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***2006 DyeStatCal
Featured Meets***
  
 
   
DyeStatCal Athletes
of the Week As the season turns the corner into April, whether or
not the weather or weather the whether or whatever, some of the big
meets are upon us!! Just about all the state's powers gathered at Arcadia
with a show that was probably the equal to any in the meet's history
with a great crowd to cheer a ton of great performances on. Meanwhile,
a couple of teams traveled to Austin, Texas, where in the Lone Star
state you had better come to run, jump, and throw, with the State Meet
site for the Texas Relays always a great competition. BOYS ATHLETE OF WEEK - Jamere Holland (Taft, Woodland Hills - LA)
After an absolutely stunning state meet last June in Sacramento, where Holland looked soooooooo smooth in crushing the state's best at 100 and 200 meters, the San Fernando Valley star set off for football glory. He had a super fall for the Taft squad, catching 34 passes for the team for 911 yards (that's 26.8 yards per catch) with 15 touchdowns. He signed with the USC Trojans late in the winter, with the FB recruiting rush often sidetracking the senior spring season for many a Southland prep. With a few more pounds on the frame than his junior year, the twelfth grade Holland had his first big test of the spring this past weekend against a fine group at the Arcadia meet. If we were giving a grade it would be close to perfect A+, as he took advantage of a +1.9 mps wind in the 100 to blaze a personal best 10.36 and defeat local rival Rodney Glass (10.48) and the gang, then returned to take a 200 group at 21.09 that included Seeded 100m winner Jahvid David (10.39w) and 46.24 400 star JT Scheuerman from Colorado, among others. It was a super weekend of racing for the Taft star, with the "Jamere gear" something to behold, as the LA City star accelerates to top speed, and has an uncanny ability to look effortless as he continually eases away from the nation's best!
The relays count double scoring in the Texas state meet, and with the state competition at the University of Texas on the site where the Texas Relays were run the last weekend, you can imagine the Lone Star state gets with it in the baton events! With the national lists both boys and girls typically flooded with Texas squads, one senses the stick events are a local favorite there. Kye Courtney of Hawthorne, who started the traditon of California squads traveling to the Austin affair, used to describe the atmosphere there, where kind of "how dare you come from California and try to show us how to run this stuff!!" Well, this past weekend, Coach Terry Kennedy's Long Beach Wilson Bruins rolled into the Relays there and walked away with all the straight relays from the 4x1 to the 4x8 in a stunning weekend of racing. We would have loved to have been there as the Bruins never fared worse than first in qualifying and finals' efforts in the 4x1, 4x2, 4x4, and 4x8! Ebony Collins even raced an 800, bringing that 4x800 team home a winner!! Congrats! Summary of the weekend: (won three prelims and
four finals!!) Athletes of the Week - Sections Statewide Sac Joaquin Section Boys - Scott Crawford (Oak Ridge, El Dorado Hills) - Local star faced a super 800 group at Arcadia and came off the final turn there and raced to a win in a stunning 1:51.60, a State and Nation leading time for the year. The contest included a holding off of powerful finishing 2005 State Champ Jesse O'Brien (San Pasqual, Escondido), who was second at 1:52.05. Girls - Davis junior Lauren Guerrieri was another Sac Joaquin shocker, with the discus thrower improving out to 151-03 in a super field (six over 147-08) for fourth place with the #6 throw in the entire nation for the 2006 spring season! Southern
Section
Girls - Sa'de Williams (Rancho Cucamonga) - the Defending State 400m champ had a huge match-up with Brittany Jones from Florida at Arcadia, and was catching the 2006 National leader down the straightaway before the visitor caught a spike and fell. Williams raced away to a 53.52 win, and returned to record a 24.55 for the 200m for fifth in the Invitational contest. Williams added a leg on a 46.85 4x1 squad and a rocket anchor leg on a 3:46.21 4x4 team. Central Coast Section Girls - Renisha Robinson (Mitty, San Jose) the junior showed a ton of heart at Arcadia, blasting out at 28.5 and 62.6 for the 400 and taking a field right out of their element as the romped to a 2:12.56 win that is the state's #2 and nation's #4 outdoor clocking for the year. San Diego Section Girls -La Costa Canyon in the Relays - the Girls 4x1 mile group raced 20:59.75, just under a 5:15 average on Friday for a state leading and #2 outdoor time in the nation this spring, then came back on Saturday to record a n 11:59.38 Distance medley, the #3 time in the state and nation so far this year. North Coast Section Boys - Ray Stewart (Logan, Union City) - Ray
had a couple of great High Hurdle runs at Arcadia. As the winner
of the Open meet at 14.44 (0 wind) he was given a lane in the Night
Seeded contest, with a second win there at 14.66 (-1.6) Central Section Boys - Tyler Dragon, the latest of the Clovis West weight stars, was 59-07 for fourth at Arcadia in the Shot Put, the #4 mark statewide this spring.
Northern
Section Boys - Adam Fissori (Corning), a senior has steadily improved this wet spring out to 52-03 in the Shot Put. Girls - Lindsey Kirschman (Enterprise, Redding) looks ready to go her senior spring, with a nine second 800 win at the Avis Kelley Meet at Gilroy at 2:14.82, with a 5:12.83 1600 win that had her 100 meters ahead of the pack. Los Angeles section Boys - Kevin Lashley (North Hollywood) emerged on the statewide stage in the Triple Jump this past weekend, taking the Arcadia Open division at 48-01w (+3.7), then improving to the State's #4 mark outdoors with a 48-02 (+0.7) effort for third in the Invitational session Saturday night after he was given a spot off his day win! Girls - Nijah Nelms (Birmingham, Lake Balboa) rocketed a fine 12.04 100m (+1.8 wind) at Arcadia for third in the Seeded contest there and helped the team to a 48.17 in the 400m relay for eighth against the State's best in the Invitational race.
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