Jordan Hasay destroys Nat'l Age 12 5K Road best with 17:05 effort in Santa Barbara

Hot off a double distance win in the USATF Junior Olympics in Eugene, Oregon right at the turn of July into August, twelve year old Jordan Hasay, a resident of Arroyo Grande and an eighth grader at St. Patrick's School in that town, hit the racing circuit a couple of weeks later with some quite impressive results!

The McConnell's Ice Cream Endurance Event Series 5K was held on a certified course in Santa Barbara on Sunday, August 15th. The Twelve-year old Hasay placed 5th overall in the competition (official results below), winning the overall 14 and below division (male and female) and coming in 5th out of 116 competitors in the event with a time of 17:06. A bit of investigation on the Running USA site has the previous national best for a 12 year old 17:45 by Briana Jackucewicz in a New York race from 2003, with Jordan's run obviously a huge reduction in the previous age all-time American best! With her pre-high school status, Hasay will be out looking for competition this coming year and we are sure looking forward to more impressive results.

We have included some notes on the age-record holders over the 5k distance up through the next few years after age 12, with some interesting notes the national and local participants who hold standards up through the years.

26th Annual McConnell's Ice Cream Endurance Events - 5K Competition
15 August, 2004 Santa Barbara, California
Plc Num Finisher Age City St Time Min/Mi --Division-- Plc

1 503 Zachary Ardell-Smith 22 Arroyo Grande CA 16:05 5:11 1/6 M_20-29
2 365 Michael Kinter 40 Morro Bay CA 16:27 5:18 1/11 M_40-49
3 400 Carl Legleiter 25 Goleta CA 16:32 5:20 2/6 M_20-29
4 401 Ryan Borger 20 Denver CO 17:04 5:30 3/6 M_20-29
5 357 Jordan Hasay 12F Arroyo Grande CA 17:06 5:31 1/8 F_14/Un

FEMALE US Age Road 5K Records (from Running USAC Road Racing Information Center)

F 12 - 17:45 BRIANA JACKUCEWICZ 102890 FARMINGDALE, NY FREIHOFER'S RUN FOR WOMEN, NY, 053103 (notes on Briana after she won the National Interscholastic Indoor 5k championship this past March - "13 year-old Briana Jackucewicz (b. 28-Oct-1990) has won the 5000m at the National Scholastic meet at the Armory Track & Field Center in New York City. The tiny Jackucewicz, just 150 cm and 34 kg (4' 11", 75 pounds), passed the 3000m mark in 9:55.2 and finished the race after lapping the field in 16:43.02. "That broke the 21-year old scholastic record of 16:52.48, set by future Olympic marathoner Cathy Schiro (Dover, N.H.) in 1983." reported Murphy, who publishes Eastern Track, X-Country X-Press and is the expert behind most track broadcasts on U.S. television.
Jackucewicz, who attends the Howell Middle School and lives in Farmingdale, N.J., races frequently and always aggressively, often topping much more experienced runners. Last November, she finished 14th overall at the famous Manchester Road Race in Connecticut, beating 2:29 marathoner Deeja Youngquist. She finished 26th overall at the Falmouth Road Race last August, one place ahead of Olympic gold medalist, Joan Samuelson. Jackucewicz is coached by her father, Roger, who accompanies her on her training runs on his bicycle. The older Jackucewicz vehmently denies that his daughter is overtrained or pressed to train past her natural limits. "She loves it," he told RRW last June at the Freihofer's Run for Women where Briana ran 17:45 at age 12 a U.S. single-age record."

F 13 - 17:11 CARRIE GARRITSON 111176 FULLERTON, CA SANTA ANITA SPRINGS, CA, 052090

F 13 - 16:08a CARRIE GARRITSON 111176 RUNNING SPRINGS, CA FONTANA DAYS, CA, 042190 - Carrie Garritson was a part of the famed Garritson running family in Southern California and had a fine prep career, making it to the National Prep Cross Country Championships during her local career and believe she finished out her collegiate running at the University of Alabama in the SEC - she is listed with two records here as I am quite sure the Fontana Days races are "downhill"

F 14 - 17:08 ERIN DAVIS 111478 GANSEVOORT, NY RACE FOR THE CURE, VY, 080193
F 15 - 17:15 ERIN DAVIS 111478 GANSEVOORT, NY RACE FOR THE CURE, VT, 073194 - Erin was a part of the famed Saratoga Springs HS program in upper state New York, and won the National Prep Cross Country Championship as just a ninth grader for that program. She had a fine HS career, but was never able to move back to the top of the pack in that event. She did her collegiate running at Penn State.

F 16 - 16:45 MOLLY HUDDLE 083184 ELMIRA, NY CHRIS THATER MEMORIAL, NY, 082601
F 17 - 16:23A R MOLLY HUDDLE 083184 ELMIRA, NY HERITAGE CHRISTIAN HOME, NY, 081002 - Molly was New Yorker who ran 4:43 for a mile and 10:06 for two miles as a prep senior, finishing the year as the fastest prep in the nation that 2002 season. She placed 6th in the 2003 NCAA Division I CC Championships, and was 7th in the Olympic Trials this past summer over 5000m.

F 18 - 16:42 - DARCY ARREOLA 080468 EL CAJON, CA CARLSBAD 5000, CA, 072687 - San Diego area prep distance star went to Cal State Northridge and was an NCAA Div II and I All-American during a fine career at CSUN.

F 19 - 16:39 - JAMIE PARK 061071 SANTA BARBARA, CA CARLSBAD 5000, CA, 041491 - a former Santa Barbara HS distance star in Track and Cross-Country, Park ran for Cal Poly SLO and the University of Arkansas during a fine collegiate career.

F 20 – 16:03 – DEENA DROSSIN – 021473 FAYETTEVILLE, AR CARLSBAD 5000, CA 032893 - former Agoura HS and University of Arkansas star (Lance Harter, former Cal Poly SLO Coach and still at University of Arkansas tie-in with Park, she went to Arkansas when he left for that school and Drossin was recruited from Agoura HS to Fayetteville, Ark) currently in Athens to race the Olympic Marathon!