Athletics 2019 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 15,253]

7,28 seconds for 15-year old N'Ketia Seedo at the Dutch indoor champs today, giving her 3rd behind Schippers and Samuel  

 

That's the world's fastest junior time this year and one of the fastest in the world in at least the last ten years.

[Monzanator 4,579]

I'll take a wild guess she's another import from or

[heywoodu 15,253]

11 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

I'll take a wild guess she's another import from or

Can't find it anywhere  All mentions of her (also from before this weekend) call her 'the talented girl from Utrecht' and things like that  

[phelps 7,746]

27 minuti fa, Monzanator ha scritto:

I'll take a wild guess she's another import from or

 

15 minuti fa, heywoodu ha scritto:

Can't find it anywhere  All mentions of her (also from before this weekend) call her 'the talented girl from Utrecht' and things like that  

 

looking at her photos (and listening to her name), she definitely has Caribbean heritage...

 

but...from the very few info available on the net, she does live in the Netherlands and she's been living there since many years (at least before she turned 7 years young), because she said she' been training in the Netherlands (Utrecht) with Juul Acton (who should be a quite famous Dutch coach) since that age...

 

so, she might even have Caribbean genes, but technically she's definitely a "Dutch athletic school" product (if someone can talk of "products" for people and especially for people of that age)...

[heywoodu 15,253]

25 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

 

looking at her photos (and listening to her name), she definitely has Caribbean heritage...

 

but...from the very few info available on the net, she does live in the Netherlands and she's been living there since many years (at least before she turned 7 years young), because she said she' been training in the Netherlands (Utrecht) with Juul Acton (who should be a quite famous Dutch coach) since that age...

 

so, she might even have Caribbean genes, but technically she's definitely a "Dutch athletic school" product (if someone can talk of "products" for people and especially for people of that age)...

Well yeah, that was clear to me too  I mean, she's no Ruth Jebet  

[OlympicsFan 860]

vor 1 Stunde schrieb heywoodu:

7,28 seconds for 15-year old N'Ketia Seedo at the Dutch indoor champs today, giving her 3rd behind Schippers and Samuel  

 

That's the world's fastest junior time this year and one of the fastest in the world in at least the last ten years.

"That's the world's fastest junior time this year and one of the fastest in the world in at least the last ten years."

Of course we have to take into consideration that in the US/Jamaica indoor athletics is almost non-existant.

Seedo has been known as a huge talent for at least 1 year now. Outdoors is a completely different story of course, but it will be interesting to see what she will do in the summer. 11.40 - 11.50 seems possible. Candace Hill ran 10.98 as a 16 year old in 2015 and Jodie Williams ran 11.23 as a 16 year old in 2010, so far they both haven't done anything noteworthy at senior level. Last year Briana Williams and Tamari Davis both ran 11.13 as 15 year olds. It's a bit worrying that she only improved her 60 m PB by 0.08 seconds, at this age you would expect bigger improvements.

[heywoodu 15,253]

10 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Of course we have to take into consideration that in the US/Jamaica indoor athletics is almost non-existant.

Absolutely, but still I'm interested in seeing her compete on the big (junior) stage outdoors.

[Dennis 738]

I found a video on the site of the Dutch broadcaster where she's being interviewed. Seedo said she was born in , but pretty much has lived her whole life in .

 

https://nos.nl/video/2272274-schippers-snelt-naar-indoortitel-seedo-maakt-indruk-op-nk.html

[Olympian1010 8,053]

50 minutes ago, Dennis said:

I found a video on the site of the Dutch broadcaster where she's being interviewed. Seedo said she was born in , but pretty much has lived her whole life in .

 

https://nos.nl/video/2272274-schippers-snelt-naar-indoortitel-seedo-maakt-indruk-op-nk.html

So...Pan Am Games anyone?

[Monzanator 4,579]

Yaaas!!!! Girl from Utrecht born in  That was too obvious even for me