The question is debatable since running back Damien Thigpen had the fastest 40 time in 4.28 seconds, and sprinter Randall Carroll was close at 4.31. Carroll won the state 100 and 200-meter titles the last two years and owns a 10.3 in the 100. They have fun with the debate.
“Yeah, we do,” Carroll said. “At the end, he kind of leaned on his. I think I should’ve done that, and maybe we would’ve been closer. We’re still both fast, and we’re still on the same team. That’s the best part.”
Carroll believes he’d get the better of Thigpen on the track.
“He’d explode out on me, but I’d come in the end and get him,” he said. “I’m stronger than him in a whole 100-meter race. Plus, he runs the hurdles. We don’t run the same events.”