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This weekend: 

• DyeStat Elite update - 429 performances ranked (includes Brown)

• Brown Invitational - Day 1: Dan Olson shocks with 7-4 high jump; Day 2 athletes let it snow outside and sizzled inside.  

• College Choices 2001 update - 191 choices now listed by home state as well as college

• YearEndSpecial in Pennsylvania - by Don Rich

Latest News

DyeStat Elite 2001 Indoor  
Molly Lederman's 13-0.5 US record pole vault and Dan Olson's 7-4 New York State record high jump are added to lists in second update of the young season  We already have 429 performances from 61 meets that beat the 2001 indoor cutoffs for the unique DyeStat Elite top 100 national rankings.

• DyeStat Elite Rankings as of 12/30 
• DyeStat Elite 2001 Indoor Rankings home
• DyeStat Elite 2001 Indoor cutoffs - DyeStat maintains a database of all performances received by DyeStat that beat the cutoffs.  The table also shows the 2001 National Scholastic Indoor entry standards, the 2001 Nike Indoor Classic entry standards, the 2000 US #1 and #100 marks, the 2000 NSI 1st and 6th place mark, and the 2000 NIC 1st and 6th place mark.  
• How to Get Ranked - procedures for submitting performances that are not in meets already posted on DyeStat.

ATTENTION meet directors: Be sure to send meet results to dye@dyestat.com to assure your meet gets publicity and the athletes get the recognition they deserve.   If the meet is scored in HyTek, send the backup file HYBACKUP.ZIP.

ATTENTION coaches, athletes, and media.   Send qualifying  individual performances for meets not already on DyeStat on the form, How to Get Ranked.

RI Brown Invitational - 
Brown Inv results - with all DyeStat Elite performances listed
Day 2
Kasia Williams  8.18, Shenae Dawkins 8.19
Tiondra Ponteen 1:14.95 US#1 500m
Julia Hincman 5:08.32 (by .08 over C. Lenge)
Robeson NY 1:42.08
Colonie NY 9:50.39 (without Katie Twarog, who is recuperating from a Christmas Day crash that killed her mother)
Brian Susser 1:06.83
Brockton MA 1:31.17
Day 1
Dan Olson NY 7-4,  NY state record
Molly Lederman MA 12-8
Christian Brothers NJ 10:32.44 DMR

• Brown Invitational results - with all DyeStat Elite performances listed
• Dan Olson's spectacular high jump series - by George Febles, webmaster of armorytrack.com - "When its your day, you seem able to do anything." - "one of the most exciting moments in High School track"

NJ Seton Hall Games
Boys & Girls wins 4 girls relays, Camden NJ 3 boys - Christiana DE sr Danielle Bailey, signed for Seton Hall, shines on her future home floor with sprint double 6.8h, 25.4h -- Boys and Girls' Stacey Livingston continues to sizzle in 2:12 800m (8 second margin) -- Long Reach MD sr Rolanda Howard 18-1.5 -- Rahway NJ sr Danny Johnson sprint double 6.0h and 22.0h -- Bryan Boyett 4:26.8 edges Mike Myers by 0.1 in mile -- Deep Creek VA sr Quentin Matthews 6-10.25 HJ.  Complete Results

NY Ultima Holiday Classic - William Penn PA girls light up the Big Apple with 3:51.09 MR US#1, 9:36.17, 4:11.79 SMR 
Girls:  
Paul Robeson  NY 1:41.15 MR US#1
Lake Braddock VA 12:34.55 DMR
Boys: 
South Lakes  10:42.11 DMR
Mt. St. Michael's NY 3:23.32 
Complete Results

NY Pearl River Holiday Inv
Philip Marsh, Amityville NY 45-3.75 TJ; Jesse Mizzone, Passaic Valley 11:30; New Rochelle NY girls 1:46.6 - Complete Results

Colonie NY star critically injured in Christmas crash - Katie Twarog, Colonie NY senior distance star, was critically injured in an auto accident Christmas Day (12/25/00) that killed her mother, Cynthia Twarog, 48.  Katie was driving in icy, windy conditions when the car veered into a head-on collision with an oncoming car in Great Barrington MA.  The Twarogs were headed for Hartford CT to visit relatives.  Katie Twarog, who was out most of cross country season with a stress fracture, recently accepted a scholarship at Providence College.  She is in intensive care in Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield MA.   Details on the accident and the reaction of the team

New US girls indoor PV record! 
Molly Lederman 13' 0.5" 

MA MSTCA Winter Festival
Brockton MA boys doubled 1:32.86 and 3:29.03;  sr Derek Anderson, Xaverian 57-3.75;  sr Said Ahmed, Boston English 4:22.86 mile; so Ari Lambie, Bromfield 2:59.04 1000m. 
Complete Results: Large - Small

Monique Henderson decides -- it's UCLA! - San Diego star announces she has decided to attend UCLA, which won out over South Carolina, Southern California, and Stanford.  She said she just felt right on her campus visit and will sign with UCLA in April, having missed the November early signing period.   "UCLA lets me stay close to home," said Monique, whose 50.74 in the California State Meet last June was the fastest 400 meters ever run by a US prep female.   She also made the finals at the US Olympic Trials, earning a spot on the US Olympic Team at Sidney.  

Millrose Mile selection guidelines announced by Larry Byrne and Jim Spier, chairmen of the selection committees.  

Gourley's List - Steve Silva, Laura Gerraughty top early season weight throw rankings.  Gourley's List 12/24

The Harrier
Final 2000 Cross Country National Rankings 
Boys:  
Mountain View UT
Girls: 
Rockford MI, Saratoga NY (tie)
The final rankings confirm the Number One status that took shape in September after the Great American Cross Country Festival in Charlotte, the biggest confrontation of nationally ranked teams in the history of prep cross country.  The Mountain View UT boys won at Charlotte and remained undefeated the rest of the way through the Utah state meet.  The Saratoga NY girls won at Charlotte as well as the Manhattan Invitational 2 weeks later, conquering a bunch of nationally ranked teams in the process.  They pummeled strong New York state competition the remainder of the year with the deepest squad in anyone's memory.  Rockford MI girls started the season Number One and did nothing to tarnish that image in an undefeated season.  Because of Michigan state association rules, however, Rockford could not travel to Charlotte or other meets where they would have faced highly ranked teams.  Thus, like many times in college football before the BCS scheme, we have co-champions on the girls side.    

The Final Rankings were little changed from the November 19 list, except for two significant moveups --  Peninsula CA girls off their strong California State Meet and the Flathead Kalispell MT boys after their remarkable 1-3-19 showing in the Foot Locker West regional.

Rockford MI and Mountain View UT were noteworthy for having both their boys and girls teams in the top 10. 

The Harrier Final 2000 XC Rankings

National 
Scholastic 
Indoor
March 9-11 NY City
Complete information

College Choices 2001 - list grows to 191 with update as of 12/30.   

See DyeStat's College Choices 2001 list -  To add a name, send email to dye@dyestat.com giving the state of the athlete, boy or girl, the school they will attend, and your basis for the information.    

Big changes for 
2001 Great American  
cross country meets are announced by Rick Hill - new site, new regional series, and international competition.  Applications are being accepted now and are due by January 15, 2001.  Details

DyeStat
Store
opens
At long last, we have our online store open. Two items are stocked:

• Running with the Buffaloes, by Chris Lear

Running with the Buffaloes $19.00

• The Harrier magazine, by Marc Bloom, the leading publication for HS running news

Soon we will have DyeStat t-shirts and hats and more. 

Girls PV starting in Connecticut and there is already an unofficial indoor record holder: Brookfield jr Leah Williams, who did 9-8 at the Wesleyan Development meet 12/27.   Leah's dad, Scott Williams, is helping sponsor a women's pole vault clinic Jan 28 at Yale's Cox Cage, featuring Dave Nelson, coach of Olympic champion and world record holder Stacy Dragila.  For information on the clinic, contact Williams at 203-743-5542 ext 7 or email swilliam@exec-reg.com  

New US girls indoor PV record! 
Molly Lederman 13' 0.5" 

Molly Lederman, a junior at New Jewish HS, Waltham MA, pole vaulted 13' 0.5" 12/20/00 for a new US high school girls indoor record.  The old record of 13' 0.25" was set by Samantha Shepard at last year's USATF indoor championships.  Both girls train with Jeff Robbins' prolific Air Time club in Massachusetts.   The new record was set in a USATF development meet at Brown University.  Molly returns there Dec. 29 for the Brown Invitational.  

Final DyeStat 2000 XC Leader List : 

Final lists of 2,387 performances from 360 meets are headed by the truly elite prep cross country runners.  Sara Bei's Foot Locker win was the fastest girls 5k time of the year.  Two-time Foot Locker champ Dathan Ritzenhein ended with the five fastest boys 5k times.  Three-mile leaders were the Foot Locker runner-ups: Alan Webb and Anita Siraki.    

Boys 5k (1st: Dathan Ritzenhein MI 14:11 - 1,035 marks 16:05 or better) - The list reflects the 1-2-3 finish of the Foot Locker finals by the Big 3 runners of the year.  Michigan superstar Dathan Ritzenhein turned in his 8th sub-15:00 performance in winning his second straight Foot Locker championship.  This gave him the fastest 5 times of the season and 7 of the top 9.  Foot Locker runnerup Alan Webb of VA, had the other two top-9 times and 4 sub-15:00 marks for the season.  Ryan Hall of CA,  had two sub-15:00 performances, including his third place finish at Orlando.
Girls 5k (1st: Sara Bei CA 16:56 - 691 marks 19:05 or better) - Hoover Glendale CA sr Anita Siraki and Montgomery Santa Rosa CA sr Sara Bei moved to the top of this list in the California State Meet, with Siraki's 16:59 the only sub-17:00 mark in the nation at that time.  In the Foot Locker Finals at Orlando, the same two came down the stretch side by side to add two more sub-17:00 times to the list.  Bei prevailed this time in 16:56, one second ahead of Siraki, winning both the Foot Locker championship and the Leader List #1 for the season.   
Boys 3 Mile (1st: Alan Webb VA 13:57 - 396 marks 15:35 or better) - Alan Webb's 13:57 for a short, but hilly Virginia course retains Number One.   
Girls 3 Mile (1st: Anita Siraki CA 16:38 - 265 marks 18:35 or better) - Siraki turned in the top 3 times in this list.  Only two other girls ran sub-17:00 -- Julie Allen CA and Christa Benton FL.

• XC 2000 Leader Lists - Final
• XC 2000 Leader List index (15 updates)

DYESTAT TICKER TAPE
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ME USM/Mondo Classic - U. of Southern Maine
PA YearEndSpecial - at Lehigh
VA Rankings by Eddie Williams
Brown Invitational - Providence RI
MSTCA Winter Festival - Large - Small
Junior Nationals 2001 home page
NY Pearl River Holiday Inv
NY Ultima Holiday Classic 
NJ Seton Hall Games - Day 1
Foot Locker Outdoor home page
Katie Twarog, Colonie NY, critically hurt in crash
Golden West Invitational home page
California State Meet home page
Great Southwest Classic home page
Texas State Meet home page
Penn Relays home page
Arcadia Invitational home page
Mobile Meet of Champions home page
Indiana Pre-Season Team Rankings - Carmel boys, Northrop girls
New Balance National Scholastic Indoor home page
Millrose Games home page
Colgate Women's Games home page
Nike Indoor Classic home page
Millrose Mile selection guidelines
New Hampshire indoor series 12/16
Bob Gourley's List 12/17 - first weight throw rankings of 2000-2001
FIT Relays story - by Pearl Watts - Lake Braddock is now the team to beat in Northern Virginia
AAU Jr Olympics Cross Country championships
DyeStat Elite 2001 Indoor Rankings - first list as of 12/20/00
DyeStat Elite 2001 Indoor Rankings home page
DyeStat Elite 2001 Indoor cutoffs
The Harrier final 2000 XC rankings
PA Dickinson Invitational
VA FIT Relays Results and Photos
Final 2000 XC Leader Lists
MD Pangaea Invitational
Baltimore Group 2 - Mervo sweeps team titles
College Choices 2001 update 12/15
XCtrack.com final cross country poll 
FIT Relays preview 
Foot Locker Finals
South Carolina announces 2001 signings

Prior Weeks' Ticker Tapes
Last Week's Headlines

1:30.98 is #2 all-time US 600 meters  by Stacey Livingston of Boys and Girls HS at the 47th Bishop Loughlin Games.  Meet records fall all day at the super swift New York Armory oval. (It was already fast last year and they have a NEW surface this year!)  Boys MVP is Travis Yancy of Roman Catholic for his 1:19.87 600 meters MR.   Bishop Loughlin Games results.

VA FIT Relays - Lake Braddock VA wins 5 of 8 relays at George Mason - 25 action photos and complete results.

Farewell Cross Country, 
hello Indoor
The Foot Locker finals ended the prep cross country season.  Now, without missing a beat, DyeStat and high school athletes switch to indoor track.   DyeStat covered 2  meets on-site last weekend:  Pangaea Invitational at the new Prince Georges County  MD facility and the 6th FIT Relays at George Mason U., Fairfax VA on Saturday.  The FIT Relays attracted 50 schools from VA, DC, MD, and DE.  We also had electronic coverage from the New York Armory, which will host 85 indoor meets this season, of the big Bishop Loughlin Games.

PA Dickinson Inv - William Penn 9:57.8 and  4:06.0; Dominique Darden Harrisburg 7.2; Juanita Broaddus William Penn 59.7. Results

Maryland Gets Great 
New Indoor Facility  
Maryland athletes have moved from the dark ages (the old Baltimore Armory) to the 21st century with the opening of the beautiful new Prince Georges County Sports and Learning Complex, Landover MD.  The complex is next to FedEx Stadium, home of the Washington Redskins, and came from negotiations between the late Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke and PG County officials for local infrastructure.  It is called a complex because the track and soccer arena is only half of the building -- there is also a championship swimming facility, family swimming center, fitness center, gymnastics competition facility, and mat sports facility.   The PG Sports Complex (how can we possibly use the complete title all the time?) will host the Maryland State Meet and the Nike Indoor Classic this season among many other events.  Thursday night there was Maryland's major season kickoff event, the Pangaea Invitational, and appreciative athletes turned in some great early season performances.   Pangaea Invitational results and pictures of the PG County Sports Complex. 

Junior Olympics 
Cross Country

USATF - Reno NV 12/9
All-Star Red of Indiana sweeps all four team titles in YM/YW and Intermediate.  Danny Wolf NV 16:30.2 and Kassi Andersen UT 19:53.8 win YM/YW individual titles.  Kaleb VanOrt IN16:45.8 and Amber Harper UT 19:32.2 win intermediate.  Complete Results

AAU - Joplin MO 12/2
Brocaw Blazers win 5 team titles.  YM/YW winners: Mike Haschel 15:27.60 and Leslie Carden 17:56.20.  Intermediate winners: Adam Perkins 15:26.30 and Brianna McLeod 18:17.30
Complete Results

XCtrack.com panel votes Mountain View UT boys, Rockford MI girls #1 in final poll.  

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