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Super Frosh Female Hurdle Duo
will have 2005 impact!!

Whitney McGee and Dahlys Marshall

February 9th, 2005

Super young Hurdle two-some - Whitney McGee (l) & Dahlys Marshall (right middle)

As we prepare for the season and go through our previews due to items like hurdle height distance and sometimes even figuring out where an athlete is from with the often frustrating meet recording system of unattached athletes (we would like to see Unat/hometown) there will be some young athletes, especially on the female side, who have done some amazing things as middle schoolers who will be factors on the prep scene this year.

A couple of this group are female hurdlers from the Golden State who went 1-2 in the 100 meter Hurdles at the National JO Championships last year in the Youth Girls (13-14 year old) division, and 1-3 in the 200 meter barrier distance last summer. Whitney McGee, pride of the Acorn Oscar Bailey TC, this year a ninth grader at Berkeley HS, and Dahlys (say it "Dallas") Marshall, who is a ninth grader at Valley Christiain HS in San Jose, had marks at lower height (the youth girls run 30" 100 hurdles as opposed to the 33" height used by preps) or off-distances (200m youth hurdles) that were outstanding. They will make a dent in the awards budget at the local through state level before they are through as preps in the next four years.

One state is left running the 30" hurdles at the high school level, Iowa, with two high school athletes from that state the only nation-wide to run faster than the wind-legal 14.39 recorded by Whitney McGee as an eighth grader during the 2004 season (She had a 14.18w best). The Berkeley Yellowjacket frosh athlete will fit in nicely in area up through statewide action at the prep level immediately. McGee was the winner of the USAT JO Youth Nationals 100 meter barrier event (30" hurdles) at 14.40 over Dahlys Marshall's 14.48, with the Valley Christian frosh Marshall the top CCS short hurdler stepping into the 2005 outdoor season. Over the 200 meter hurdle distance McGee raced a 26.98 JO Youth division winner, with a familiar name in second, super all-arounder Kiani Profit (Muir, Pasadena), then Marshall third there at 28.04. Whitney should be able to step on the track and run under 45 seconds for the prep 300 meter hurldles, with no CCS long hurdler returning under 45 seconds, so Marshall will be a big factor in that event at the local level immediately! We notice that Dahlys is playing Varsity Basketball as a first year prep this winter, so she should be in good shape when she gets her "track legs" underneath her in a few weeks. Famed Char Foster (Florida) raced 26.63 for a National JO 200m hurdle Record back during her eighth grade year - she set the National Frosh 300m Hurdles record the next year of 40.99 (which Ebony Collins took down to 40.81 last year). McGee, at 26.98 should at least be able to run under 42, a time achieved by seven high-schoolers nation-wide last year!

2004 Elite Youth National Lists:

2004 - Youth Girl's 100 Meter Hurdles
1 Whitney McGee 00:14.00 (meet/site date on this effort?)
2 Brittany Carroll '91 00:14.29(O)
3 London Finley 00:14.44 - 5th at JO's - attending View Park Charter School - Article on school
View Park is listed as a Southern Section School in that area's preview so she will be Div IV SS
4 Ashley Bethune '90 00:14.47(A)
5 Dahlys Marshall 00:14.48

2004 - Youth Girl's 200 Meter Hurdles

1 Whitney McGee 00:26.98
2 Brittany Carroll '91 00:27.15(A)
3 Kiani Profit 00:27.63
4 Karissa Dalessandro '91 00:27.65(A)
5 Joenisha Vinson 00:27.92
6 Jndia Cleveland 00:27.94
7 Dahlys Marshall 00:28.04