South Carolina Track Has Big Hopes For Nyckoles Harbor

Inside Recruiting

Tim Casey

Feb 03, 2023

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* Nyckoles Harbor competes at The VA Showcase in January

Photo Credit: Tavan Smith/MileStat

"This is one with the potential of a lifetime. It took 30 years between [Usain] Bolt and Carl Lewis. It didn't take 30 years to see this guy."

By Tim Casey - MileSplit Recruiting Reporter

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As an assistant coach at the University of East Carolina in the mid- to late-1970s, Curtis Frye remembers seeing a high school sprinter named Carl Lewis.

It wasn't until watching Usain Bolt run in the mid- to late-2000s that Frye saw a teenager as talented as Lewis.

Frye marveled at Lewis and Bolt, who both became Olympic gold medalists and world record holders. Still, Frye, who has been the University of South Carolina's head track coach since 1996, watched from afar ... not up close.

Now, though, Frye can't believe his good fortune as later this year he'll have a chance to coach Nyckoles Harbor, an Archbishop Carroll (DC) sprinter and football player who signed with the Gamecocks on Wednesday.

"This is one w...