What Ever Happened To One Of The Top High School Sprinters Ever? This Is Obea Moore's Story.

Eight years ago, in 2015, FloSports caught up with legendary prep standout Obea Moore, once hailed as the fastest high school sprinter for 400 meters ever, to find out what the California native, a '95 graduate of Pasadena Muir High School, had been up to since hanging up his spikes.
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[@billybussey]

I was there in Ceritos in 1995 8:56 His final leg in the 4x4 was the greatest high school athletic feat I ever saw. My team got destroyed in the semi rounds.

[@ChastityGathers]

QUINCY WILSON...Next man up. He's 16 and just made the Olympics 2024... Running 44's in the 400

[@djxcel23]

He is doing his thing. I have been follows him on social media for years.

[@jgood4010]

Whats his handle?

[@ChastityGathers]

How is he doing his thing?? He gave up and never went to the line. He clda been the next track sensation. I teach my boys never give up . He shlda walked to that line and ran the Pomona Pitzer Invitational

[@djxcel23]

@@jgood4010 obea_moore

[@djxcel23]

@@ChastityGathers so because he didnt continue in track and field he cant be doing good. That sounds sounds silly

[@ChastityGathers]

HE GAVE UP ‼️

[@cookietolliver9980]

My guy “The Great Elk”

[@lexington476]

Story kind of stopped. what happened after he got injured. did he ever return to racing? did he finish college? what does he do for a living?

[@ChastityGathers]

He's on social media.. but after he got injured he healed up and had a successful return... He came back and quit.. never went to the line in the Pomona Pitzer Invitational, a tune up meet before the Mt. SAC Relays. He was facing serious competition from people with marks equivalent to Moore's high school junior accomplishments, Moore pulled out of the race at the last minute. "He couldn't go to the line," recalls then Life University head coach Mark Spino. "If he just was even around, people had such high expectations of him, it was hard for him to start anyplace and very hard for him to have intermediary goals."