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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, look at professional athlete average heights and that will tell you how college and high school coaches are biased.

According to Google, the sports below are essentially the only pro sports where the average height for men and women is less than 5'10" and 5'8", respectively:

Marathoners
Gymnasts (many argue that the sport itself is partially responsible for keeping gymnasts small and that many would have grown taller if they had not started the sport so young)
Ski Jumpers
Lightweight to lower bands of Middle Weight for basically any sport specifically built around weight:  boxing, UFC, wrestling, et al (i.e., people are mentioning wrestling here, but you won't find many short wrestlers at heaviest weight classes)
Female ice skaters...average for men is 5'10"[/quote]

Are male singles figure skaters tall? I would think that the average for men is influenced by the presence of male pairs skaters, who definitely need to be relatively big (to lift their partners).[/quote]

Nathan Chen - 5'6. Ilia Malinin - 5'9.  Evan Lysacek - 6'2. They are all lean and powerful - very good power to weight ratio.  Strong but not broad upper budder.  Body types of a ballet dancer or cyclist.  [/quote]

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