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MOBILE MEET OF CHAMPIONS
starts today with Open division - Invitational tomorrow - 

Stanford Invitational shot and discus winner Rusty Price

photo by Marty Kruger

DYESTAT COLLEGE CHOICES list grows to 291 as letter of intent day looms next week (April 5). - Princeton lands a big one: Canadian distance star Emily Kroshus, who conquered New York with a double win in the New Balance National Scholastic Indoor, told DyeStat she will further her education a few miles down the road in Princeton NJ.

OUTDOOR CRANKS UP
 Stanford - NC Central - Texas Southern - Iowa LA - PA Track Classic - Maryland - Mississippi - New York - Florida
Miami Central 3:15.13 and 7:45.86
Erica Whipple 11.37
St. Thomas Aquinas 46.10, 1:37.45
Deandre Eiland 10.61, 13.56, and 37.71
click for details

York IL smashes 4x800 indoor record with 7:42.67 - Details

NIC vs. NSI -- Who Won?
2 national indoor championships running at the same time - see John Dye's analysis

DYESTAT ELITE RANKINGS 
800 new marks in 3/24 update 
(Final indoor lists will be posted 3/31)
The national indoor meets (New York and Bloomington) added 800 new marks, either from new season bests or new faces meeting DyeStat Elite cutoffs.    Check out 4,000 performances with 18 new US#1 marks, 10 boys and 8 girls.

Armorytrack.com Classic cancelled - The April 1 meet at the NY Armory had been intended to help get Penn Relays qualifying marks for Northeast athletes.  But Bob Burdette, secondary schools chairman of the  Penn Relays, announced Thursday 3/23 that marks from the Armory meet would not be accepted for entry at the Penn Relays.

FOOT LOCKER OUTDOOR Track and Field Championships - June 16-17, Raleigh NC - Complete meet information, entry guidelines, and entry forms are available on 
Dyestat's FLO home page.

York IL 7:42.67 !

The boys national indoor 4x800 mile record was demolished Friday night (3/24) by York IL with a time of 7:42.67.  This was almost 3 seconds faster than the listed record of 7:45.55 by Boys & Girls HS of Brooklyn NY in 1998.  Splits were: Peter Cioni, 1.57.16; Peter Stasiulis, 1.56.45; Tim Hobbes, 1.55.56; Don Sage, 1.53.50. All 4 times were pr's. (The time and splits are corrected from the earlier report on DyeStat.)  Here is Dana Lawrence's first-person report: 

I got to see the most astonishing race just a couple of hours ago. The York HS 4x800 relay team absolutely shattered the national indoor HS record. In the Proviso East Invitational (held at proviso West HS), running against the state's top 4x800 team from last year (Evanston), as well as several other top relay teams (including Schaumburg, Palatine, Leo and West Chicago), the team of Peter Cioni, Peter Stasiulis, Tim Hobbes and Donald Sage ran 7.42.67, taking nearly 3 seconds off the national indoor record.  This is a 200m track. 2nd place Evanston ran a very fine 7.51, and at least 2 other teams broke 8 min.

The crowd was going nuts. I've been to a million meets, and I have never seen a crowd as crazy as this. Even the opposing teams were screaming them on. York had entered only this one event, but nearly the entire boys and girls teams were there- that's a lot of kids. Even Coach Newton was screaming in happiness. Donald's mom had tears in her eyes when it was done.

You had to be there!

Believe it or not, York still has one other runner capable of running under 1.56. Last year, John Janulis ran 1.56 in the 4x800 at state. He is now a senior.

Dana Lawrence

OUTDOOR RESULTS
(click meet name for more detail)

• I-95 Inv - Stafford VA 
  Girls: Sheena Johnson 11.74 and 24.14; Jennifer Nelms 5-10.  Boys: Byron Dunham 10.74

• GA: Stephenson Relays  - Benjamin Mays boys 41.6 4x100.

• Florida Relays - 
  Girls: Erica Whipple 11.37 MR; sprinter Sanya Richards high jumps 5-6!; Tareal Lumy 14.14H; St. Thomas Aquinas 46.10, 1:37.45 MR, and 12:23.36 DMR; Kimberli Barrett 43-4 SP; Andrea Austin 4:58.23 (Hilary White 4:59.11); Miami Northwestern 3:48.32; Chelo Canino 11-9
  Boys: Miami Central 3:15.13 and 7:45.86; Mike Swope 9:17.72; Atlantic DMR 10:19.58; Clevon Dillon 23-4.25; Brent Mobley 10.77; Miami Northwestern 41.64 and 1:26.08

• Stanford Invitational - A flock of meet records were set, but the expected 3000m clash between Sara Bei and Alejandra Barrientos failed to materialize when Bei called in sick.  Boys: Gamay Guangul 8:36.06 3000m (Fernando Cabada 8:37.42; Brandon Parker 23-6.5; and Rusty Price 58-9.25. Girls: Sani Roseby 54.76; Berkeley HS 46.87 and 3:50.73; and Jill Camarena 46-7.25 SP (Jill doubled in the discus at 158-2).  
  Also of note:  Alejandra Barrientos skipped the mile and won the 3000m in 9:43.22, equal to US#5 last year;  Jenny Aldridge won the mile nicely in 4:56.93; Aisha Margain, US#3 indoors in the 200, dropped down to the 100 and won in 11.87; Ebon Glenn 6-10 HJ.  Details, story, and pictures by Marty Kruger.

• CA Pasadena Games - Athletes of the Meet: Rhuben Williams 61-0 8.75 and 169-10; and Porchea Carroll 11.67, 24.15, and 18-03.5.  Also of note:  Lashinda Demus 41.08 300H, Nichole Denby 13.64 100H (Demus 13.84), Long Beach Wilson girls 3:43.62 (with 9th graders McKenzie Hill and Ashley Freeman joining vets Demus and Angel Tate), Riverside North girls 46.08, Laura Chen 12-0.

• Texas Southern Relays - The two fastest qualifiers in the 100 meters did not place in the finals.  In the boys, Ahmad Jasmine, 10.55 in the prelim, was DQ'd in the finals when he raised his hand and ran out of the blocks.  In the girls, Zenobia Reed 11.81 left with her coach before the finals.   There was no immediate explanation. The girls final still sizzled with Monique Hall 11:73 and Ashlee Williams 11:84.  

  The relays were as hot as the mid-80s sun.  Westbury girls tripled with a 46.31 (Adrian Albrow, Ashley Mitchell, LeKechia Taylor, Stephanie Durst) and 1:35.92 (Adrian Albrow, Ashley Mitchell, Stephanie Durst, Raasin McIntosh) and 3:48.9  (Krystle Williams, Ashley Mitchell, Stephanie Durst and Kenisha Matthews).  On the boys side, the 4x400 saw Galveston Ball 3:16.02 shade Fort Bend Willowridge 3:16.91.

• Pennsylvania Track Classic, Coatesville - Hyleas Fountain, from Central Dauphin East HS near Harrisburg, won three events enroute to being named Female Track Athlete of the Meet at the Coatesville Track Classic, Saturday, March 25, 2000. Fountain won the High Jump, The 100 Meter Dash, and the 200 Meter Dash. Cardinal O'Hara's Pat Nash was named Male Athlete of the Meet for his 1:55.87 800 meters. The Field Athletes of the Meet were Mike Moratelli of Mount Carmel, for his meet record 168 1/2 Discus (correction)…and Jody Kratzer, Greenwood, whose 133 1/4 Discus was a meet record, and Baldwin School's Jackie Rodgers, who set a meet record with her 11' pole vault.

• Lee Calhoun Inv - North Carolina Central - Girls:  Latasha Pharr 19-0, 14.69H and 1:07.34 400H;  Woodson HS 48.92 and 4:14.85 SMR.
  Boys: Joe Maruchek 49-2.5; Cardinal Gibbons 10:38.38 DMR; Unyime Akpan  14.65 and 56.74 400H.

• Yellow Jacket Relays - Iowa LA
  Boys: Westlake HS 104; Michael Jolie 186-5 JT; Gabe Caraway 14-6; Byron Bennett 22-2 and 44-3; Curley Mouton 10.99 and 22.18; Westgate 43.87.
  Girls: Lagrange HS 121;  Samantha Ford 148-1 JT; Stephanie Harmon 42-2.5 SP; Jackie John 5:23.44 and 11:53.93.

• MS Falcon Relays - Columbus - 
  Deandre Eiland 10.61, 13.56, and 37.71; Tupelo 3:21.38;  Bernice Ellis triples, Julia Cathcart doubles

• NY 19th Bishop Ford Relays - at St. John's University - all relays

• FL Bob Hayes Invitational - Jacksonville
  Boys: Walker, Stephenson GA, 14.36; Baker, PB Lakes, 38.59; Baxter and Henry (no first names or schools given), both 6-10; 
  Girls: Tareal Lurry doubles in hurdles, 14.44 and 44.35; Erica Whipple doubles in 11.91 and 24.27; Williams, Flagler, 56.40; Miami Northwestern 3:55.67; Richardson, Miami Southridge, 39-8 and 18-9; Ebony Gibson 19-0.  
  

DyeStatPA is up and running -- A new site for detailed coverage of Pennsylvania high school track / field / cross country has been launched by Don Rich, who covered the National Scholastic Indoor so ably for DyeStat.  DyeStatPA is the first state site to join DyeStat at Rivals.  The state sites will provide detailed, in-depth coverage of their state, while DyeStat will continue to provide news of national significance.  Check out DyeStatPA.

PENINSULA RELAYS
 GREAT AMERICAN 2000  - ARCADIA INVITATIONAL -  GOLDEN WEST -
  CAPITAL BELTWAY - 
T.C. WILLIAMS - MEXICO - DOGWOOD -  - HAMPTON-PHILLIP - 
BOB GOURLEY'S LIST 

Erik Heinonen, Eugene OR, ran with the collegians at the Stanford Invitational and clocked a 14:35 5000 meters.

MD star Greg McCormick injured
Middletown MD jr Greg McCormick, who authored a rare 7-0, 15-0 HJ-PV double this past indoor season, will wear a neck brace instead of gold medals for outdoor.  He landed outside the pole vault pit in a meet at Middletown Saturday 3/25 and suffered a hairline fracture in his neck..  Greg had surgery Sunday and his dad, Bill McCormick, said: "They had to realign his neck. He had an anterior compression fracture of the fifth cervical vertebrae. The surgery went very well. He's a very lucky young man. There is no evidence of spinal cord damage."

Golden West Invitational
June 10
will give San Francisco side trip to first 90 entries - see complete GWI information on DyeStat GWI page.

3rd place is different things to different people:

It's perfect - Walt Kingsbery's impressions of the NSI mile, as told to Conrad Haber

"I want more" - Kiara Adams, a novice shot putter as a senior in MD, talks to William Vaughan

Peninsula Relays
April 15 Hampton VA
Darling Memorial Stadium

DyeStat Mexico!
Legend says Bob Beamon practiced there.  Now, the American School leads the only high school track league in Mexico City.  DyeStat Mexico page brings news of ASCOPA - the ASociacion de COlegios Particulares. 

• How to speak Track in Spanish

• Rankings 3/7

• Results 3/7

• Results 3/3

• Results 2/18

ARCADIA INVITATIONAL April 8 
the 33rd running of this great early meet moves from Arcadia CA HS to Citrus College, Glendora CA - complete information on DyeStat's Arcadia home page

GREAT AMERICAN 2000 - Sept 21-24
Race of Champions team entries announced by meet director Rick Hill for big meet in Charlotte in September.  See DyeStat Great American home page.

Hampton-Phillip Track Classic  April 15 at Silver Creek High School, San Jose CA.  See Hampton-Phillips home page for entry forms and meet information.

2nd Capital Beltway Classic (MD) moves to Long Reach HS 4/15 - entry form & all details on CBC Home Page

18th T.C. Williams Invitational VA May 6 to draw from 10 states - entry forms & details on TCW home page

Dogwood Classic resumes  April 29 at the U. of Virginia, the 29th running of this meet, but the first since 1993. Schools from VA, MD, TN, SC, GA, WV and DC are invited.  See Dogwood Classic home page for entry forms.

Bob Gourley's Weight and Hammer Lists
--3/18 indoor list

Women's Steeple report by James Fields

• 3/22 report - results and other news

• World JR record set by Melissa Rollison in Sidney

• Results from South Africa, Australia, and the US

• NCAA offering more steeple opportunities

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