Lake Belton HS, Temple, TX, c/o 2026
AthleticNET Bio
Kendrick was always running when he was younger; down and back on the sidewalk was the most common. His parents decided to put him in the Tempo Flyers Club at age 5 years old.
By the time age eight rolled around, he was getting faster. He finished fourth in the 100m in 14.30 and in the 200m in 29.20 at the AAU JO Nationals. By the time he turned 11, he won the 200m in 25.20 and finished fourth in the 100m (12.46).
He was faster than most kids and has always been a bit bigger too. His birthday is early in the year, April 3.
“I feel like it’s something I’ve always had,” he says. “ I just kept developing faster than most people my age.”
He played basketball and football. He plans to play this upcoming year on the varsity team. He’s a small forward/shooting guard who’s forte is catch and shoot from the three point range. He averaged 14 points a game last year.
Kendrick is motivated by records and trying to improve on his previous year’s times. Last year, at age 14, he set two AAU JO National meet records. He won the 100 meters in 10.76 and the 200 meters in 21.93. In the prelims, he ran into -0.5 wind to finish in 21.25- that tied the age 14 record run by Kaj Baker earlier in the year at the Florida State championships.
He maintained that fitness this past year, his freshman year. Though he played basketball and trained a bit, he won the Nike Indoor Nationals in 21.45 just missing Tyrese Cooper’s 21.22 frosh record set in 2016. He thought he’d run a bit slower than that given his training schedule and was pleasantly surprised.
His high school coaches had him running with the juniors and seniors this past season. His workouts were based around longer intervals. He says of a typical week of training;
“I think it’s a mix of sprints and long distances. Sometimes we start our practice with like 800. We’ll run at about 2:30 or 2:40 pace. Then we’ll do a couple of 400s and then short sprints out of the blocks for six seconds. Then we do this workout we call ‘around the world’ where you run 100 meters, stop and then turn around and run the back the other way around.”
His favorite workout is one where he runs 200s at 70-80%.
“We run 200s at I say going like 70-80%, working on our form and our drive phase and stuff for 200m. We’ll do two of those with one minute rest and then take three minutes and do it again. I run high 23, low 24.”
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