College
Choices 2002
Thanksgiving
comes early for Colorado (Erika Odlaug) and Texas (Joe Thorne).
Texas haul also includes Sanya Richards, Brendan Christian,
Aaron and Ashton Collins, Nicholas Johnson, transfer Jason
Ward, Sheretta Jones, Ychlindria Spears, and Ashlee Williams.
Left, Odlaug inks letter of intent.
Notre
Dame announces that Michigan's Tim Moore has signed for
the Irish. We now have 101
choices as of early Wednesday morning. One-week early
signing period ends today (Nov 21). Send information on college
choices to John Dye at
[email protected] with
your name, your relationship to the information, and a way
to verify the information.
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THIS
WEEK on DyeStat
- Nov 17
results,
photos, highlights from around the country.
LAST WEEK
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NY:
Saratoga, Brian Dalpiaz, Molly Huddle
(photos of top 48 NY Federation
finishers now uploaded)
CA: Canyon,
Luke Llamas, Dana Hills, Emily Vince, Yong-sung Leal,
Amber Trotter
MA: Natasha
Roetter, Andy Pitts, Amherst
NJ: Haddonfield
boys, Marc Pelerin, L Van Alstine
Mid East:
Jessica Gall, Tim Ross
FL: Kara
Scanlin, Steve Hassan, Rolf Steier |
Massachusetts
MIAA State Meet
Natasha Roetter smashes
state record
17:31.5 is 32 seconds faster than her 2000 mark.
Div 2 Andy Pitts 15:27.7 and Div 1 Owen Washburn
15:40.3 both break Neal Graves' Tufts course record.
Washburn leads US#14 Amherst to 44 point score.
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New
Jersey Meet of Champions
Top runners and teams from the group
championships last week return to challenging Holmdel
Park.
From a DyeStat correspondent: Haddonfield NJ
certainly deserving of their Number 4 US ranking.
Dominated the NJ Meet of Champs - 3 Guys under 16
minutes at Holmdel Park - done by only 27 prior runners
in the 22 years of that course! One of the Greatest
1-3 Trios in US History!!
Platt/Stiles/Bonnette
Marc Pelerin, Cherokee, wins in 15:44, Number 7 AllTime.
Platt second 15:48. Pelerin is also for real and a
serious contender out of the NE Foot Locker this year.
Lindsey Van Alstine 18:43 wins girls race (Jesse Mizzone
18:53)
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15th
Mid East Championship
Top 10 seniors from six states -- Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and West Virginia
-- compete in 5 score, 5 displace format. Girls 11 am,
boys 11:30 am at Indian Riffle Park, Kettering OH
Jessica Gall IN 18:00.32
Tim Ross MI 15:09.44 (Allen Bader OH 15:19.69)
Michigan boys 40, Indiana girls 25, Indiana combined
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California Sections
Southern
Section finals -- US#2 Canyon boys
(in gold below) win Division 1 at Mt. SAC with
72 points, led by 1-3-5 finish by Luke Llamas 14:51
(fastest of day), Jameson Mora 15:04, and Ryan
Morgan 15:08. Dana Hills 111 wins Div 1
girls, with Peninsula sr Emily Vince 17:06
fastest girl of the day.
Complete
Southern Section results and photos
North Coast Section finals
-- Amber Trotter 16:15, smiling and waving
to crowd, 2 minutes before next finisher, first mile
in 5:10. Yong-sung Leal 14:38 (30 seconds ahead
of flu-ridden Carl Dambkowski). Jenny Aldridge
17:48. Clara Horowitz 17:45. West #9 Montgomery
girls 51 over US#18 Maria Carrillo 55.
Last step before the state meet
at Woodward Park, Fresno, next Saturday, November
24.
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Florida
State Meet
Several top Foot Locker favorites duke
it out in Tampa.
Kara Scanlin, Episcopal, sets a state meet record
17:20 in 1A. Rolf Steier edges Ryan Deak by
0.5 second in 1A in tactical 15:35.19. Steve Hassan
wins 3A in 15:12.31, fastest time of the day. Steier
is only the second runner in Florida to ever win three
state titles.
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California
All-State Rankings - Billy Nelson,
Amber Trotter still #1. Boys list expanded to 20 because of
quality.
Great American 'weather forecast' improves
After the third Great American Cross Country
Festival in Charlotte in September, we wrote a
story painting a cloudy picture for the future of the
popular and innovative meet. Meet founder Rick Hill said continuation
of the meet hinged on development of enhanced sponsor revenues
and an improved administrative structure. We asked Hill this
week if the situation had changed, and he replied, "The
forecast for Great American is less cloudy and with a prediction
of sunny skies within a few weeks." We say hurrah for
that. [John Dye]
Penny Sparks, mother and coach,
reflects on the Nevada State Meet results
when her daughter does less than expected
"Getting to the top is fun, exciting
and challenging. Staying at the top is stressful, challenging,
and not always a whole lot of fun. . . . Everyone
feels bad for the hard working, less gifted athlete who gets
no recognition, but we forget about the pressure the successful
young elite runner has to deal with.
"Entering into womanhood is a wonderful
thing unless you are an endurance runner."
The eating disorder trap for young girls, and how they can
get around it.
Penny Sparks'
story
Border
Clash III
Washington sweeps Oregon 2nd straight year;
Chris Lukezic, Jessie McLaughlin lead the way
Results: Boys
- Girls - Pix
Pages: Boys
- Girls -
Erik Palmer photos: Boys
- Girls
Donna on the Side: eve
of the meet - BorderClash
day
2,300
times in XC Leader List!
State meet action pumped in 1,000 more performances,
making 2,300 times listed now from 490 meets
in the DyeStat XC
Leader List as of November 9.
Includes 3 mile times better than 15:35/18:35 and 5k better
than 16:05/19:05.
XC Leader List
explained - Nov
9 Leader List - How
to get listed
HARRIER
RANKINGS
10/29
Kingwood TX boys,
Saratoga Springs NY girls still #1.
Canyon CA boys, Esperanza CA girls, Haddonfield
NJ boys make biggest moves. DyeStat scores rankings by region
and finds West and Midwest are strongest.
Harrier Magazine Rankings
10/29 - Next rankings: November 19.
Checking
in with the Distance Gods - DyeStat's
most prolific TrackTalker steveu finds them
at NCAA Pre-Nationals - Dathan Ritzenhein,
Eric Logsdon, Sara Bei, Alicia Craig, Anita Siraki, Shalane
Flanagan, Erin Donohue, Ale Barrientos, Matt Tegenkamp - read
how former HS stars are adjusting to college life.
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Foot
Locker Forum
Vote for
the runners most likely to succeed in the regionals.
100,000 messages are
now on TrackTalk
Leading
Vote Getters
BOYS
MW: Tim Moore MI,
Chris Solinsky WI , Tim Ross MI
NE: Peter Meindl
NY, Marc Pelerin NJ, Brian Dalpiaz NY
SO: Bobby Lockhart
VA, Bobby Curtis KY, Joe Thorne GA
WE: Yong-sung Leal
CA, Billy Nelson CA, Chris Lukezic WA
GIRLS
MW: Erika Odlaug
IL, Nikki Bohnsack MI, Megan Kaltenbach CO
NE: Natasha Roetter
MA, Jesse Mizzone NJ, Molly Huddle NY
SO: Laura Stanley
NC, Mindy Sullivan TX, Kiera Carlstrom VA
WE: Amber Trotter
CA, Laura Zeigle UT, Zoe Nelson MT
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DONNA ON THE SIDE
Hundreds of pictures of athletes,
coaches, parents, and fans at the big meets.
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DyeStat Legends in Chicago at
Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park.
DOOFUS crowd (we will let them explain the initials) wore DyeStat
singlets in the Chicago Marathon.
photo from KCtrack
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DyeStat
Featured Meets
Meets that will be covered in depth,
mostly on-site, by DyeStat in 2001-2002
- Great
American - Nike's Great Races of America
- 9/15
Meet of Champions, Hilliard OH
- 9/22 Bull
Run Invitational - Hereford HS, Parkton MD
- 9/28-29 flrunners.com
Invitational, Winter Haven FL
- 10/6 Portage
Invitational - Portage MI
- 10/13 Manhattan
Invitational, Van Cortlandt Park, New York NY
- 10/20 Mt.
SAC Invitational, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut
CA
- 11/10 Oregon-Washington
Border Clash, Nike World HQ, Beaverton OR
- 11/17 New York Federation championships,
Wappinger Falls NY
- 11/24 Foot Locker Cross Country regionals
- Northeast,
Midwest, South
- 12/1 Foot Locker Cross Country West
regional - Mt. SAC, Walnut CA
- 12/8 Foot
Locker Cross Country National finals - Disney World,
Orlando FL
- 12/15 Bishop Loughlin Games, New York
Armory
- 1/5 Hispanic Games, New York Armory
- 1/19 New Balance Games, New York Armory
- 2/9 adidas
Midwest Indoor Classic, Lincoln NE
- 2/14-16 Simplot Games, Pocatello ID
- 3/1-2 USA Nationals, New York Armory
- 3/9-10 Nike
Indoor Classic, Landover MD
- 3/8-10 National Scholastic Indoor Championships,
New York Armory
- 4/6 Mobile Meet of Champions, Mobile
AL
- 4/13 Arcadia Invitational, Arcadia
CA
- 4/20 Mt. SAC Invitational, Walnut CA
- 4/25-27 Penn Relays, Philadelphia PA
- 5/3-4 Roosevelt Memorial Inv, Dayton
OH
- 5/10-11 Texas State Meet, Austin TX
- 5/25 Great Southwest Classic, Albuquerque
NM
- 6/1 California State Meet, Cerritos
CA
- 6/8 Golden West Invitational, Sacramento
CA
- 6/14-15 adidas Outdoor Championships,
Raleigh NC
- USATF Junior Nationals, date and site
to be announced
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