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***2006 DyeStatCal
Featured Meets***
  
 
   
DyeStatCal Athletes
of the Week One reaches for the stars in his event, one scoots along
in her event at a tad over five feet tall, with both assuredly
giving us a spring full of super efforts in what should be a very exciting
2006 California Prep Track and Field season! The twosome really points to the varied, contrasting,
and exciting nature of our sport and its events, with the
pole vaulting Roth destined to leave the prep ranks as one of US history's
greatest, and the distance racing Hasay carving a wake early in her
prep career
that appears to also have the sky as the limit, hers with
her running. Roth has had a super career,
and he hopes to take his third consecutive title in the state affair
down south this June! Hasay, one of prep
history's most decorated age-group runners ever, had a hiccup or two
along the
early way this Fall as she adjusted from the "pedal to
the metal" age-group
style of racing, with impressive "near-instant" maturity
that had her confidently handle the nation's best prep harriers in
the Foot Both have let no one down with their start to the 2006 spring!!
BOYS ATHLETE OF WEEK - Scott Roth (Granite Bay) Scott, as mentioned above, is attempting to complete a string of three consecutive State vault titles, and he heads towards that June competition early on with a full head of steam! Roth and teammate Ryan Shuler have created quite a dynasty at the Sac Joaquin school, with Ryan winning the 2003 state title as just a frosh athlete!! Roth put together a super indoor season that will finish up this coming weekend. Scott was a 16-10 winner at the Run for the Dream Indoor in Fresno in Mid-January, looking very sharp at the start of his senior year! At the late January Vault Summit in Reno, where the vault maniacs far and wide gather for a great weekend celebration of the event, he was second on misses to rival Jordan Scott, with both at 16-06. With the bar cranked to a national prep indoor record of 17-07 it was Roth who came closest and just narrowly missed that lofty height, setting the standard for effort during the winter! At the Simplot Indoor Games in Idaho in mid-February Scott was 16-09 for second behind Arkansas rival Spencer McCorkel. What a series of marks!! Continuing right into the outdoor season, Roth has not seemed slowed in the least by the weather which seemed to belt the northern half of the state in pretty good style lately, cranking a 17-00 clearance in the season's first dual meet the week of February 27th! He followed that up with a 15-06 two foot win at the Sacramento State Relays over the weekend. The hot and heavy action for our AOW will continue this weekend, where he heads to Landover, Maryland, for the Nike Indoor Nationals competition, featuring as his major competition, none other than Jordan Scott and Spencer McCorkel! Wow!! Tune back in for the headlines from that event, with DyeStatCal's Rich Gonzalez on-site for one of prep history's titanic vault competitions! The National Prep record indoors 17-06.5 by Pat Manson (Colorado) from 1986, with Brandon Richards (San Marcos, Santa Barbara) 1985 the Golden State undercover standard of 17-06. Brent Burns (Acalanes, Lafayette) 1987 and Scott Slover (Leland, San Jose) from 1994 are the two others Californians over 17-00 with bests right at that mark in indoor state history.
Jordan achieved amazing things as an essentially unpressed age-group star, with the script of such an athlete arriving at the prep ranks and undergoing some significant adjustment not one unknown to the distance running scene. Racing against some of the best in the nation during fall competitions, the coaching team of Leslie Monaco and Dr. Armando Siqueiros, the latter a senior age runner of some note and with a son on the team, smoothed out the racing effort and the rest was history! Romping through invitational, sectional, and statewide competitions in impressive style, Hasay raced the Foot Locker Western Regional course in a record equaling time of 17:14, with that standard established by the Golden State's most dominant prep ever, Amber Trotter of Ukiah. At the National finals it was another leap into the unknown, with a sophisticated and very talented group of top runners from all across the country, many of whom had more than a few years of top competition at this level. How the frosh star would respond to the days and nights away from home, with a very, very competitive contest at the end of a stressful few days another big question to be answered. A+ was the grade once, again, with a well thought out race plan that had the frosh star run comfortably with the pack, then steadily edge away when the running became difficult to a fourteen second triumph over what was one of the best prep distance groups ever gathered. Wow! After some time away from competition, which made sense off the fall racing schedule, Jordan hit the oval in early March this past weekend for the Stanford Open Meet 3000 Meter. We will defer to the race description by Coach Siqueiros passed on
to us by Jordan's father: As the runners lined up, the wind lessened and the rain
stopped..."bang" and
they were off! Within the first 100m it was obvious, no one
wanted to take the lead. Jordan, remembering her instructions
slowed the pace in attempt to get some else to lead. As she came around
the first lap of 79 seconds, it was too slow! With a quick
glance to the coach, receiving a thumbs up sign, she was off to get back on pace! Back on pace she did as she kept the pressure
on! Soon there was no What can you say--the best performance of the week, and our DyeStatCal Athlete of the Week, Jordan Hasay who broke the old national frosh record of 9:28.50 by the famed Julia Stamps from 1994!! As we started with, what a spring it should be - check back in!!! Athletes of the Week - Sections Statewide San Diego Section
Boys - Carl Dargitz (Rancho Bernardo, San Diego) blazed to a 1:58.50 800 meter win in the Santa Margarita Eagle Invitational.
Girls - Kasey Kearin (Rancho Bernardo, San Diego) 18-00 long jump winner as her school came north for the Santa Margarita Eagle Invitational this past weekend. Southern Section Boys - Nick Robinson (El Toro) super field event double with impressive improvements for the UCLA signee. Nick took the shot put (58-08) and the discus (183-04) at the Irvine Field Event Summit this past weekend.
Girls - Deana Carson (Wilson, Long Beach) - The Baylor signee started her senior 2006 season in busy style at the Azusa Invitational at Citrus College. A nice 19-04.5 long jump early on had the star step out on to the track and with her Bruin teammates help 1:05.93 shuttle hurdles and 1:38.35 4x200 relay winners, the latter pretty darn quick, it would have been the #7 time in the entire nation for the 2005 season! Amazing range and excellence in a series of events! Los Angeles section Central Section Boys - Octavio Ruiz (McFarland) super 8:54.2 3000 meter run at the Super Seven Invitational in the North Coast Section this past weekend, his distance medley relay team was also a fine 10:35.1 during the weekend's action.
Girls - Buchanan's Lauren Saylor is rolling in to track season in fine style, with a 2:23.7 (800) and 5:11.95 (1600m) distance double at the Sanger Spring Classic. Central Coast Section Boys - Ben Sitler (St. Francis, Mountain View) with a 4:13.5 relay carry for 1600 meters in the Mt. Pleasant Relays in taking his team to an 18:28.54 win. The Princeton signee looks ready for a super spring. Girls - Liza Lozovatskaya (St. Ignatius, San Francisco) super 12-04 pole vault start for her senior year in the Mt. Pleasant Relays at San Jose City College this past weekend. North Coast Section
Boys - David Klech (California, San Ramon) - Klech, UCLA bound, came
out purring in his first dual meet, showing his range with 14.0 in
the high hurdles, 6-06 in the high jump, 23-00 in the long jump, and
2:01.1 for the 800 meters. Someone looks ready to go! Girls - James Logan Girls 400m relay, who blazed 46.89, undoubtedly the nation’s quickest outdoor clocking for the spring, with their Mt. Pleasant Relays win. (Marshall of Fort Bend 47.11 fastest in Texas so far if you wondered!). A 45.20 school record at Logan (from 1996) gives you a nice goal to aim at (the 45.20 is prep’s =#12 team ever!). San Francisco/Oakland Sections
Boys - Cameron Island (Skyline, Oakland) - San Jose State bound footballer blasted a 10.77 wind legal 100 to take the Skyline Invitational century title this past weekend. One of the state's top sprint returnees should be looking for a dynamite senior spring season!
Girls - Dantia Hudson (Skyline, Oakland) - Dantia was a 15.07 100 Meter Hurdle winner in the Skyline Invitational this past weekend. Sac Joaquin Section Boys - Joe Fraijo (St. Mary’s, Stockton) exploded in the weight events, with a near four foot improvement from his best last year in the shot put, out to 58-07.5 in the Sierra Invitational, and he added a 165-04 in the Discus to a great weekend.
Girls - Alex Kosinski (Oakridge, El Dorado Hills) came out very strong after a fine fall that had her finish up at the Foot Locker Nationals in Cross Country, with sub 5:00 (1600) and a 2:12.3 (800) relay legs at the Clark Massey Relays at Cordova over the weekend. Northern Section
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