How do you determine who the best overall athlete is in a given discipline? It's definitely a difficult question to answer. To me the best athlete in the world is whoever is the reigning olympic or world championship gold medalist in the Decathlon (for men) and Heptathlon (for women). Those who know me know that I am biased and will say that all time I believe that Ashton Eaton is the world's greatest athlete, regardless of sport. Had he not retired when he did he would have won more gold medals and would still be the world record holder in the decathlon. But again, that's showing my own personal bias so let's move on.
So obviously this is high school and our kids don't have too many opportunities to compete in those two events. So most will primarily choose one discipline either sprints, distance, hurdles, jumps, throws, or pole vault. We certainly have some crossover though. Sprints and jumps s...