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adidas
Midwest Indoor Track Classic
becomes DyeStat Charter Sponsor
BALTIMORE MD 8/24/01 - DyeStat today
named the adidas Midwest Indoor Track Classic (MITC) a Charter
Sponsor of DyeStat.
MITC is a new meet founded by Chris Lester
of Omaha Nebraska. The inaugural running will be February
9, 2002 at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln NE. The Devaney
Sports Complex there has a new, state of the art indoor track
and field facility that is one of the finest in the country.
Lester plans to make the meet a major mid-winter destination
for high school athletes and is also scheduling several elite
events for world class athletes.
Charter Sponsor status is given to those organizations
that commit significant support to DyeStat in the 2001-2002
school year, a period that is critical for the future of DyeStat
as the premier high school Web site in America. Charter Sponsors
will be recognized in the footer of all DyeStat pages for
5 years. MITC joins Nike, Great American Cross Country, and
the National Scholastic Sports Foundation as the fourth Charter
Sponsor.
College
Choices 2001
1,663 college choices updated as of 8/23
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wrapup |
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DyeStat ends coverage of the 2000-2001
school year with a huge statistical feast:
- DyeStat All-Americans
- our first attempt at selecting the
best of the best - the most
outstanding runners, throwers, and jumpers in America
in 2001. The DyeStat
All-American team has 39 male and 44 female athletes
and relays, plus many more honorable mentions. Season
performance lists are given for each All-American.
- DyeStat Elite - final
2001 outdoor rankings include 5,090 performances
- the top 100 athletes in the USA in each event. We
had to keep it open this late because many of the
best marks of the year came from post-season national
meets, Junior Olympics, and international competition.
The database ended the season with 9,000 performances
from 863 meets.
- New faces - DyeStat
Elite performances by freshmen or younger athletes
in 2000-2001. Most are freshmen (class of 2004), but
some are even younger. A rising 7th grader, Brandi
Cross of Houston TX, tops the list of newcomers in
the girls 400! The New
Faces lists are a future book for national champions
of 2004 or sooner.
- Top returnees -
Who will replace the superstars of 2001? The answer
lies in the 1,280 DyeStat Elite performances by undergraduates
in 2001. We list the top
returnees to 2001-2002, ranked by event, with
analysis of the likely national champions.
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Elite events added to
adidas Midwest Indoor Classic
World class miler Jason Pyrah and hurdler Jenny Adams
will run in Nebraska at the new high school meet in February.
More
Bobby Smith tests positive
The Hopatcong NJ javelin
thrower has been disqualified from his victory at the USATF
Junior Nationals Championship and received a public warning
from the US Anti Doping
Agency for a substance offense.
USADA said Smith tested positive
for ephedrine, a prohibited substance under IAAF rules. The
agency said Smith accepted the maximum sanction for a first
offense involving ephedrine. "I was unaware that the
over-the-counter supplements I was taking contained a prohibited
substance. I made a mistake, which I will never forget. To
all young athletes, learn from my mistake, and make sure you
know what's in your supplements," Smith said.
Smith, who has a football
scholarship to attend Monmouth University, won three national
championships in a row in two weekends in June (Golden West,
AOC nationals, and Jr Nationals). Monmouth University provided
this statement to DyeStat on Smith's status:
"As a result of testing
positive on the USATF/IAAF drug test, Bobby Smith had to disclose
to the NCAA that he had tested positive on a prior drug test
administered by a non-NCAA governing body. Because of this
Smith must take and pass an NCAA-administered drug test before
he can participate in an official athletic game or contest
at Monmouth University. Upon passing the
NCAA-administered drug test, Smith would then be entered into
the NCAA random drug testing pool with all of the other athletes.
"Smith's grant-in-aid, athletic and academic
standing at Monmouth University will not be affected because
the test was administered prior to his matriculating at Monmouth
University and drug testing by the NCAA and USATF/IAAF are
not reciprocating. He is currently practicing with the Monmouth
University football squad and has expressed interest in participating
on the Monmouth University track and field squad."
Short Takes
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Nik Arrhenius will
delay his Brigham Young throwing debut for 3 years. The
Mountain View UT thrower, whose incredible throw at Arcadia
added 9 feet to the US discus record, will serve on a
Mormon mission in Sweden for 2 years and then will redshirt
for another year, according to his father, Anders Arrhenius,
who is a native of Sweden.
USA juniors beat Great
Britain
Preps play key role - women's 4x100 relay sets stadium
record 45.28 - on to Scotland next - Story
NSSF becomes
a DyeStat Charter Sponsor
BALTIMORE MD 8/17/01 - DyeStat today named
the National Scholastic Sports Foundation (NSSF) a Charter
Sponsor of DyeStat.
NSSF, founded by Mike Byrnes and Jim Spier,
pioneered post-season national meets for high school track
and field athletes. They presently manage the Nike Indoor
Classic at Landover MD and the adidas Outdoor Championships
at Raleigh NC. Features such as relay matchups, jointly staged
USATF Golden Spike competitions, and open entry qualifying
rounds have made NSSF meets the premier promoter of post-season
meets for high school track and field. NSSF also provides
financial support for selected athletes to compete in USATF
Junior Nationals and other major regional and national events.
As part of the agreement, the NSSF web site
will be moving to DyeStat in the near future. It will contain
complete information on NSSF events, as well as other features.
Charter Sponsor status is given to those organizations
that commit significant support to DyeStat in the 2001-2002
school year, a period that is critical for the future of DyeStat
as the premier high school Web site in America. Charter Sponsors
will be recognized in the footer of all DyeStat pages for
5 years.
Two indoor championships
again next year
Behind the scenes efforts to merge the Nike Indoor Classic
and the National Scholastic Indoor Championships have failed.
DyeStat has learned that the New York Armory has signed a
contract with the Metropolitan Athletics Congress for the
NSIC to return to the Armory in 2002, and the National Scholastic
Sports Foundation has agreed to return NIC to the Prince Georges
County Sports complex in Landover MD. Thus, it appears that
the two meets will compete for athletes and national championship
status for the fourth straight year.
Short Takes
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Adam Midles, Capital
Olympia WA jr, throws the hammer 231-2 to set a new junior
class record and claim US#1 for the year in Bob
Gourley's rankings.
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State Street Mile,
Rockford IL 8/11, showed that some
prep athletes are staying in shape this summer. Deerfield
IL senior to be Erika Odlaug, champion of the Golden
West 3200 and the Junior Nationals 3000, won the HS girls
mile in 4:50, followed 6 seconds later by Iowa City West
IA senior to be Jeni Frudden, Drake Relays 3000
meter champion. Patrick Quinn, who will be a senior
at St. Francis Wheaton IL, won the HS boys race in 4:16.70.
A recent grad, Maria Cicero, who will run for Boston
College next year, ran 4:48.1 for 4th in the Elite Women's
race. A sub-4 mile was run in the Elite Men's race by
Julius Mwangi 3:57.9.
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Nazareth Academy PA
is looking for a coach to replace Dean Lent, who is taking
the head coach position at Ursinus College. Interested
parties may contact Lent at 215-356-8767 or 215-508-5588
or email: [email protected]. The Nazareth Academy
Athletic Director can be reached at 215-637-1116.
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Jonathan Wade of
Evangel LA is one of the earliest of the class of 2002
to announce his college choice. It is Tennessee, where
the world class sprinter will play football as well. "I
wanted to go where they were good in both (track and football),"
Wade said. Obviously, they are at Tennessee. I was also
looking for a football coach who would let me run track."
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Yong-Sung Leal
Keith Conning
interviews rising star from Arroyo San Lorenzo CA. Young
runner is Portuguese-Irish-Japanese, and the name means Brave
Castle
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