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Hey, coach, do you know what your kids are doing this summer?
Jeff Arbogast, coach of the highly successful Bingham UT teams, knows -- they are out in the mountains running.  Above are jr Stacie Grover  and sr Matt Haberman in a weekly run at Alta UT.  They are running in Arbogast's "Summer Prep macrocycle" along with summer trainers from other regions of the US.  Coach Arbogast said, "Training is going spectacularly well as we prepare for the 2000 season as the best ever in the history of [Bingham]."   Best ever?  If it's more than usual coach's optimism, that would be something.  Last year's Bingham girls were hailed as the best in US prep history and three girls graduated.  Stacie Grover is part of Arbogast's  "reloading" operation.  We will see how successful the operation is when Bingham comes down from the mountain and travels East to Charlotte in September to defend their Race of Champions title in the Great American Cross Country Festival.

Class of 2000
COLLEGE CHOICES
Now 1,356 names as of 7/9, including:
Eric Rasmussen NE to Nebraska, Jenna Keith CA to UC Irvine, Jenny Liou ID to UC Irvine, Julie Manson CA to UC Irvine, Ryan Kedley IA to Baylor, Martha Buckley DC to MIT, Amanda Wardlaw DC to Oberlin, Jennifer Oakes DE to St. Joseph's PA, Anna Diko CA to West Point, Erin Price GA to Alabama, Jessica Jennings DC to Temple 

YOUTH
The HS season may be over, but the age-group season is just cranking up. USATF and AAU association and regional championships qualify athletes from 8 to 18 for the Junior Olympics nationals at the end of July. Expanded DyeStat Youth section covers this exciting action throughout the United States.
USATF - USATF JO Buffalo - AAU - AAU JO Orlando

We are collecting all the association and regional results we can find.  This is most likely the only place on the Internet to see all Junior Olympic results in one place. 

WANTED: 
YOUTH MEET RESULTS
DyeStat wants to post as many association and regional AAU and USATF meet results as possible. They must be in electronic form - send the HyTek backup file if you can. Be sure to identify the scope of the meet and where the advancers go. Send email to dye@dyestat.com

UPCOMING:

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

Summertime . . .

. . . and the living is easy. Well, it may be summer, but DyeStat is not on vacation. Here are some of the interesting things we are working on:

• DyeStat All American team -- our selections of the most outstanding performers of the year.

• Youth Section -- news of the Junior Olympics championships and other major age-graded meets

• Cross Country section -- it's not too early to start thinking of September and the big meets to come: Great American, Mt. Sac, Manhattan, and Foot Locker.

• Best Marks of the Post Season -- special lists of all the DyeStat Elite performances at the big post-season meets -- Golden West, Foot Locker Outdoor, Great Southwest, Junior Nationals, Golden South -- plus a comparison of the two national HS meets, GWI and FLO.

• DyeStat Elite -- the 100-deep outdoor rankings will be updated soon for the post season meets and again to include all the state meets for final season rankings. (We got diverted for obvious reasons since the last update on May 31.) This season's rankings will come from our unrivalled database of 10,000 performances.

• DyeStat YearBook 2000 -- the most incredible collection available anywhere of results, rankings, and photos on HS track & field & cross country, all in a fold-flat book for easy reference. There may even be a CD ROM edition with videos.

• DyeStat T-shirts -- available soon in DyeStat's own section of the Rivals on-line e-commerce store.

• Videos -- more video clips from the great meets of the year.

• College Choices -- the NCAA signing period continues until August, and the emails are still pouring in. We should end up with about 1,500 names.

So stay tuned and enjoy, along with whatever else you are doing this summer.

Who was the best state at FLO?
New Jersey boys and California girls win unofficial "team" titles in DyeStat scoring.

FOOT LOCKER OUTDOOR
The season came to an exciting climax in Raleigh. Complete results, photo essays, event results with pictures, analysis and highlights - DYESTAT FLO PAGE

Bryce Ruiz 26:51 to win Commonwealth Games 5-miler

Williamsburg VA soph sets meet record at Salem VA. 
Results

DONNA
ON THE SIDE 
in Arizona
at the Great Southwest Classic
 - 20 photos and interviews in the stands 
Part 1 - Part 2

Portage
Cross Country Invitational
expects more than 200 schools from several states to challenge Rockford MI, which swept the girls and boys titles last year with 17 and 27 points.  Entries are still open. 
October 7, 2000
Portage MI
Meet Information

Colleen Winzeler, George Mason VA distance star, is in a hurry to get to college.  Only a junior, she is taking summer courses to graduate in August and signed a letter of intent to run in the fall at Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho.  

July 1
 was first contact day for class of 2001.
DyeStat Guide to the Recruiting Game, a new series by Donna Dye - rules of the game - how to reach your goals - how to be eligible

Cross Country 2000 Calendar
Great American in September, Manhattan and Mt SAC in October, Foot Locker regionals in November, Foot Locker National in December - plus many great meets around the nation.

DyeStat Features index

A new Features index has been added, with a link in the left navigation column.  For your convenience, here is the current index:  

Standing features

• Donna on the Side - While husband John is on the track getting statistics, Donna Dye roams the sidelines and the grandstand meeting people.   These are her reports.
• Photo Essays - special treatment of dramatic moments at high school track meets. If a picture is worth a thousand words, these pages are worth millions.
• DyeStat Guide to the Recruiting Game - ins and outs of choosing a college and getting a scholarship

Spot Features

• Tiffany Abney - the coach's daughter is not your average 15-year-old. The fastest US freshman 400 meter hurdler ever tells Don Rich about her season. (July 2000)
• PA stars are united for US - the United Stars track club of Philadelphia places two girls --  Evelyn Dwyer and Tiffany Abney -- on the US junior team by their performances at the Junior Nationals. (July 2000) 
• The Distance Gods - a series by Steve Underwood on the resurgence in HS distance running in the year 2000.  Eight absorbing stories on the leading boys and girls in the US. (June 2000)

Bob Gourley's Lists - June 25 hammer rankings

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