The Class of 2016 has the potential to go down as the greatest crop of track and field athletes ever.
The Class Of 2016 | Michael Norman (Episode 5)
Jun 23, 2021
Up next in our series is 2016 Vista Murrieta (CA) graduate Michael Norman, a two-time Gatorade National Athlete of the Year, a World U20 champion at 200m and one of California's all-time greatest athletes who set a 200m state record in 20.14 (+1.6) -- at the U.S. Olympic Trials, where he finished fifth -- and ran the third-best 400m time of 45.19.
And yet, Norman's true rise would take place while he was competing for the University of Southern California, where he won four NCAA Championships and set in 2018 a then-World Indoor Record of 44.52 seconds in the 400m -- which later was not ratified -- before going on to qualify the World Championships in 2019.
He holds career best performances of 19.70 in the 200m and 43.45 in the 400m and currently stands as one of the United States' most promising athletes of his generation.
