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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are the 13-14 boys times so much faster when everything else is slower?[/quote]
The jump to 13-14 is always rough for the boys, but this makes it even rougher. [/quote]

Every year kids are pushed harder and harder at younger ages, so the boys who mature early are posting these times. By 18, it largely evens out, and college recruiting looks for a trajectory to account for this. The kid who was fast at 14, but shows a slowing pace of improvement will not have an advantage over a kid who shows a giant leap at 16 with continued improvement.[/quote]

This is true, and definitely makes it harder for the later maturing boys to hang in there through those early teen years. A good club will recognize this though, and continue to develop those athletes that are obviously talented but later to mature physically. That often pays off since these boys tend to end up bigger/taller than the early developers! [/quote]

But the really fast ones - are the fastest all along. [/quote]

I mean, not really. Maybe they were the fastest at 10, even 12, but if they don’t hit puberty/growth spurt until 15, they are not going to keep up with 13 and 14 year old grown men. They just aren’t. They might still be good but not “the best” - it’s just physically not possible.  But at 15+ they will catch up and often surpass in size and speed. [/quote]

Google Thomas Heilman. [/quote]

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