***News Flash!***
It's official. New York prep sensation Nicole Blood
moves to SoCal next weekend and will attend Royal!

   

XC Jr Nationals -- preview on meet this weekend!
 Univ New Mex-Simplot Meet! 
Simplot Games Preview

Holiday Inn/VS Athletics Classic in Reno: Men  Women

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Nat'l CC Champ Jordan Hasay joined now by 10:10 2 miler Nicole
Blood (via New York) and super soph Kauren Tarver among others
Our G3200m preview!  Other previews

Michael Coe reflects on running! - St Rec Daniella Thu Weight Throw!!
A.J. picks Oregon! FootLocker Nat'l champ heads north!
All-Com: - - Lee Adams Inv CS Bak - Ebony and crew!!
Prentice/Anthony marks - Mercado 14:47 5k  New - US Lists
Coach Openings - Buffalo Babes NYC 2/18 - Calif Coll Results
Richard Chamberlain (Pacific Grove Coach) passes on

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Big Indoor Weekend Coming up!!!

"First to the Finish Invitational"
University of New Mexico - Albuquerque
Winter meet welcomes Golden Staters!
Super 200m Banked Mondo facility with series of meets this winter culminates
on February 18th with the "First to the Finish" High School Invitational!
Served by most major California airports - Link to Meet Info

Long Beach Poly and Muir are sending athletes, we are told! They'll
have company from Mullen Prep of Colorado and several other states!

 

Simplot Indoor Games - Pocatello, Idaho
Thursday Feb 16 - Friday Feb 17 - Sat Feb 18, 2006

Boys Simplot Preview
Sky's the Limit in Pocatello
With Speed to Burn!!

 
Arkansas 17-03.5 Vaulter Spencer McCorkel will battle with Scott Roth
in the Pole Vault - Record Time Coming up????

  
Leading the Horizontal Jump entrants at Simplot
Terry Prentice (LJ) and Eric Quick (TJ)

 
California transplants - Buchanan to Highland of Pocatello, Idaho
Taylor Farnsworth is now one of Idaho's best!!
Canyon (CC) to Mountain View (Orem, Utah)
State 5A CC Champ - Adam McDonald!!
Check out the above and others in our Simplot Boys Preview
Girls Preview coming up!!

Super Fields once again!!
Girls:
Super group of California dashers face Mississippi's Bianca Knight and Colo's Ashley Cruder
Girls TJ/LJ features Ke'Nyia Richardson-Ashika Charan vs. 20'/41' Floridan Neidra Covington
Hot Relay action led by Teekay TC (LB Wilson/Unat) 4x200 - 4x400 super groups!!
200-400-60m HH super fields to test Golden State's best
Heat Sheets for 2006 Simplot Indoor - Updated 2/14/06

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USA Junior Cross Country Championships
February 18th & 19th, 2006
Van Cortlandt Park - New York City, N.Y.

Yasmine White (center) helps lead the California-based Buffalo Babes
in their pursuit of the USATF XC Junior Nationals cross-country team title!

         
A.J. Acosta, Kauren Tarver, Ben Sitler, Brandon Bethke, Nicole Blood and Diego Mercado are some of
the leading individual entries with "California connections" in downright freezing New York this weekend!

Hartman/Gonzalez Meet Preview!

DyeStatCal "on-site"

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All Comers Action
Weekend of February 10-12, 2006

   
file photos by Doug Speck, Bill Campbell, and Margaret Gallagher
Terry Prentice (Unat/Diamond Ranch HS-left) 23-06.25 nwi LJ at Azusa Pacific Indoor Qualifier;
Tori Anthony (Unat/Castilleja, Palo Alto-middle) 13-00 Girls PV effort  at Los Gatos All-Comers;
Amber Kaufman (Unat/Branham-right) 5-10.25 Girls HJ effort at Los Gatos

Danialle Watson (unat/Carson HS) 57.1 400 & Unattached group Carson HS 4:00.5 at Warren HS
Michael Simms (Unat/Servite HS) 14-00 PV

UC Berkeley
Saturday February 11th
*Miranda Wilson (Unat/Bishop O'Dowd) 42-10 GSP 126-03 GDT
*Darius Morales (Unat/Bishop O'Dowd) 50'4 BSP
G4x400 (Unat/Bishop O'Dowd) 4:04.8

Cal State Northridge
Saturday February 4th
Daniella Thu (Unat/Monte Vista, Spring Valley) 48-07.5 Weight Throw
New State Record!!

Husky Classic - Seattle Washington
Oversized Track - HS 5k - Sat February 11th, 2006

Danny Mercado runs fine clocking on oversize facility in Washington!
Men 5000 Meter Run
1 510 Mercado, Daniel (Unat/West Covina HS) 14:47.72
2 518 Stoutenburgh, Isaa (Unat/Oregon HS) 14:53.87
15 511 Mercado, Diego (Unat/West Covina HS) 15:53.22

Lee Adams Invitational
Sat February 11th, 2006 - Cal State Bakersfield

file photo Kirby Lee
Ebony Collins (Teekay TC/Unat/LB Wilson) and group readies for trip to
Idaho for the Simplot Indoor off Lee Adams meet in Bakersfield Feb 11th

GIRLS
Teekay TC (Unat/Long Beach Wilson) purrs!!
Ebony Collins 6.9 55m - 8.0 60mHH - 43.8 300mLH -
Teekay TC 4x100 47.4 - 4x200 1:40.3 -
BOYS
Unat/McFarand 10:40.4 Dist Medley Re
Meet Results

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Collegiate Action
Weekend of February 10-12, 2006

Huge Weekend at College Level!!
Indoor T&F much more Pac10/Calif 4 Year involvement

     
Shalonda Solomon - Billy Nelson - Jenna Kingma - Mark Matusak
Rolling at the University Level!!

Shalonda Solomon (LB Poly/So Carolina) 22.89 200 - Jenna Kingma (SLO HS/Az St)
9:28.48 3k - Mark Matusak (Loyola/Cal) 8:08.98 3k - Billy Nelson (Taft/Colorado) 13:46.80 5k
Ana Gjesdal (Crescenta Valley/Glen JC/Mich) 9:37.54 3k - Brenda Martinez (Rancho
Cucamonga/UC Riverside) 4:49.87 Mile
Tons of action nation-wide!!

 
Harvard-Westlake "grad" day at Harvard-Yale-Princton Tri Meet
Jared Bell (left above) wins Mile 4:11.18 - Katie DeWitt (rt) 6th 3k 10:05.25
former school-mate at HW Jeff Lachman 3rd SP for Yale 46-10.25 and
8th in the weight throw at 44-09.75

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State Best Indoor Marks 2006
"A" - Mark achieved at altitude - Oversized = larger than 200m Track - "c" = mark converted from yards
outd = outdoors (weight marks indoors or outdoors this time of year)

Boys	Event	Girls
*Jahvid Best (Salesian, Richmond) 6.44 A	55m	*Jeneba Tarmoh (Mt. Pleasant, SJ) 6.86 A
-Pearson Crichlow (Logan, Union City) 22.35 A	200m	*Jeneba Tarmoh (Mt. Pleasant, SJ) 23.94 A
-Alex Goldberg (Lodi) 51.60 oversize	400m	**Amber Purvis (Benicia) 56.57 oversize
-Matt Cobette (Logan, Union City) 2:03.32 A	800m	-Rosa Magana (Holy Names, Oakl) 2:18.40 A
-Michael Coe (Cabrillo, Lompoa) 4:07.30	Mile	*Shannon Murakami (Saugus) 5:08.10
	2 Mile
*Terry Prentice (Diamond Ranch, Pomona) 7.55	55m HH	**Vashti Thomas (Mt. Pleasant, SJ) 7.95 A
	4x200m	Merrill West , Tracy 1:46.46 A
James Logan (Union City) 3:30.17 A	4x400m	Long Beach Wilson 4:03.63c
-Nick Armstrong (LB Poly) 6-06	HJ	-Shana Woods (Long Beach Poly) 5-04
-Scott Roth (Granite Bay) 16-10 A	PV	Bagan (Granite Bay), Franklin (St Francis), Stokke (N Harb), Tamura (Hunt Bch) 11-08 A
*Terry Prentice (Diamond Ranch, Pomona) 24-00	LJ	V. Thomas (Mt. P), T. Stewart (Log) 18-09.75
-Erick Quick (Liberty, Bakersfield) 48-10 A	TJ	*Ke'Nyia Richardson (Holy Names) 41-08.75
*Tyler Dragon (Clovis West, Fresno) 55-01.5	SP	*Rosario Sanchez (Selma) 41-00.5
*Raul Gonzalez (Alta Loma) 58-09 outd	Wt	-Daniella Thu (Monte Vista, SV) 45-09.25 outd

Corrections or Additions (with meet/site/date) - Email us

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2005-2006 Collegiate Commitments

Ben Sitler signs with Princeton - St. Francis (Mountain View) star
heads to the east coast to continue his super running!
Vacaville's Cecily Lemmon heads to BYU!
Danny Belch of Torrey Pines (SD) to Stanford!
Full 2005-2006 Signees Index       Please email us with additional signings!

Football's Need For Speed!
Some California track talent is staying in the Pac-10 for football!
photo by Dave Casper
Hoping to sprint out under the long bombs thrown by whoever
wins the quarterback job at USC - Jamere Holland - the nation's top
prep returnee for the 2006 spring HS season in the 100m at 10.38.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CAL
Garrett Green (Notre Dame, Sherman Oaks)
Jamere Holland (Taft, Woodland Hills)
Vincent Joseph (Long Beach Poly)
Travon Patterson (Long Beach Poly)

OREGON
Andre Crenshaw (Antelope Valley)
Derrick Jones (Long Beach Poly)
Devin Mays (Lincoln, Stockton)
Chad Peppars (Loyola, Los Angeles)

UCLA
Terrance Austin (Long Beach Poly)
Darius Savage (Morse, San Diego)

ARIZONA STATE
Rodney Glass (Notre Dame, Sherman Oaks)

STANFORD
Tyrone McGraw (Archbishop Riordan, San Francisco)
Richard Sherman (Dominguez, Compton)

CALIFORNIA
Charles Amadi (Edison, Fresno)
James Montgomery (Cordova, Rancho Cordova)

WASHINGTON STATE
Derrell Hutsona (Helix, La Mesa)

Rivals.com rating of the Pac-10 football recruiting classes versus the nation!
1 Southern Cal
17 UCLA
18 Arizona
19 California

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