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National High School Records Through the Years Photo credit: Fresno Bee Girls Record – Marathon Diane Barrett (Hoover, Fresno, California) Performance – 2:46:23 Date – December 4, 1976 Place – Culver City, California Meet – AAU Championships Previous Record - 2:50:21 by Barrett at the Fiesta Bowl Marathon in Phoenix December 20, 1975 Forty-nine years ago this week, Barrett, a 15-year-old sophomore at Hoover, finished second at Nationals, less than a minute behind the veteran Julie Brown. Brown had been a member of the world cross country championship team and later ran in the inaugural Olympic marathon, in Los Angeles in 1984. The petite Barrett – 5-foot-4, 93 pounds – had already run previous marathons. One year earlier she ran a world age-14-best 2:50:21. By 1976 she was running 12 to 18 miles a day. Less than a year after this race, in the Fall of 1977, Barrett won the AAU Junior women’s marathon championship, running 2:51:49 on a chilly on a chilly morning in Minneapolis. National High School Records Through the Years appears once a week, compiled and written by a track historian, Jack Pfeifer (Lake Oswego, Oregon). Inquiries may be directed to him by email ([email protected]). |
