Eddie Hart Olympian
T&F Education Clinic
July 14 @ Pittsburg HS

TRACK & FIELD

USATF Youth Nationals: Day One
McCullough sets Intermed. Boys nat'l hammer record!

CROSS-COUNTRY

Who's Back For 2007!
Boys Division IV - 2006 BD4 Video - Boys Div V - Girls DV
Cross-Country Pre-Season All-State Boys -- #11 to #16!
We count down the "Top 10" on the holiday!

MORE NEWSMAKERS...
CdM's Cummings is praised   Alberto Salazar hospitalized
Passport problems keep Primm off Team USA
New NTN at-large process  - NTN reg'l championships - NTN video

Coach Openings
College Prep (NCS) T&F; Mater Dei (SS) - XC asst; Notre Dame (CCS) XC

Summer/'07 XC Calendar
Summer T&F Calendar
Yuba-Sutter XC is 9/21

                  DyeStatCal Featured Meets
     
Info for HS runners at Baldwin Park
Pride of the Valley 5k on August 4th!

  DyeStatCal Featured Camps  
       

Check here for the full 2007 DyeStatCal Running Camps Index!

2007 USATF Youth Nationals
Tuesday, July 3rd to Sunday, July 8th @ Benedictine University (Lisle, Illinois)
Meet Index Area

Day 1 Report
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
   
Photos (l-to-r) by Kirby Lee, Lori Thompson and Doug Speck
Conor McCullough (Chaminade HS, West Hills) soph readies for next week's  World Youth Games
with an Intermediate Boys Division national record in the hammer on Tuesday via a win in 237-11! 
He set both the U.S. Age-16 & Sophomore Class records with a 243-11 effort earlier this spring.
Akawkaw Ndipagbor (Together Youth Elite TC/MS) placed third in Youth Girls Pentathlon
while posting 15.67/100mLH and 2:18.62/800m marks in the process! Kierstin Kirkland
(Together Youth Elite TC/North HS, Riv) sits in fourth after first day of Young Women's Heptathlon
First Day Summary - Conor's Intermed. Division Nat'l record

The above meet includes the following Californians who are on Team USA for the
upcoming World Youth Championships (July 11-15) at Ostrava in the Czech Republic:
Conor McCullough - Reginald Wyatt - Jordan Hasay - Kiani Profit - Ashton Purvis
Turquoise Thompson (Note: Julian Purvis, not competing in IL, is also part of Nat'l Team)

World Youth Championships Meet Information

2007 Pan American Junior Championships
Thursday, July 6th to Saturday, July 8th @ San Paulo, Brazil
U.S. "under-20" age team to South America
Bryshon Nellum, A.J. Acosta, Jonathan Williams, Scott Roth, Zuheir Sharif, Nick Robinson,
Khrystal Carter, Nicole Blood, Kauren Tarver, Tori Anthony, Jamesha Youngblood,
Ashika Charan, Ke'Nyia Richardson and Shana Woods all will be in action!!
Team Roster - Meet Index Area

Long Beach Poly Star/Univ South Carolina
All-American Shalonda Solomon turns pro!

picture by Photo Run
Prep Record Books Still have 5 National Relay Records set by Jackrabbit squads featuring
Shalonda (Indoor 4x2, 4x4, Outdoor 4x1, 4x2, 4x4) - in addition to her relay honors
individually Shalonda sits #10 AT California prep 100m 11.35 - #4 200m 22.82
Who will ever forget those classic races with Jasmine Baldwin her senior year of 2004!
Read about one of the State's All-Time Greats and her decision

Summer Age-Group Action
Momentum builds towards late July Nat'l USATF JO's in So Cal

AAU Region 13b Champs
Saturday, June 17th, 2007 @ Cathedral Catholic HS (San Diego)
Mariah Gibson (Lancaster/?? MS) Int G HJ 5-04; Isaiah Sims (San Diego/Univ City HS) Yng M 200 2195 nwi;
Joe Berry (Hatboro-Horsham HS, Pa) Yng M PV 16-00;
Meet Summary

AAU Region 13a Champs
Friday-Saturday June 15-16th, 2007 @ Tulare HS
Ciara Brewer (Union City MS) Yth G LJ 18-06.5 nwi; Dominique Lauderdale (Bakersfield/Ridgeview HS)
Yng W 100 12.03 nwi; 200 24.53 nwi; Deja Edwards (Elk Grove/Whitney HS) Yng W LJ 18-06.t nwi;
Taylor Nichols (Bakersfield/Stockdale HS) Yng W TJ 39-00 nwi. Anthony Riggins (Valley/St. Patricks-
St. Vincent's HS) Int B 100 10.96 nwi; Roman Gray (Elk Grove/Laguna Creek) Yng M 400 48.65 -
LJ 23-04.25 nwi; David Charleston (Bakersfield/West HS) Yng M TJ 47-11 nwi
Meet Summary

Central California USATF Association Champs
Saturday, June 9th, 2007 @ Clovis HS
Kayla Kovar (Ridgecrest/Burroughs HS) Int G Discus 155-05; Dominique Lauderdale
(Bakersfield/Ridgeview HS) Yng W 100 11.82 nwi 200 24.71 nwi; Brandon Henderson
(Bakersfield/ ?? HS) Yng M 100 10.61 nwi; Kyle Alston (Team Raw/Hoover HS) 21.70 200
Meet Summary

San Diego/Imperial USATF Association Champs
Fri-Sun, June 8th-10th, 2007 @ San Ysidro HS
Nico Reeves (Mercury San Diego TC/Mt. Miguel HS) Yng M 200 21.96 nwi;
400 48.44; Ronald Brookins (San Diego TC/Helix HS) Yng M 110mHH 14.61 nwi.
Meet Summary

Region 14 USATF Multi-Event Champs
Sat-Sun, June 16-17th, 2007 @ Clovis HS
Young Women's Heptathlon - Eve King (City Track/University SF HS) 4404; Rachel Weltz
(Sierra Foothills/Bear River HS) 4324; Young Men Decathlon Joshua Cusick (Mission Valley TC/
St. Lawrence Academy) 5934; Michael Keating (Unat/Paso Robles HS) 5434. 
Weltz 5-07 HJ - Cusick 14-01.25 PV
Meet Summary

Pacific Association USATF Association Champs
Thurs-Sat June 22-24th, 2007 @ Granada HS (Livermore)


photo by Robert Wallingford
Maurice Valentine Jr - above actual 7-00.25 HJ for Soph leads Pacific Association Action!!
Moving up the ladder as one of the nation's top young jumpers - Oakland Police Athletic
League/Castro Valley HS star records State's best prep jump in early summer action!!
Very solid affair - check summary area for more highlights
Meet Summary

So Cal Association USATF Association Champs
Sat-Sun June 9-10, 2007 @ Cerritos College


Photo courtesy of South Orange County Wildcats Track Club
Two of the state's all-time great young hurdlers are frosh stars DeValle Pedrogo (rt - South Orange
County Wildcats/Mission Viejo HS; 14.46 this past spring) and Dale Morgan (left-LA Jets/Taft
HS, Woodland Hills; 14.68 and 14.59 nwi) battling above in recent Junior Olympics Action!
Fine young female sprinters duel with Valexisia Droughn (Together Elite/Oxnard MS) Yth G 100 12.13 nwi;
Akawkaw Ndipagbor (Together Elite) Yth G 200 24.59  nwi, Droughn 24.97, plus Akawkaw Yth G 400 56.00
Meet Summary

Class of 2007 Collegiate Commitments
Please email us with additional signings! Athletes only are to email us (no college coaches, please!)

Brian Cole (St. Helena) to Williams College; Erick Garcia (Parlier) to Fresno State; Champelle Brown (Fairfield)
to Cal Poly SLO; Derek Hammond (Franklin, Stockton) to Cal State Sacramento; Nick Stearns (El Diamante)
to Fresno State; Marisa Garza (Paso Robles) to San Francisco State; Tiffany Hannah (Edison-Fr) to Cal State Hayward;
Tiera Hilliard (Mayfair) to Fresno State; Gary Lee (Hoover-SD) to Fresno State; Christian deGlymes (Del Oro) to Vanguard
Signings Page

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