 12.80, 12.90, 12.84, 12.80
200 meter dash - 26.41, 26.26, 26.60, 26.44, 26.20
400 meter dash - 1:00.28, 1:00.12, 1:00.31, 59.93, 59.55
800 meter run - 2:20.39, 2:21.32, 2:25.37, 2:23.81, 2:22.62
1600 meter run - 5:22.53, 5:21.80, 5:25.52, 5:22.27, 5:19.55
3200 meter run - 11:49.35, 11:53.01, 11:47.54, 11:43.83, 11:43.78
100 meter hurdles - 16.51, 16.56, 16.59, 16.53, 16.43
300 meter hurdles - 48.27, 47.57, 48.53, 47.82. 47.61
4x100 meter relay - 50.96, 50.74, 51.08, 50.89, 50.81
4x200 meter relay - 1:47.07, 1:47.15, 1:48.76, 1:48.06, 1:46.80
4x400 meter relay - 4:11.36, 4:08.18, 4:16.28, 4:14.31, 4:11.57
4x800 meter relay - 10:08.63, 10:08.52, 10:31.98, 10:15.68, 10:13.28
800 meter sprint medley relay - 1:52.08, 1:52.02, 1:53.87, 1:52.98, 1:52.58
High jump - 5-1, 5-1, 5-1, 5-1, 5-1
Pole vault - 9-6, 9-0, 8-9, 9-0, 9-3
Long jump - 16-7, 16-6, 16-4.5, 16-4.5, 16-6
Triple jump - 34-7, 34-3.75, 34-1, 34-1.5, 34-1.75
Shot put - 36-0, 34-2.5, 33-9, 33-9, 34-0
Discus throw - 118-8, 111-0, 107-7, 110-10, 111-1
4A Boys
100 meter dash - 11.11, 11.23, ?, 11.33, 11.27
200 meter dash - 22.44, 22.66, ?, 22.78, 22.65
400 meter dash - 50.87, 50.68, ?, 51.31, 50.98
800 meter run - 2:00.09, 2:00.20, ?, 2:02.87, 2:00.59
1600 meter run - 4:35.13, 4:32.10, ?, 4:36.78, 4:34.33
3200 meter run - 10:01.80, 10:05.28, ?, 10:04.99, 9:57.89
110 meter hurdles - 15.66, 15.60, ?, 15.99, 15.83
300 meter hurdles - 40.28, 41.29, 41.29, 41.24, 41.07
4x100 meter relay - 43.90, 43.91, 44.40, 44.22, 44.22
4x200 meter relay - 1:30.92, 1:31.51, 1:32.22, 1:32.01, 1:31.57
4x400 meter relay - 3:28.07, 3:28.49, 3:33.02, 3:31.94, 3:31.35
4x800 meter relay - 8:20.60, 8:20.39, 8:35.12, 8:30.34, 8:22.40
High jump - 6-1, 6-1, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2
Pole vault - 12-6, 12-9, 11-7, 12-0, 12-1
Long jump - 21-2.5, 21-3, 20-11, 21-0, 21-1.5
Triple jump - 42-10.75, 43-0, 42-1, 42-5.5, 42-10.25
Shot put - 47-6.5, 47-0.5, 45-8, 45-10.25, 46-6.5
Discus throw - 140-7, 142-7, 135-6, 137-11, 139-6