Richard Lee goes to Dickinson High School. Those familiar with the town will tell you that the town southeast of Houston and on your route to Galveston is all about it's high school football. The Gator football program is serious business in the area and those who grow up in Dickinson long to play in this program.
Lee has been one of the lucky few to live that dream and don the pads for the Gators. The six-foot, 180 pound senior outside linebacker who also puts it in as a safety has now ended his playing days at Dickinson as a football player. He is still unsigned, but that might soon change.
With nothing but time left to hone his skills on the track, we are quickly becoming aware of what he can do; this track and field season is becoming the introduction of Richard Lee. College football and track coaches are also getting a glimpse of what type of speed Lee possesses.
Lee entered the weekend with a 10.22 performance this season in the 100m and a 22.07 in the 200m. He also had bests last year of 10.88 and 21.68. Those are respectable times for boys sprints in Texas, however with marks of 11.18 and 22.68 many might have been unsure of what to make of Lee's speed. He was weaving in and out of track and field with football in the spring for the past three years.
After this weekend, I am personally still unsure of Lee's ceiling, but there is no doubt of his talent and that the potential is through the roof.
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With probably more time than he has ever spent in the Dickinson track and field program before over the past couple of months, the picture is clear that Lee has phenomenal speed and loads of talent.
Photo credit: Roderick Pernetter/MileSplit TX
This past weekend, Lee competed on the biggest track and field state of his Dickinson career and against the top sprint talent he's faced and that was at the Texas A&M Bluebonnet High School Invitational.
Many of the top track and field focused talent in Texas and nationally for that fact as well as some football/track hybrids were on hand and lining up with Lee. All he did was hold his own and validate the 10.22 he entered with.
Lee went 10.54 to win his 100m preliminary heat with a +1.8 meter per second wind assist. He then proceeded to run another wind legal run of 20.77 (+1.5) for a new personal best in the 200m. On Saturday in the finals, Lee was second in both events and matched his 10.22 personal best in the 100m with a +2.6 wind reading and then 20.66 with a +3.8 wind reading in the 200m.
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What was additionally impressive was Lee's ability to compete. In football, it is huge to execute positional assignments, skills, and schemes. Track is different, but also similar in ways. He was able to execute the sprint phases well enough to handle high pressure and high level situations.
He lined up against certified and established sprinters like Georgia Track and Field commit's Brayden Williams (Duncanville) in the 100m and Justin Stewart (Fort Worth Arlington Heights). Both Williams and Stewart produced US No. 1 performances to come out on top of Lee, but he was able to run US No. 2 runs of his own.
