BUTLERTWP — Logan Renwick is not of high school age yet.

But the Butler eighth-grader is putting up high school numbers while shattering junior high records in track and field early this spring.

Renwick ran the 100-meter hurdles in 15.8 seconds during the junior high team's first meet this season. The program's previous record in that event was 16.2, which was set in 1978.

"Logan is big on setting goals and working to achieve them,"Butler Junior High track coach Mike Egan said. "His goal in the hurdles was to hit 15.8 by the end of the season.

"Now that he's already done that, he's going to have to rethink that one."

He already has.

"I'd like to hit 15.5 or 15.4,"Renwick said. "Just lower it as much as I can."

Renwick is no stranger to track and field success. He won the United States of America Track and Field national title in the triple jump for his age group last summer, leaping 40 feet, 11 Qr inches at the nationals in Indianapolis.

While that distance is his personal best, Renwick broke the junior high record with a triple jump of 40-0 Tuesday. He broke his own record by hitting 40-4 Thursday against Knoch.

"I'm shooting for 42 feet this season,"Renwick said.

"That's pretty ambitious,"Egan said, smiling. "But I wouldn't put it past him. Logan's got tremendous form for someone his age — for someone any age."

Renwick has been competing in USATFmeets since second grade. He admits to being driven by records set by Butler High School athletes.

"Everybody wants to break records and leave their mark in the program that way," he said. "I know I do."

Renwick competes in the long jump as well and has leaped 18-9 Qw inches, but he doesn't lead team in that event.

In the high jump, the 5-foot-9 Renwick hits 5-7. He would lead the junior high squad in that event, but he does not compete in the high jump during meets.

"We need him in the long jump,"Egan explained. "You can only compete in three events in junior high track, and we're pretty stacked in the high jump."

Renwick wishes he could compete in all four.

"You can do four events in high school,"he said. "I don't understand why it can't be the same in junior high."

The junior high hurdles aren't the same, either. They are 33 inches high at that level, 39 inches high at the high school level.

Then again, Renwick isn't through growing, either.

"At least, I hope he's not,"said Jeff Renwick, his father and the junior high hurdles coach. "As he gets taller, the bigger hurdles won't make much difference to him.

"Logan's always been intrigued by the hurdle event. I'd bring him to practice with me when he was a little kid and he'd hang around the hurdles, trying to figure out how to get over them."

Few hurdles have stopped Renwick yet. He was quarterback on his Butler Area Midget Football League team that reached the championship game last fall. He started on the eighth-grade basketball team that finished 20-7 this season.

He plans to be a three-sport athlete in high school.

"I wish more guys would do it.," Renwick said. "Butler has too many athletes focusing on just one sport. If a lot of those guys would play two or three, all of our teams would be a lot better."