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2005 USATF National JO - another gathering for the ages!!!
ALL RESULTS ONE - FILE
Thanks Don Chadez - Flash Results West
California Athlete Albums (posted in August 2005)
Day 4 - 7/29 - Friday

Day 3 - 7/28 - Thursday

Day 6 (Sunday,
July 31)
53.93 for an 8th
grader!!!
Mike Kennedy Day 6 Summaries!!

Photo by Doug Speck
Turquoise Thompson, who will attend
Long Beach Poly next season,
gave Golden State track and field fans an idea of what's to come after
running a sensational 53.93 to win the Youth Girls Division
400-meter dash final at the Junior Olympics on Sunday morning in Indianapolis!
Turqoise raced 53.55 to win the USATF Association Meet June 12th at Carson
for her personal best
Turqoise also has the "sock" thing kind of going!!
SUNDAY HEADLINERS
Turquoise Thompson, 53.93 to win Youth Girls 400
Thandi Stewart, 55.15 for 2nd in Youth Girls 400
Sa'de Williams, 53.48 to win Intermediate Girls 400
Myra Hasson, 54.24 to take third in Young Women 400
Jordan Hasay, 4:31.24 to win Youth Girls 1500
Ebony Collins, 58.26 to win Intermediate Girls 400mH
Randall Carroll, 11.02 to win Youth Boys 100 into wind
Jahvid Best, 10.67 to take third in Intermediate Boys 100
Bryshon Nellum, 47.16 to win Intermediate Boys 400
David Klech, 51.30 to take second in Young Men 400mH
Carlyle Fletcher, 6-08.75 to take second in Young Men HJ
Sunday's HUGE Video
Library!
(Broadband
connection recommended for best viewing!)
Bantam/Midget
100s Youth/Interm
100s Young
Women/Men 100s
Bantam
Girls 400 Midget
Girls 400 Youth
Girls 400 (Turquoise's 53.93!)
Intermed.
Girls 400 Young
Women 400 Bantam
Boys 400
Midget
Boys 400 Youth
Boys 400 Intermed.
Boys 400
Young
Men 400 Youth
Girls 1500 (Hasay completes double!)
Midget
Girls/Boys Short Hurdles Youth
Boys/Girls Short Hurdles
Interm.
Girls/Young Women Short Hurdles Interm/Boys/Young
Men Short Hurdles
Interm.
Boys 400mH & Interm.
Boys 400mH Re-Run! Youth
Boys/Girls 200mH
Interm.
Girls 400mH Young
Women 400mH Young
Men 400mH
Video Added Monday 8/1
Youth Boys 1500m - Int Girls 1500 - Int Boys 1500
Yng Wom 1500 - Yng Men 1500
In the Young Men's 1500 check closely for Travis Prejean (Chautqua Striders/
Jamestown, NY) who lost a shoe and finished third, racing over the last couple of laps
barefooted! (ouch!)
Sunday's
Results from all 71 events! Weeklong
Coverage Index!
Day 5 (Saturday,
July 30)
Day 5
(Sat.) All of Saturday's 59 event results now posted!
Mike Kennedy's
Day 5 Summary

Jordan Hasay scorches 9:35.12
for 3k win!
That's equivalent to about 10:17.5 for 3200!
Both marks would lead the state HS scene!
Video
Coverage of the 9:35.12 - Broadband needed! -
Jordan talks to the press - interview
Video - Broadband
Needed
Bant/Midg
200's - Youth/Interm
200's - Yng
M/W 200's
Bant
G 800 - Bant
B 800 - Midget
G 800 - Midget
B 800
Youth
G 800 - Youth
B 800 - Interm
G 800 - Interm
B 800
Yng
Wom 800 - Yng
Men 800 - Interm
G 3k (Lane's 9:37.03 M Rec)
Interm
B 3K (4:16 Wisc HS frosh miler Perkins closes with 57 lap!)

Danny Mercado (left) took the Young Men's
5k - (L-R) Johnny Dutch IntB110mHH
(14.09) - Tavaris Washington YngM110mHH (13.91) - Alexis Rogers YngW100mH
(13.88)
led barrier qualifying in their divison Saturday!!
SATURDAY
ALBUM OF ACTION!!
Day 4 (Friday, July 29)
Day
4 COMBINED results - Mike
Kennedy Summary of Day!
All of Friday's 53 events now linked
above.
Day 4 Video - Need Broadband
Nkosinza
Balumbu Interview - Huge TJ Win!
Karynn
Dunn Interview - Youth LJ Record (19-02!)
Young
Men's TJ competition Jumps!
First Family of Sprinting +
Another Hasay record!

Photo by Doug Speck
Sisters Sa'de (left) and Brittneeh
Williams were "quarterhorses"
(as in metric quarter milers) in hot action in Indianapolis on Friday!
At right, amazing junior high school talent Jordan Hasay notched yet
another
age-group record at 1500 meterss. She'll attend Mission Prep in the
Fall!
David
Klech (California HS, San Ramon) blazes 51.93 in Young Men 400IH qualifying!
Jordan Hasay races to eye-popping 4:28.61 age-group record in Youth
Girls 1500m qualifying!
8th grade phenom Turquoise Thompson scorches 54.22 in Young Girls 400m
qualifying!
Sa'de Williams of Rancho Cucamonga HS nails a 54.26 in Intermediate
Girls 400 qualifying!
Myra Hasson (Gardena HS) rips a 54.78 in Young Women's 400m qualifying!
Thandi Stewart (to Logan HS?) a dallzing 55.88 in Youth Girls 400m qualifying!
   
Thumbnail-sized images by Doug Speck. Full-sizes versions
in link below!
David Klech - Jordan Hasay - Sa'de Williams - Thandi
Stewart - Turquoise Thompson
Doug
Speck's photo album of Day 4 headliners!
Other Albums - Long
Hurdle Heats - Young
Men's Triple Jump -
1500
Meter Heats - 400
Meter Heats (more coming)
Day 3
(Thursday, July 28)
***Day
3 COMBINED results***
All 52 of Thursday's
events now linked above.
Mike Kennedy's Daily
Summary of the Action!!

Jordan
Scott (left in left photo) of Georgia and California state champion
Scott Roth of Granite Bay HS each broke the JO's Boys Intermediate Division
Pole Vault record with clearances at 17-1.50. Jordan cleared on 1st
try to win!
At right, Salesian HS of Richmond (Sac Joaquin Section) speedburner
Jahvid Best found a new gear and blazed to a meet-leading 21.41 during
opening-round action of the Intermediate Boys 200m Dash. Jahvid's previous
lifetime bests were 22.17 legal and 21.90 windy. Nice improvement!
California has 12 HS athletes ranked among the top 45 in the nation
in the 200m
this year, easily the most of any state and almost twice as many as
Texas!
Video footages:
Big
jumps from Jordan Scott & Scott Roth!
Interview
with CA State Champ Scott Roth & Jordan Scott!
Interview
with Mississippi sprinter Bianca Knight!
Young
Women's LJ Finalist Video
Young
Men's LJ Finalist Video
Note: Broadband connection
recommended for above videos!
Photo Albums: 800m
- 200m
- YMLJ
- IGTJ/YWLJ
Scheduled:
Selected age-group Finals for LJ, TJ, HJ, PV, DT & JT
Qualifying in the 200m, 800m, 4x400.
Super Young Men's PV field
- Scott Roth 17-02.75 faces Georgia's
Jordan Scott 17-00- Illinois star Phil Hanson 16-06 - Seager Wilson
Indiana 16-03
and 16-footer Jonathan Hall from Indiana!
Young Women's Long Jump
- Shana Woods 20-10i faces Rachel Lewis Virginia 19-09
Claremont's Ashika Charan (19-08.5w) & Kristin Holmes 19-07.5
and Angela Jenkins of Virginia 19-04.75!
Day 2 (Wednesday, July
27)

File photo by Doug
Speck
Diamond Ranch HS and SoCal
Cheetahs club star Terry Prentice rode a fine 23-00.50
effort to gain 818 big points in the long jump on Day 1, then scored
big in the high hurdles
(14.83 for 870 more points) to start Day 2. Terry scored a lifetime-best
6303 points to place
second to Tennessee frosh phenom Benjamin Davies, whose 6645 ranks
#3 in U.S. in 2005!

Photo by Kirby Lee
Muir High and Pasadena Running Roses standout Kiani Profit enjoyed
two big
scoring bursts in Day 1 of the Intermediate Girls Heptathlon, netting
822 points
from a 15.15 clocking in the 100-meter high hurdles and an additional
836 points
from her 25.56 effort in the 200-meter dash. Kiani ended up placing
fourth in
the two-day competition with 4245 points, with Gabrielle Gioia winning
with 4483.
Sarah Brown of Tri-City Christian HS in the San Diego area, was second
with 4424!
Roll Call of Day 2 Junior
Olympic Champions
Intermediate Girls 5k Racewalk:
Susan Muraida 10-Albuquerque TC 27:40.12
Young Women 5k Racewalk: Christina Peters 05-Miami
Valley TC 26:21.87
Bantam Girls Triathlon: Ashlee Moore 10-Arizona Flames
1157 points
Midget Girls Pentathlon: Lashea Shaw 06-Memphis Hurdlers
TC 2954 points
Intermediate Girls Heptathlon: Gabrielle Gioia
06-Personal Best 4483 points
Young Women's Heptathlon: Brittani Williams 12-Wings
4815 points
Midget Girls 4x800: 02-United Stars TC 'A' 9:51.38
Youth Girls 4x800: 03-DC Redwings 'A' 9:30.24
Intermediate Girls 4x800: 02-United Stars TC 'A' 8:54.95
Young Women 4x800: 06-Music City TC 'A' 9:03.60
Intermediate Boys 5k Racewalk: Ricardo Vergara SoTX
Walk Club 25:16.54
Young Men 5k Racewalk: Jared Swehosky unattached-13
21:53.80
Bantam Boys Triathlon: Dustin James II 15-Long Beach
Sprinters 962 points
Midget Boys Pentathlon: James Douglas 15-California
Rising Star 2730 points
Intermediate Boys Decathlon: Benjamin Davies 06-Personal
Best 6645 points
Young Men's Decathlon: Tim Wunderlich unattached-Region
3 6806 points
Midget Boys 4x800: 03-Glenarden TC 'A' 9:41.62
Youth Boys 4x800: 12-Wildcat Youth Sports 'A' 8:24.03
Intermediate Boys 4x800: 05-Ohio Flyers TC 'A' 7:54.10
Young Men 4x800: 12-After Burner TC 'A' 7:49.82
Day
2 results! Day 2 results! Day 2 results!
Scheduled:
Multi-Events/RaceWalks/4x800m
Relays
Day
1 (Tuesday, July 26)
File
photo by Doug Speck
Terry
Prentice is halfway home! Can he hold on??
Terry's
Day 1 marks: 11.27/100m; 23-00.50/LJ; 34-05.75/SP;
6-02.75/HJ; 53.47/400m
California was well represented
in the multi-events on Day One, with Diamond Ranch HS/
SoCal Cheetahs standout Terry Prentice scoring 3511 points through five
events of the
Intermediate Boys (age 15-16) Decathlon. He leads by 68 points with
five events to go!
Ryan Holmes (Loyola HS/Pasadena Running Roses TC) is third. In the Intermediate
Girls
Heptathlon, Sarah Brown (Tri-City Christian HS) and Kiani Profit (Muir
HS/Pasadena
Running Roses) are both in the top four after the four first-day events!
Day
One Results! Day One Results! Day One Results!
Scheduled: Multi-Events/Steeplechase/RaceWalks
2005
Meet Information Regional
Championship 2005 Results Meet
Schedule
The
39th USATF National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships will
be conducted at the Michael A. Carroll Track & Soccer Stadium, located
on the IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) campus
in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. Over 6,000 athletes are expected.
Entry is based on athlete performances at preliminary, Association, and
Regional levels of the 2005 USATF Junior Olympic program. Competition
age divisions are as follows: Bantam (10 yrs and under), Midget (11-12
yrs), Youth (13-14 yrs), Intermediate (15-16 yrs) and Young Men/Women
(17-18 yrs).
**USATF Junior
Olympics**
(Previous years on DyeStatCal)
In 2004
at Hayward Field, Louisiana's Kenny Hall (56-02.5w Young Men's Triple
Jump and national record 54-10.25 legal), California 7th-grader distance
ace Jordan Hasay (California 7th grader), Illinois star Alexandria Anderson
and Mississippi flash Bianca Knight topped the girls sprint. For the boys,
California sprinter Bryshon Nellum headlined the action in "Track
City".
2004
Coverage - Eugene, Oregon - Hayward Field
2003
Coverage - Miami, Florida
2002
Coverage - Omaha, Nebraska
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