Abstract
This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the gender differences in the improvement of high schooldistance runners to better understand the impact of gender on athletic performance. There is a lack of gender-specific studies regarding athletic performance in existing research, especially at the high school level. There is alsoa clear gap in available research comparing the improvement of males and females. To close this gap, this researchanalyzes 1600-meter race times of high school runners from MileSplit, a running time database. These times wereimported and analyzed by a Python code and Excel graphs. Results reveal that male runners experience greaterimprovement than females during high school and that elite runners improve at a faster rate than non-elite runners.These results can be connected back to the difference in growth patterns and hormonal processes of each gender.This research addresses gender-based performance differences among high school runners and serves as a basis forfuture investigations on athletic performance gaps between genders.
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