Pre-Season National
XC Rankings
Poly Long Beach CA
boys and Saratoga Springs NY girls start the season
#1 in Marc Bloom's Nike / Foot Locker Super 25. The
Harrier Rankings
XC previews and rankings
in the states
Pennsylvania - Are
Shawn Cavanaugh and Julia Pudlin back from injuries?
Georgia - Marist
girls, Rebecca Mullen, Brookwood boys, Joe Thorne top early
rankings
New Mexico -
Gallup, Sandia, Albuquerque Academy, Felicia Guliford tabbed
for success
Massachusetts
- St. John's Prep, Oliver Ames favored in pre-season
Klim Poll
Nevada - Phil
Lawton looks into his crystal ball
Arkansas - Clint
Pevril's scouting report of all classes
Kansas
- Shawnee Mission NW boys, Olathe South girls lead 6A lists
Idaho -
Brett Hill ranks Capital boys, Meridian girls best in A1-Div
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Cross
Country
Preview
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Summer is ending, leaves will turn,
snow will fall, and we're going to Disney World -- it
is the 2001 cross country season. DyeStat is previewing
the season over the remaining days before Labor Day.
This is the information you need to plan your season
and pick the winners.
- Pre-Season Leader List
- top
returning runners ranked by their performances
last year in outdoor 2 mile, cross country 3 mile,
and cross country 5k.
- Great American -
Rick Hill's
extravaganza is the early season highlight, bringing
together the top teams in the country in a festive
atmosphere. There is more than one meet this year,
with a new name for the series: Nike's Great Races
of America. First, on September 8, is the Great
Race of the Great Bay in San Francisco's Golden
Gate Park. Then, on September 21-22 at Charlotte,
is the 3rd Great
American Championships.
- 23rd Foot Locker -
complete information on the big series
that leads to crowning the national champion boy and
girl at Disney World in December. Four regional meets
produce 64 runners who advance to the national finals.
The top 3 boys and top 2 girls finishers from last
year have gone to college, opening the way for new
champions. Returning
Runners from 2000 - Nike
named presenting sponsor - FLCCC
champions 1979-2000 - FLCCC regional pages: Midwest
- Northeast
- South -
West - FLCCC
home page
- Foot Locker Favorites -
DyeStat's picks of the top 20 runners
in each region who figure to be in the hunt for the
coveted 8 tickets to Disney World for a beach party,
Magic Kingdom parade and, oh yes, the national finals.
These lists will be updated weekly to reflect the
ups and downs of the season.
- Nike Athlete of the Week
- DyeStat will select the boy and girl
with the most noteworthy accomplishment of the preceding
week. There will also be an Athlete of the Year award
at the end of the season.
- The Harrier Rankings
- The only national and
regional team rankings - by Marc Bloom, veteran running
writer and publisher of The Harrier magazine. The
Rankings
- 54th Mt. SAC Invitational
- biggest meet of the year in terms
of raw numbers (14,000 runners) - 80 HS races over
the hills and abandoned airplane runways of Mount
San Antonio College, Walnut CA - 3 races on the course
at any given moment, with races starting every 8-10
minutes -
meet page
- 29th Manhattan Invitational
- the Eastern version of biggest meet
of the year (10,000 runners) - venerable meet at venerable
Van Cortlandt Park in New York City at the upper end
of the 7th Avenue subway in the Bronx - meet
page
- 3rd Nike Border Clash
- The best runners from Oregon and
Washington battle for Pacific Northwest bragging rights
on the campus of Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton
OR, which is close to the Oregon-Washington border.
meet page
- Calendar - All
the meets that we know about.
- State Previews -
what to expect in the states - Pennsylvania
- Georgia - New
Mexico - Massachusetts
- Nevada - Arkansas
- Kansas
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Short Takes
-
Jeremy Silverman
of Annville PA, US#4 in shot put in 2001, is switching
from Virginia Tech to UCLA. He was released from his letter
of intent at Virginia Tech because of a coaching change.
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Nik Arrhenius
will delay his Brigham Young throwing debut for 3 years.
The Mountain View UT thrower, whose incredible throw at
Arcadia added 9 feet to the US discus record, will serve
on a Mormon mission in Sweden for 2 years and then will
redshirt for another year, according to his father, Anders
Arrhenius, who is a native of Sweden.
Edinburgh
International Games
Still no word from USATF, but here are USA results from the
Scottish
Athletics Service on last Saturday's meet (8/25):
Men
100: 5th, Wes Felix 10.90
400: 2nd, Brandon Matlock 47.26
800: 1st, Jesse O'Connell 1:49.79
5000: 3rd, Chris Emme 14:19.43
3000 steeple: 3rd, Jonathan Gibson 9:13.09
110H: 2nd, Joshua Walker 14.17
4x100: 3rd, USA 40.69
Women
200: 2nd, Janice Davis 24.66
800: 5th, Janine Jones 2:10.68
1500: 5th, Spring Dawson 4:33.40
400H: 1st, Sheena Johnson 57.07
3000: 2nd, Erika Odlaug 9:32.86
HJ: 5th, Natassia Vice 1.60 (5-3)
LJ: 1st, Ychlindria Spears 5.92 (19-5.25)
Jav: 1st, Katy Polansky 44.19 (144-11)
HT: 2nd, Kristen Michalski 52.60 (172-7)
4x400: 2nd, USA 3:35.62
adidas
Midwest Indoor Track Classic
becomes DyeStat Charter Sponsor
BALTIMORE MD 8/24/01 - DyeStat today
named the adidas Midwest Indoor Track Classic (MITC) a Charter
Sponsor of DyeStat.
MITC is a new meet founded by Chris Lester
of Omaha Nebraska. The inaugural running will be February
9, 2002 at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln NE. The Devaney
Sports Complex there has a new, state of the art indoor track
and field facility that is one of the finest in the country.
Lester plans to make the meet a major mid-winter destination
for high school athletes and is also scheduling several elite
events for world class athletes.
Charter Sponsor status is given to those organizations
that commit significant support to DyeStat in the 2001-2002
school year, a period that is critical for the future of DyeStat
as the premier high school Web site in America. Charter Sponsors
will be recognized in the footer of all DyeStat pages for
5 years. MITC joins Nike, Great American Cross Country, and
the National Scholastic Sports Foundation as the fourth Charter
Sponsor.
College
Choices 2001
1,663 college choices
Elite events added to
adidas Midwest Indoor Classic
World class miler Jason Pyrah and hurdler Jenny Adams
will run in Nebraska at the new high school meet in February.
More
Bobby Smith tests positive
The Hopatcong NJ javelin
thrower has been disqualified from his victory at the USATF
Junior Nationals Championship and received a public warning
from the US Anti Doping
Agency for a substance offense.
USADA said Smith tested positive
for ephedrine, a prohibited substance under IAAF rules. The
agency said Smith accepted the maximum sanction for a first
offense involving ephedrine. "I was unaware that the
over-the-counter supplements I was taking contained a prohibited
substance. I made a mistake, which I will never forget. To
all young athletes, learn from my mistake, and make sure you
know what's in your supplements," Smith said.
Smith, who has a football
scholarship to attend Monmouth University, won three national
championships in a row in two weekends in June (Golden West,
AOC nationals, and Jr Nationals). Monmouth University provided
this statement to DyeStat on Smith's status:
"As a result of testing
positive on the USATF/IAAF drug test, Bobby Smith had to disclose
to the NCAA that he had tested positive on a prior drug test
administered by a non-NCAA governing body. Because of this
Smith must take and pass an NCAA-administered drug test before
he can participate in an official athletic game or contest
at Monmouth University. Upon passing the
NCAA-administered drug test, Smith would then be entered into
the NCAA random drug testing pool with all of the other athletes.
"Smith's grant-in-aid, athletic and academic
standing at Monmouth University will not be affected because
the test was administered prior to his matriculating at Monmouth
University and drug testing by the NCAA and USATF/IAAF are
not reciprocating. He is currently practicing with the Monmouth
University football squad and has expressed interest in participating
on the Monmouth University track and field squad."
USA juniors beat Great
Britain
Preps play key role - women's 4x100 relay sets stadium
record 45.28 - on to Scotland next - Story
Two indoor championships
again next year
Behind the scenes efforts to merge the Nike Indoor Classic
and the National Scholastic Indoor Championships have failed.
DyeStat has learned that the New York Armory has signed a
contract with the Metropolitan Athletics Congress for the
NSIC to return to the Armory in 2002, and the National Scholastic
Sports Foundation has agreed to return NIC to the Prince Georges
County Sports complex in Landover MD. Thus, it appears that
the two meets will compete for athletes and national championship
status for the fourth straight year.
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