From A 5:44 Mile At Six Years Old To A Top High Schooler In The Country: The Story Of Daniel Skandera
THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST
Dominic Schlueter
4.8 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
One of the biggest up-and-coming stars in the country, Daniel Skandera, comes on the podcast today to share his story!
Daniel has one of the most INSANE resumes as a junior in high school.
He's a 4x USATF Junior Olympic National Champion. He's also set over FIFTY age-group world records ranging from 600m-5000m and ages 5-12.
He was 14th at 2023 Footlocker South Regionals, but the 1st underclassman and 3rd best non-senior.
He went onto to become the 2023 RunningLane XC Champion as a sophomore.
Daniel returns to the 2024 Foot Locker meet looking for a little redemption.
He holds PRs of 4:10 (1600m), 8:53 (3200m), and 15:05 (XC).
In today's conversation, Daniel takes me through his insane career, how he got started in the sport at such a young age, attacking every world age group record, his progression in high school, what making Foot Locker would mean to him andso much more!
This one is packed with fun stories and great insights. Don't miss it!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Call Room Road to Balboa presented by Hoka. |
| 0:06.1 | A quick note for you high schoolers out there listening, give me 60 seconds of your time. |
| 0:11.1 | Over the years growing up, the Foot Locker National Cross Country Championships were always on my calendar to watch. |
| 0:16.9 | And the road to the national meets starts with the four regional meets of the West, Midwest, northeast, and south regions. The experience that comes with trying to qualify for the most |
| 0:24.6 | prestigious national championship in high school cross country is like none other. Whether you're |
| 0:29.9 | trying to compete to make the national meet or not, the foot locker regional meets have many |
| 0:33.4 | divisions, including the freshman sophomore division and open division so that you can race |
| 0:37.8 | with other high schoolers of your abilities to close out the season come late November. |
| 0:42.4 | Come and race with Hoka at your regional meet. |
| 0:44.8 | You will not regret it. |
| 0:45.9 | One of my biggest regrets in high school was actually not running my regional meet, which |
| 0:49.9 | was the Midwest region. |
| 0:51.6 | Foot Locker has so much history and aura behind it. |
| 0:55.5 | It is the 45th year this year. |
| 0:57.9 | And yeah, I just really regret not racing other kids |
| 1:01.2 | from my state of Ohio as well as the other states |
| 1:04.5 | around the Midwest. |
| 1:05.4 | And as I said, there are four regions. |
| 1:07.2 | So if you're in America listening to this, |
| 1:08.7 | there's a region close by to you that you can run in if you're in high school and close out your high school cross country season in the most memorable way or give yourself the chance to qualify for that national meet in San Diego on December 14th. |
| 1:21.5 | You guys can find more info at footlockercc.com or in the show notes. |
| 1:25.9 | Again, you will not regret running your regional meat the experience |
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