Numbers Game: Sub-10 Club
1/13/2015 12:00:00 AM | Men's Outdoor Track
Oct. 14, 2014
FORT WORTH, Texas - Number's Game takes a look at the history of the TCU track & field program using the numbers behind the stories. This edition takes a look at the Horned Frogs who have run the 100-meter dash in under 10 seconds.
7.4 - percentage of Frogs on the list of 94 athletes in the world who have ran the 100-meter dash in under 10 seconds. TCU has the most former student-athletes of any university in the sub-10 club. The next closest institution is ranked at 4.3%.
36 - number of times a Frog has recorded a 100-meter dash time in under 10 seconds.
1989 - the year the first Frog posted a sub-10 time, set by Raymond Stewart at 9.97 seconds, which still stands as the school record.
9.88 - time of TCU Letterman's Association Hall of Famer Michael Frater's fastest 100-meter mark set on June 30, 2011.
22 - ranking where Frater's time of 9.88 seconds sits on the all-time leaderboard.
10 - amount of times Jon Drummond has posted marks of under 10 second times in the 100-meter dash.
21 - age of Charles Silmon when he set a PR of 9.98 seconds, the youngest Frog to appear on the sub-10 list.
7 - at least one Frog has recorded a sub-10 time in each of the last seven years.
8 - number of days in between Jon Drummond (June 12, 1997) and Percival Spencer's (June 20, 1997) PR times of 9.92 and 9.98, respectively.
7/20/14 - date that Kim Collins set a new PR with a time of 9.96 seconds, almost a year to the date of his previous best at 9.97.
3 - number of Americans and Jamaicans who are on the sub-10 list from TCU. Kim Collins is the lone Frog from Saint Kitts and Nevis.
2 - the number of separate occasions that multiple Frogs have posted an under 10 second time while competing at the same event on the same day.
12 - times that the most common time, 9.98, appears on the Frogs' list of 36.
25 - years between the first sub-10 time posted by Raymond Stewart on May 20, 1989, and the most recent by Kim Collins on July 20, 2014.
6 - June, the sixth month of the year, has had the most marks of any month with 13.
? - Who will be the next Frog to join the sub-10 club? Here are three current student-athletes who have a shot at being the next TCU sprinter to join the club:
Junior Ronnie Baker - the five-time All-America honoree posted his best 100-meter time last season at the NCAA Prelims, clocking in at 10.14.
Sophomore Raymond Bozmans - although he redshirted the outdoor campaign last season, Bozmans led the Frogs in the men's indoor 60-meter dash with a time of 6.60, only 0.07 seconds off the school record set by Kim Collins in 2000.
Sophomore Kolby Listenbee -also an All-America recipient, Listenbee recorded the team's top-time in the 100-meter dash last season with a time of 10.12 seconds at the Big 12 Championships.
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