Donna on the Side - Friday at the AOC
by Donna Dye
Part 1 - fans, sideline action and potpourri
Part 2 - winners - track individuals
Part 3 - winners - relays
Part 4 - winners - jumps
Part 5 - winners - throws
Throws
Discus
Discus Winners: (from left)
5th Tara Cooper OH, 3rd Sarah Thornton NY, 1st Amy Bilmanis MD, 2nd Michaela Wallerstedt NE, 4th Kelley Moore OH, 6th Ashley Muffet OH |
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Discus Winners: (from left top) 2nd Michaela Wallerstedt NE, 5th Tara Cooper
(from left bottom) 1st Amy Bilmanis MD, 6th Ashley Muffet OH |
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Amy Bilmanis MD with Dad and Coach, Andy |
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Sarah Thornton NY with Dad, David. Sarah finished 3rd in the discus. |
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Discus Winners
(from left) 5th Chase Madison IA, 3rd Nate Rolfe WA, 1st Chris Rohr MO, 2nd Westley Stockbarger FL, 3rd Nate Rolfe WA, 4th Ryan Whiting
6th Nathan Englin MN |
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Discus Top Three:
(from left) 2nd Wesley Stockbarger FL, 1st Chris Rohr MN,
3rd Nate Rolfe WA |
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Shot Put
| Shot Put Winners (from left) 1 Chase Madison 04 Newton, IA 19.52m 64-00.50 18.81m 19.19m FOUL FOUL 19.52m FOUL 2 Ryan Whiting 05 Harrisburg, PA 19.36m 63-06.25 18.59m 18.87m 18.64m 18.62m FOUL 19.36m 3 Danny Rohr 05 Grover Beach, CA 19.31m 63-04.25 18.04m 18.77m 19.04m 18.78m 18.74m 19.31m 4 Rob Rankin 05 Pittsburgh, PA 18.78m 61-07.50 17.12m 17.89m 17.50m 17.81m FOUL 18.78m 5 Mark Lewis 04 Arroyo Grande, CA 18.73m 61-05.50 18.73m FOUL FOUL 18.24m FOUL FOUL 6 David Koronkiewicz 04 Goshen, IN |
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Javelin
| Javelin Winners: (from left) 3rd Zuzanna Legatova NH, 1st Daina Pucurs NJ, 2nd Amanda Harmata NJ, 4th Kathleen Librizzi NJ, 6th Brittney Johnson AR |
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| Javelin Winners: (top from left) 1st Mark Taylor LA, 6th Sam Eck PA, 2nd Preston Chatham LA (bottom from left) 4th Chad Radgowski PA, 5th Chad Brown LA, 3rd Jim Roy CT |
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Daina Pucurs NJ winner of the Javelin with Dad, Ilmars |
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| Daina Pucurs with next year's coach at Duke, Lynda Blutreich, and high school coach, Carl Von Tobel |
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It's Daina, please, not Diana
Daina Pucurs' mom, Wendy, sent this message on Daina's birthday Monday June 21 about her daughter's often misspelled name:
"It's easy to see how Daina's name can be mistaken for "Diana" as it only involves switching the "ai" to "ia." Actually, when she was born 18 years ago today, we weren't just being "cute" or different by spelling her name the way we did. My husband's family is originally from Latvia (one of the Baltic states near Sweden that was occupied by the Soviets for nearly 50 years) (though he grew up in Australia due to his parents' fleeing from the Soviets) and "Daina" is a popular Latvian name for girls. They pronounce it "Dy-na," so half of our family [my half] calls her "Day-na" and the other half [his] calls her "Dy-na!!!" |
Donna on the Side - Friday at AOC Raleigh
Part 1 - fans, sideline action and potpourri
Part 2 - winners - track individuals
Part 3 - winners - relays
Part 4 - winners - jumps
Part 5 - winners - throws
AOC Raleigh index page
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