Brooks PR Event-By-Event Preview

 Boys 800m

The Favorite

With seven boys seeded at 1:49- 1:50 there is no heavy favorite this year. The fastest seed time is out of Billings, MT in Dawson LaRance, who's run 1:49.63. But you can't forget about the first boy to go sub-4 in 2017, Texas' Reed Brown. Brown barely runs the 800m, but has a respectable PR of 1:53.41. As if breaking four wasn't enough, Brown is looking to become the eight boy in high school history to go sub-9 in the 3200m and sub 1:50 in the 800m. 

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The Contenders

Georgia's Everett Smulders has had one of the more impressive breakout years of the 2016-2017 campaign as his PB from the fall was a 1:57.01. Smulders now owns a PB of 1:50.7 and is ready for more elite competition to step up his PB to another notch. Also, watch out for freshman national class record holder Brandon Miller, who ran 1:50.8 in just his first year of high school competition.

The Prediction 

Look out for this to be a fast race since there's no dominant standout.  With six boys that own 1:50 PBs everybody is going to be looking to finally break that 1:50 barrier. Brown might not lead the race through 400m, but look for his strong kick to get him to the front of the pack in the final 100m.

The Field