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MEXICO CITY 5/3/03 -- Los Angeles Baptist high school senior Allyson
Felix won the 200m in 22.11 at the Banamex Grand Prix meet, beating
world class runners into a 0.5 meters per second headwind. This
was a new world junior record (under 20) for the 17-year-old California
star, breaking the record of 22.19 set by Russia's Natalya Bochina
in 1980. Felix also lowered her own US high school record of 22.51
set just 2 weeks ago at the Mt. SAC Relays, and she now ranks #1
in the world this year in the 200. The Banamex GP, billed as the
biggest track meet in Mexico City since the 1968 Olympics, attracted
a crowd of 50,000.
Banamex GP 200:
1, A Felix (US) 22.11 (World jun record)
2, L Jenkins (US) 22.31
3, K White (US) 22.33
4, D Washington (US) 22.89
5, M Nku (Nig) 23.42
6, E Ojokolo (Nig) 23.79
The meet ended badly for two US men sprinters. World
record holder Tim Montgomery was beaten by Canadian Nicholas Macrozonaris,
who got a PR of 10.19. World Indoor 60m champion Justin Gatlin was
carried off the track after pulling up injured as he entered the
straight in the 200.
"Scuba
Steve" Magness
takes different route to success
Whether he’s rapping
with the wired world – or “wrapping” a new victim’s
yard with his FMR crazies – “Scuba Steve” Magness
of Klein Oak HS (Texas) is a kinda crazy, but perfectly accessible
regular guy. He plays hard … and runs harder.
Is he the next 4-minute
miler?
Stephen "SteveU"
Underwood profiles Texas runner who is startling the country
in his senior season.
major meets around the
country and highlights from the states
alphabetical by state
Alabama
Alabama
State Meet May 2-3 at U. of
Alabama (6A-5A-4A), Troy State U. (3A, 2A, 1A)
Arthur
Davis triple in 5A, Edra Finley quad in 4A.
Opelika boys, Central
Tuscaloosa girls win big school 6A Scottsboro,
UMS Wright, and Hazelwood sweep
Class 5A, 4A, and 1A.
Unusual weekend
double for Chris Patrick - Smiths Station junior
wins 800m in Class 6A state meet in 1:53.86 on Saturday and then
wins 800m in 1:51.57 at Auburn U. Invitational on Sunday. He also
won the 1600m in the state meet in 4:19.44.
Other State Meet highlights:
6A: Jeremy Gray 23-8.25 LJ.
Central Tuscaloosa girls double in 47.95 4x100 and 3:56.81
4x400. Rachel Shanks 5-7.5 HJ. Rhiannon
Jaet 11-7 PV. Whitney Marsh 19-4.5 LJ.
Amelia Anderson 39-3 TJ. Dominique Robinson
42-5 SP.
5A: Williamson sr Arthur Davis 11.02 100m
(10.82 pre), 21.41 200m, and 46.60 400m. A sub-46 split in the 4x400
rallied Williamson to 2nd.
4A: Edra Finley triples 14.77 100H, 44.74
300H, 19-5.75 LJ, and 38-6 TJ.
Arizona
Tempe
City Meet - Koehneman and Morgan
Corona del Sol jr Katie Morgan raised
the state pole vault record to 12-10. Corona del Sol sr Steven
Koehnemann had a great sprint double: 10.43 +0.8 and 21.27
+0.2.
Arkansas
Eastern
Conference Katya Kostetskaya leads
Jonesboro girls to victory with 50 of their 165
points. Cabot wins boys title with 130.25 points.
Colorado
Liberty
Bell Invitational - Apr 26 at Littleton CO
(boys only)
Air Academy sr Ian Burrell 4:15.04 1600m beat Smoky
Hill sr Brent Vaughn 4:15.06 on a lean at the finish.
Splits were 64, 66, 62, and 61. Smoky Hill's Josh Oberleas
vaulted 15-7.
Florida
Florida
Week ending May 3
Ricky Quintana's notes - Nicole Shappert and Paul
Cross have busy meets. Steve Hassen is hurting. Late blooming Ross
McMillan pops a 1:54.15 800m.
Georgia
Marietta
Invitational
Reggie Witherspoon and his
Wheeler GA teammates had a fine day: 21.11 200m,
46.25 400m, 41.14 4x200, and 3:14.14 4x400.
Georgia
Brittnay
Hall - Norcross GA 8th grader runs 55.94 400m
and 2:11.42 800m, finishing 5th and 2nd against college runners
in the University of Georgia Invitational at Spec Towns complex.
Georgia
Andrew
Hudson's GA Honor Roll
May 7 lists.
Idaho
State
Rankings
Eagle sr Donovan Kilmartin leads six events.
Idaho
Outback
Invitational - Donovan
Kilmartin 7+17=24
Eagle ID sr just missed his gold medal formula in this meet with
7-0 HJ, 17-1 PV and 23-9 LJ, along with a 110H win in 14.32. Skyview
Nampa sr Julene Bailey vaulted 12-0, well below
her season best of 13-1. Idaho continues to have unfriendly weather
for track meets as this one was conducted in all the elements --
wind, rain, snow, and occasional sun.
Illinois
Stephen
Pifer 4:05.25, Jeremy Kruidenier 1:50.9
Edwardsville's Pifer, signed by the University
of Colorado, wins 1600m easily May 6 at Cahokia IL. Central Champaign's
Kruidenier, signed by the University of Illinois, runs 1:50.9 800m
at Gene Ward Inv May 3, beating Pifer 1:53.7.
Indiana
Christian
Wagner scored one of the best distance doubles
in Indiana history at the Conference Indiana championship. The Columbus
North junior ran 4:15.06 1600m and 9:01.91 3200m.
Iowa
Jaron
Van Maanen 7-2 US#3 - the junior from Lynville-Sully
IA high school became the fifth in Iowa to top 7 feet when he made
his big jump at the BGM Invitational.
Kansas
KS
week by Anthony Bozarth May
3
Seaman Relays: Kyle Irvin of
Seaman Topeka ran 47.9h 400m. Laci Heller 42-3
SP. Sasha Spann and Stephanie Miller both
broke Miller's meet record in triple jump, with Spann winning 39-8.75
to 38-8.5.
Kentucky
Andy
Fryman - Nike Indoor Championship shot put
winner, a senior at Mason County KY, won the shot at the Donnie
Carnes Inv at 64-4.
Maryland
Gator
Invitational at Reservoir HS
Frederick Douglass PG girls, Oxon Hill
boys win team titles. Starema Flood doubles
58.22 400m and 45.1 300H. Aajah Showell doubles
14.5 100H and 16-9.75 LJ. Lindsay Grigoriev doubles
41-9 and 126-2 SP/DT. Dean Lee doubles 22.57 200m
and 49.58 400m. Tim Minor doubles 15.2 and 40.1
110/300H. Oxon Hill boys win three relays.
Maryland
Montgomery
County championships May 7
Nina Warren, Toni
Aluko, Edwin Campbell, Eric Pauley, Jared Wasser
Gaithersburg jr Nina Warren doubles 11.9h and 25.1h
100/200. Paint Branch jr Toni Aluko triples 5-9,
18-5 and 37-10.5 HJ/LJ/TJ. Gaithersburg sr Brian Porter
10.6h 100m. Paint Branch sr Edwin Campbell doubles
21.6h and 48.4h 200/400. Gaithersburg sr Eric Pauley doubles
4:22.0 and 9:34.0 in 1600/3200. Northwest's Dewayne Whitaker
14.30h 110H (Adam Durham, Paint Branch 14.30). Gaithersburg
boys 41.8 4x100. Wootton sr Jared Wasser doubles
52-6.5 and 128-10 SP/DT.
Maryland
PG
County championships May 8 and 10 at C.H.
Flowers HS
One of the toughest county championships anywhere will be the Prince
George's County championships as sprint powers collide: Eleanor
Roosevelt, Oxon Hill, Suitland, C.H. Flowers, Largo, Douglass, High
Point, Bowie, and Northwestern.
Thursday - Eleanor
Roosevelt sr Tiandra Ponteen leads qualifiers
in 100, 200, and 400. Suitland sr Elizabeth Jackson 39-4.5
TJ. Suitland sr Deyon Williams 23-05.50 LJ.
Finals are on Saturday.
Missouri
Sebben
Relays Apr 30 at Southwest Missouri State
U.
Doubles by Josh Harper (1:54.42 and 4:22.22 800/1600m),
Becky Flippen, Jennifer Harper,
Sarah Bowling, and Tyler Daily.
Missouri
Grandview
KC sprinters placed 2-3-4 in the 200m at
the UMKC college invitational -- Eliott Morant 21.24,
Damond Berry 21.54 and Alex Ingram 21.64.
Mississippi
South
State Championships - Janice Davis, Kedrick Gibbons
Big quad for Natchez sr Janice
Davis: 11.4h 100m, 24.1h 200m, 55.8h 400m
and 4x200 anchor. Natchez jr Kedrick Gibbons
13.6h 110H. East Ranking Academy sr Stephen
Boozer 184-3 DT.
Nebraska
Nebraska
week ending May 3
2nd fastest
NE times ever by Colby Wissel and Elizabeth Lange
Kearney jr Colby Wissel 4:12.77,
Nebraska's 2nd fastest 1600m ever (4:10.8 Brian Turner in 2000).
Pius X Lincoln jr Elizabeth Lange 2:09.40,
Nebraska's 2nd fastest 800m ever (2:08.84 by current North Carolina
star Alice Schmidt in 1999). West Holt sr Cassidy Kramer
got a throws double with 60-11 and 174-0 (Trevor
Votruba 173-7). Kearney sr Chase Beideck 60-5
SP.
Pawnee City sr Bobby Musil 197-4 DT in
the Pioneer Conference, #5 all time in Nebraska.
Nebraska
Metro
Conference May 6-7 at Omaha
Millard West freshman Meredith Snow gets
double meet record 5:02.79 and 10:47.95, with the 3200 coming in
a driving rain. Bellevue West boys and Omaha
Central girls win team titles.
Nevada
Ron
Resler Invitational
Green Valley NV boys, Wilson Long
Beach CA girls win team titles.
White Pine Ely NV jr Zach Lloyd
doubles 64-2.25 and 190-0 in SP/DT. Ashley Freeman
55.5h 400m. Mackenzie Hill doubles in
14.2h 100H and 44.3h 300H. Foothill NV jr Cassandra Strickland
39-4 TJ. Wilson Long Beach girls sweep
all four relays:
New Jersey
Jesse
Mizzone 10:44.8
wins 3200 at County Seat Meet in Wayne NJ.
She also doubled in the 1600 in 5:15.5.
New Jersey
Debra
Vento 5-10 HJ
- Freehold
NJ senior celebrated her scholarship signing with Duke University
by matching her season best mark at the Long Branch Relays.
New Jersey
Eastern
Regional Relay Classic Teams from MA, PA,
NY, and VA. Entry deadline is May 12. Contact Gerald
Richardson 856-222-1785.
New York
20th
Crusader Relays at Monroe Woodbury HS.
Stephen Furst 1 55.8 outkicks Ken Sinkovitz
1:56.9 down the home stretch of the 800m.
North Carolina
Mackenzie Pierce 2:06.66!
super soph matchup looms at Raleigh
Forsyth Country Day NC soph Mackenzie
Pierce won the 800 at a triangular meet at Lewisville
NC May 1 in 2:06.66 FAT. Pierce doubled at the Taco Bell last month
in 2:13.70 800m and 4:59.01 mile. Pierce is expected to run at the
adidas Outdoor Championships in Raleigh June 13-14, setting up a
super soph matchup with Katya Kostetskaya of Arkansas, who has run
2:07.23 this year. Pierce, who is coached by former Wake Forest
U coach Noel Reubel, was 7th at Raleigh last year in 2:12.24.
North
Carolina
Gene
Cherry's NC Honor Roll
List #10 - May 7
Ohio
Roosevelt
Memorial Invitational May 2-3 at Welcome
Stadium, Dayton OH
Michigan sweeps
team titles with Rockford girls, Mumford boys -
doubles by Illinois soph Alexandria Anderson, Ohio jr Ted Ginn,
Glenville OH boys and Turpin Cincinnati OH girls
Top teams from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois come to Dayton
for 29th running of this meet.
Saturday: Morgan Park IL soph Alexandria
Anderson doubles 11.75 and 24.35. Rockford MI jr Nikki
Bohnsack 4:56.64 1600m edged Beaumont Cleveland Heights
OH jr Maggie Infeld 4:56.80 in the last 40 meters.
Glenville Cleveland boys 1:26.28 4x200 and 3:18.92 4x400.
Glenville jr Ted Ginn doubles 13.84 110H
and 37.82 300H.
Friday night: Cool and wet. Pickerington OH sr
Adam Kellermeyer 64-5.5 SP. Turpin Cincinnati
girls 20:44.22 4x1600 and 12:19.53 DMR. Beaumont
Cleveland Heights 9:21 4x800. Middletown 3:30.63
SMR (Jeff See 1:54.8 split).
RESULTS
- 37 DyeStat Elite performances
Ohio
Davidson Hilliard OH sr Christian Nichols
1:51.71 800m in home dual meet.
Oregon
McGrath
4:05.28, Rupp 8:14 in Oregon Twilight
Lincoln sr Mike McGrath and
Central Catholic jr Galen Rupp fell short in their
announced attempt to break state records, including one held by
Steve Prefontaine, at The Oregon Twilight Meet at Hayward Field
in Eugene Saturday night May 3. McGrath, who claimed the Oregon
state record at 800 meters when he ran a US#1 1:48.56 a week ago,
ran the mile in 4:05.28 (4:04.9 Dirk Lakeman 1977) in a hard rain.
McGrath went through a half mile in 2:01 before slowing to 64 on
the third lap and then being caught at the finish by Willamette
University's Nick Symmonds 4:03.85. McGrath took 3rd place on the
all time Oregon list, just ahead of Steve Prefontaine 4:06.0. McGrath's
en route 1500 meter time was 3:47.5. In the 3,000 meter race won
by U. Oregon's Jason Hartman in 8:02.39, Rupp finished third in
8:14.00, six seconds short of Prefontaine's state record of 8:08.0
set in Stuttgart Germany in 1969. [Leo Collins]
Benson Portland OR sr Deborah Jones, signed for
Texas Christian University, won the 400m in 55.66 against college
runners and was third in the 200m in 24.76.
McGrath
and Magness to Pre
Later Saturday, Prefontaine Classic director Tom Jordan announced
on the Track
and Field News message board that both Mike McGrath and Texas
miler Steve Magness (4:01.58 1600m) have been invited to run in
the Prefontaine Classic, where Alan Webb set his HS mile record
(3:55.43 in 2001) and Donald Sage ran 4:00.29 in 2000.
Pennsylvania
PA
week by Don Rich May 3
Great double by
Drew Eckman - Oxford PA senior runs 37.39 300H and
47.49 400 at Lower Merion meet. At Colonial Classic at Plymouth
Whitemarsh HS, Nicole Leach doubles 55.85 400m
and 43.85 300H, and Mark Korich wins 800m in 1:53.40.
Jesse Hershey 198-7 JT at Lock Haven. US#1
javelin throw by Angela Hoover 159-7
Pennsylvania
Penn
Relays - DyeStat Elite Performances
205 marks meeting cutoffs for DyeStat Elite top 100 national
ranking
South
Dakota
Dakota
Relays
79th running of Howard Wood Dakota Relays
at Sioux Falls has a fast 3200 -- Summit SD sr Melinda Zirbel
10:46.30 broke Yankton SD soph Ramsey Kavan 10:50.24
with a 71-second last lap. They moved into #2 and #3 on the all
time South Dakota list. It was Kavan's turn the next day in the
1600, which she won in 5:10.69 as Zirbel was fourth.
Utah
Mountain
View 4:05.8 SMR at Central Utah Invitational
is new Utah state record. Splits: Melynne King 26.3, Heidi Houle
25.9, Ann Marie Thomas 1:00.7, and Heidi Magill 2:12.9.
Virginia
T.
C. Williams Invitational May 2 at T. C.
Williams HS, Alexandria VA
Top Maryland and DC teams join Northern Virginia
schools in major regional meet.
Largo MD girls,
Westfield VA boys
Boys - Centerville VA sr Dan Bailey 10.65
100m.
Girls - Gaithersburg MD jr Nina Warren 12.01.
Ballou DC freshman Andria Smallwood 55.67 400m.
Eleanor Roosevelt sr Crystal Anyanwu 2:14.00 800m.
Eleanor Roosevelt MD doubles 47.85 4x100 and 3:49.88
4x400. Thomas Stone MD soph Amy Bilmanis 139-7.5
DT.
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Honor Roll - Boys
- Girls
Liza Lewis (Ashwaubenon senior) pole vaulted 12-0
at the Shawano Invite, second best ever in Wisconsin. Big men made
strong statements as Badger recruit Joe Thomas
of Brookfield Central threw 60-6 in the shot put at the Dan Benson
Invite. In the discus, Kansas recruit Gavin Ball
of Monona Grove leads the honor roll with the 184-10 toss he made
at the Fort Atkinson Invite. Thomas also had a long throw with his
178-2 made at the Brookfield Central Lancer Invite. [Wisconsin
Track and Field.com]
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