Alexis Joyce breaks 50 yard mark for juniors

by Doug Speck

Angela Williams (NCAA Champ USC on left) and Alexis Joyce on
right at US Junior Meet last June in Denton, Texas

Saturday 1/8/2000
Alexis Joyce (Colorado Flyers/Washington HS, Denver, Co), last year's runner-up in the Junior Nationals over 100 meters as a High School sophomore, and a member of the U.S. Junior record-setting 4x100 meter relay team in the Pan American Junior Championships in Florida
last summer, started off her eleventh grade indoor season in fine style this weekend at Colorado State University. 

Running in a meet that included University age-athletes, the latest of Coach Tony Wells' flyers blasted a 5.89 50 yard dash, a mark that blasted the old eleventh grade class record of 6.12 by Jackie Smith (Randolph, Mass 1986) and Tricia Alfred (Lexington, Mass 1988), and adjusts to faster than the hand-timed best of 5.7 by current UCLA mentor, Jeanette Bolden back when she was a prep at Centennial HS in Compton, California. 

Coach Wells was excited about his charge's race, stating that, "She twinged slightly in a meet last week, so we backed off a bit this week, but Alexis looked super this weekend!" The National prep best of 5.86 by Deandra Carney (Arlington, Indianapolis, In) from 1978, with Aspen Burkett, another of Wells' Colorado Flyers group and a student at East HS in Denver, back in 1994 racing 5.6 hand-timed.