OR Pre's high school has great new track
Want to drool over a terrific high school facility? Check out Marshfield OR's new track - Marshfield is where Steve Prefontaine ran as a prep.

LA LSU High School Classic
Entries and Heat Sheets for LSU meet , Baton Rouge LA Jan 11-12
Top Southern stars will compete: Janice Davis MS, Marquita Davis TN, Kimberly Adams GA, Brienne Simmons GA, Tara Lenn AL, Jasmine Bynum CO, Andree Bonvillian LA, Jonathan Wade LA, Michael Grant GA, Aaron Collins LA, Ashton Collins LA, Jerald Watson LA, Brendan Christian TX, Tyler Stanfield AL, Scott Fuqua AL, Ryan Deak FL, Michael Brown AL, Jake Raines MS, Dexter Faulk GA.

DyeStat Elite rankings - 618 performances
Fourth list of 2002 indoor season has 618 performances meeting DyeStat Elite cutoffs, as of 1/10 - including Hispanic Games.
How to Get Ranked - Cutoff Standards and Event Statistics

MITC: 27 states now represented
LINCOLN NE 1/09/02 -- With a week still to go before the early entry deadline (January 16), the Midwest Indoor Track Classic has already attracted athletes from 27 states, meet director Chris Lester announced. Big names who have recently committed include Chris Solinsky WI, third in the Foot Locker cross country nationals; sprint stars Janice Davis MS and Sanya Richards FL; and versatile Sheena Gordon PA, nationally ranked in high jump, long jump and hurdles last year. Lester said that early entries would be announced at the end of next week. MITC page

NYC Millrose relay qualifiers
Complete times for NYC Millrose qualifiers are posted at armorytrack.com

WA Stevie Marshalek 12-1 Kentlake WA junior sets new Washington girls indoor pole vault record in meet at Clackamas CC, Portland OR 1/2.

NH Dartmouth Relays 1/12
Entries: Boys - Girls
Mile entries (Millrose Games qualifier) include:
Girls - Meghan Owen CT, Liz Gesel NH, Chelsea Corr NY, Megan Olds NY, Melissa Donais MA, Eryka Perreault NY, Sarah Isbitz MA, Liz Maloy NY.
Boys - Steve Walsh RI, Jon Pierce NY, Brendan Sullivan NY, Owen Washburn MA, Owen McKenna CT, Mike Grant MA, Justin Corelli NY.

MD Montgomery Invitational 1/12
Heats, entries, and order of events for meet at PG Sportsplex 1/12.
Shane Stroup MD and Dan Mazzocco PA entered in mile (a Millrose Games qualifier).

NY Sensational double at Cornell
by Molly Huddle: 10:19.8 and 4:57.0
Elmira NY sr Molly Huddle is reported to be concentrating on basketball instead of track this winter, but she showed up for an all comers meet at Cornell University's Barton Hall Sunday and ran the 11th best indoor 2 mile ever in the US. More.
Life behind or beyond Molly - a 34-year-old runner and writer tells what it was like losing to a girl half his age.

Hispanic Games Ten new US leading marks and four US#2's in huge meet in the New York Armory - 5,300 athletes in one-day meet - Jason Lilly and Shana Cox win Outstanding Runner awards. - Maryland power Eleanor Roosevelt takes home three relay golds in US#1 time - Stacey Ann Livingston doubles in 800 and 4x800 - Complete Results - Hispanic Games home page - Donna on the Side 133 DyeStat Elite performances - best meet of 2002 indoor season to date NEW Pix Pages: MVP Shana Cox's 200 - MVP Jason Lilly's 400 - Natasha Hastings' US#1 400 - Eleanor Roosevelt MD relays - Miles: Dalpiaz and Iatauro - Hakon Devries repeats in 3200 - Liz Maloy breaks 10:00 in 3k - Stacey Ann Livingston's senior romp Eleanor Roosevelt girls 4x200 team (blue/white) completes a relay double for the Greenbelt MD school, posting US leading times in both the 4x400 and 4x200 10 New US leading performances BOYS 400 - Jason Lilly DE 48.47 800 - Trimarcie Ramos CT 1:56.13 3200 - Hakon Devries NY 9:24.30 4x200 - E. Roosevelt MD 1:29.61 GIRLS 200 - Shana Cox NY 23.85 400 - Natasha Hastings NY 55.35 800 - Stacey Livingston NY 2:09.64 3000 - Liz Maloy NY 9:59.84 4x200 - E. Roosevelt MD 1:39.03 4x400 - E. Roosevelt MD 3:45.62

PA Weekend by Don Rich
Steve Meyers 57-2, triples by Danielle Rodgers, Sheena Gordon - Details

NY Colgate Games Week 2
9 DyeStat Elite performances - results

College Choices
College Choices 2002 now 249 names as of 1/5
New signings:
Karen Pulliam MD - William & Mary
Courtney Clark PA - North Carolina A&T
Justin Corelli NY - Princeton
Sheena Dawkins NC - North Carolina State
Megan Olds NY - Dartmouth
Kara Newell FL - Boston U.
Payton Batliner CO - Colorado
Allison Bradshaw CT - Clemson
Owen Washburn MA - Brown
Samantha Shepard MA - Stanford
Molly Lederman MA - Yale
One-week early signing period ended Nov 21, and Ivy League early decisions are also being announced. DyeStat now has 249 choices listed. 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.

major meet pages for 2002
INDOOR: Nike Indoor Classic - Holiday Classic - Brown Inv - Seton Hall Games - Hispanic Games - New Balance Games - MITC - Simplot Games - Millrose Games - Colgate Women's Games - NSIC - Los Angeles Inv - USA Nationals - Montgomery Inv
OUTDOOR: Mobile Meet of Champions - Arcadia Inv - Mt. SAC Relays - Penn Relays - Dayton Roosevelt Memorial - Texas State Meet - Great Southwest Classic - California State Meet - Golden West - adidas Outdoor Championships - US Junior Nationals -

2002 indoor Nike
Athletes of the Week #2
Molly Lederman MA Michael Morrison NJ

DONNA ON THE SIDE
Hundreds of pictures of athletes, coaches, parents, and fans at the big meets.

• SAN FRANCISCO
• HILLIARD OH
• CHARLOTTE
• MANHATTAN
• MT. SAC
• NY FEDERATION
• FOOT LOCKER WEST
• FOOT LOCKER FINALS
• BISHOP LOUGHLIN
• NY HOLIDAY CLASSIC
• BROWN INV
• HISPANIC GAMES

Donna on the side at the New York Armory Holiday Classic, talking to longtime official Lou Vazquez Sr.

LAST WEEK

Brown Invitational

Girls: Nicole Blood wins mile 5:03.25 and anchors Saratoga DMR 12:13.90 and 4x800 9:43.60 - New Rochelle wins 5 events, Paul Robeson 3, A.P. Randolph 2 - Molly Lederman 12-9 US#1
Boys: Midwood wins DMR 10:42.93 and 4x800 8:10.00, Transit Tech takes 4x400 3:25.25 and SMR 3:39.04.
Index & Winner Table - COMPLETE RESULTS: Boys - Girls
DONNA ON THE SIDE - scenes from the sidelines
Best Marks - 52 performances eligible for 2002 indoor DyeStat Elite lists
PIX PAGES:
Boys: Midwood DMR - Alex Bloom's Mile - Kellenberg's 4x200 - Hendricken 1-2 in 3000 - Boys various - Girls: Nicole Blood's mile - Molly Lederman's US#1 vault - Saratoga DMR - New Rochelle wins 5 events - A.P. Randolph doubles - Robeson's 4x200 - Toni-Lynn Salucci's 3000

Holiday Classic - NY Armory
Boys & Girls girls double; Morrison 7 feet again
Complete Results - DONNA ON THE SIDE - 38 best marks -
Pix Pages: Boys & Girls girls DMR - Old Bridge boys DMR - Fordham Prep - Mike Morrison 7-0 -

Pearl River Holiday Classic
Rockland CC -- John Jay's Hakon DeVries 4:29.5 1600m, Ewing 1:32.2 800mr & 3:29.6 1600mr, Arlington's Evan Lasher 52'10 SP, Nyack's Stan Lagrenade 32.7 300y & 1:15.9 600y; JFK-Patterson's Tawana Watkins 55m-55hh double; Clarkstown South's Kate Dobransky 1000y-1600m double.
Results at www.armorytrack.com

NY Colgate Women's Games
Week 1 results

NJ Seton Hall Games
Top performances: Jason Lilly 22.36 and 49.32. Shane Stroup 4:18.38 mile. Karina Francis 7.05 55D. Juanita Broaddus 24.99. Meisue Francis 56.56. Stacey Ann Livingston 2:14.52. Largo MD girls 1:42.83. Results and 53 DyeStat Elite performances listed

PA Year End Special
Several meet records were set at Lehigh, including Lester Caesar 49.32, Danielle Rodgers 56.90, and Juanita Broadus 25.05. Also 23 DyeStat Elite performances overall. Story

Great Mile at Reggie Lewis Center
A dual meet between Brockton MA and St. John's Danvers MA produced a spine tingling mile between Brockton sr Abdulgani Abdi and St. John's soph Mike Grant, with the two runners circling the oval 8 times stride for stride before Abdi won by 0.2 in 4:23.9h. (from Giles Norton, who says FinishLynx would have shown a closer finish than that).

Hawaii Connection

Amber Trotter's victory in the Foot Locker cross country national finals at Disney World December 8 continues an interesting string: she is the third straight Foot Locker girls champion to have won the 3-year-old Iolani Invitational in Hawaii during the season.

In 1999, Hawaii native Victoria Chang won the inaugural Iolani meet and then came to the mainland to win the Foot Locker national finals. Last year, Sara Bei of California took the trip to Hawaii, won the Iolani Inv and went on to an "upset" victory in Orlando. This year, Trotter ventured to the Iolani meet September 22 at Kualoa Ranch (site of filming of Jurassic Park) and signalled she was ready for Foot Locker glory by beating Bei's 2000 time by 22 seconds. The Aloha charm worked again.

Is anyone thinking Hawaii for next September?

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