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It's pronounced Gary.

RedRedJarvisRedwhine said it exactly right. The Sioux Falls Argus Leader is well known to those of us in South Dakota as the Sioux Falls Argus Liar. Be careful what you believe when reading that paper.

Here is where i got my info, from a SD newspaper i believe, so not sure whats up either way hes fast, and i know the nebraska record is 10.5 because i looked it up. http://www.arguslead...011/1002/SPORTS We in these parts call that paper the Argus Liar! I saw that too. Never happened. Nate did get 2nd in the 100 meters at the state meet, but the weather was bad...rainy. Track was wet. Not exactly the best conditions to be ripping off great times. As I said, Nate's fastest 100 time was 10.5, which means he ran somewhere between 10.41 and 10.5. Not the state record. Top ten, but maybe he will get the state record next year.

Again, I am from South Dakota and follow track very closely. The above post about Nate Gerry holding the all time state record in the 100 meters is not correct. And not sure where you got that time from. He has a time in the top 10, but not the fastest ever. But he does have a year left, so maybe he will run a 10.39 next year (or faster). The fastest he has ever run in the 100 in 10.5. However, and don't ask me why this is done...I think it's stupid. Times in some races and the 100 being one of them are rounded up. So if he ran a 10.41 for instance, they would round it up to 10.5. So his 10.5 that he did run is likely somewhere in the 10.4? something. But definitely not 10.39...because that would be the all time state record in South Dakota and he doesn't own that record.

Article today from the Sioux Falls Argus Leader about Nate. One correction. It says he had an offer from Michigan, but that should read Michigan State. Also remember, that this past football season was the first Nate ever played defense. So if here are things on tape you are criticizing, keep that in mind. http://www.argusleader.com/article/20120619/COLUMNISTS0104/306190011/Whitney-Tradition-helped-lure-WHS-Nate-Gerry-Nebraska?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CSports&nclick_check=1

And John Dutton, Larry Jacobson and Randy Schleusener.

I left something out of my previous post. Derek Farniok is at Oklahoma.

I am from Sioux Falls and want to correct and add some information on here. All kids from South Dakota are not going to be ranked high because South Dakota is not looked at and rightly so as having great competition. However, in the past decade or so, there has been a large spike in the number of Division I athletes out of South Dakota in a lot of different sports. And I am not talking about 1AA football or those type of schools. I am talking about the 6 BCS conference type schools. The quarterback in the video on page 1 of this thread throwing the ball to Nate is Jon Hander. Jon's older brother Ryan quarterbacked at Sioux Falls Lincoln and is now pitching for your Nebraksa Cornhuskers baseball team. Nate ran a 10.5 100 meters and 21.4 200 meters (fastest times) this past track season. He finished 2nd in the 100 at the state track meet and 1st in the 200. Nate is as chiseled as any high school kid I have ever seen. Sioux Falls Washington is the most dominant high school football program in South Dakota right now. They have been to 5 straight 11AA championship games (winning two) and they will be the pre season ranked #1 this coming fall. In the past few years they have sent too many to list here players to colleges from NAIA, DII, D1AA and now 3 players to DI. Two other players from Washington in recent years are Tom Farniok who started as a redshirt freshmen this past season at Iowa State (center) and Derek Farniok who will be a redshirt freshmen this fall and my understanding will most likely be 2nd string at an offensive tackle. Sioux Falls Washington has roughly 2000 kids in high school. Sioux Falls has 160,000 people. It is a city that is very pro business...high achievement is encouraged and celebrated here. No one is made to feel guilty about their achievements, success or money. A type of atmosphere where doing big things and chasing your dream is encouraged. I have coached against Nate in some sports when he was younger. Nate is a gamer. You will love him as a player. He will work his a$$ off. Whatever players you have on your team that are recognized for putting in the work, but also the extra work....that will be Nate. No one will work harder. I have no idea how successful he wil be, but South Dakota has sent a handful of players to Nebraska to play football in the past and all have done fairly well. Doug Herrmann, Tom Welter, the Vedral brothers and so on.