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Great American 2001
San Francisco - Charlotte - New York
Rick Hill's huge cross country festival gets even bigger in its third year with two more races making it a transcontinental series:

• Great Race of the Great Bay - Sept 8 - Golden Gate Park, San Francisco CA

• Great American Championships - Sept 21-22 - Stowe Botanical Gardens, Charlotte NC

• Great Big Apple Challenge - Sept 29 - Van Cortlandt Park, New York NY

• Online registration now and more information

• DyeStat's Great American 2001 page

• Great American 2000 on DyeStat

Latest News

Biggest Weekend to Date 
of 2001 Indoor Season -
Ritz and Webb open campaigns - Big meets in NY, LA, TX, CT, CO, NH, VA, MI

DyeStat Elite update has 22 new US leaders - total  of 1,058 marks
Jan 17 DyeStat Elite rankings

This is the 6th list of the 2001 indoor season, and it reflects a big shakeup and expansion after the biggest weekend of the season to date.  Major interstate meets in TX, LA, NY, CT, NH, CO and VA produced an amazing 22 new US#1 performances.   New leaders came from season debuts by such established stars as Alan Webb, Brendan Christian, Joshua Walker, Johnathan Reeves, Janice Davis, Alexis Joyce, and Ranysha LeBlanc, plus the remarkable New York PSAL girls' showing in the Martin Luther King Relays on MLK day at the New York Armory.

MI Dathan Ritzenhein opens season with state record and US#1 4:09 1600 meters, followed by 9:12.8 for 3200 meters at Central Michigan U., Mt. Pleasant MI on 1/15. 

3 US#1 girls relay marks in MLK Relays at NY Armory
Paul Robeson 1:40.09 4x200 -
Boys and Girls 3:48.92 4x400 and 4:01.39 SMR -
Stacey Livingston leads B&G with 56.4, 2:11.12 anchors
Details

Kate Johnston, Laura Gerraughty battle for US#1 
in weight throw - John-Paul Smolenski leads boys.  Gourley's Weight Throw List 1/14
Here is Kevin Gray's report in the Manchester Union Leader of the Johnston-Gerraughty duel at the Dartmouth Relays, courtesy of Lance Turley:  

HANOVER 1/14/01 - Records may fall and some athletes will be long forgotten, but few at the 32nd annual Dartmouth Relays will ever forget the classic battle between Nashua's Laura Gerraughty and rival Kate Johnston of Warwick, R.I., yesterday.

Inside the busy Leverone Fieldhouse, all attention shifted to the girls' weight throw event, when these outstanding performers grasped the 20-pound weight. In a combined 12 throws during the morning session, Gerraughty and Johnston combined to break the meet record seven times - each time one-upping their rival.

Eventually Johnston claimed the top honor, nipping Gerraughty, and smashing the meet record by more than five feet. The University of North Carolina-bound Gerraughty, a senior at Nashua, finished runner-up after recording a personal best of 54 feet, 8¼ inches. Johnston and Gerraughty are ranked No. 1 and 2 in the country, respectively.

Gray's full article.

NH Dartmouth Relays
Laura Gerraughty 52-4!
Laura's shot put series in the Women's Open competition Sunday:
Foul  - 47'11 -  49'0 -  50'4 -  51'11.25" -  52'4"
(each throw better than the one before)
Chris Henderson doubles 6.62 & 50.64 (by 0.01 each time)
Erick Colon 1:57.59 US#2 (leads 6 under 2:00)
John Carle, St. Jean Olympique 4:19.96 (Said Ahmed 4:20.30 US#2)
Dan Olson 7-2.25
Stephane Richard, Quebec, 49-10.5
Joslyn Woodard 7.24
Chanel Latimer 7.30 & 58.91
Megan Olds 2:14.15 US#2 (Anne Hessberg 2:17.19)
Mary Serdakowski 8.27
Colonie girls 9:36.98
Molly Lederman 12-6.25 (Samantha Shepard 12-6)
Joslyn Woodard 17-9
Laura Gerraughty 52-4 US#1
COMPLETE RESULTS

LA LSU Classic
Highlights
Deep South makes it mark at Baton Rouge.  Four new US#1 marks: Janice Davis, Kaylah Burks, Josh Walker, and Brad Smith.  
Janice Davis MS 7.00 US#1 (leads 8 girls under 
7.40) and 57.09 US#5
Marquita Dortch GA 8.20 US#4 (Marquita Busby 8.24 US#5)
Kaylah Burks AL 5-8 US#1
Shamekia Louis LA 18-5.25 US#3 (2 others over 18-0)
Skyler Green LA 6.37 US#2 FAT (Ahmed Jasmine 6.40)
Ashton Collins LA 48.74 US#2
Scott Fuqua AL 8:43.51 3k US#2
Joshua Walker GA 7.32 55H US#1
Brad Smith TX 15-4 US#1
Chris Lawson LA 23-3.75 US#2 (Reggie McCutcheon GA 23-1.5 US#3)
Brandon Atkinson LA 47-11 US#2
COMPLETE RESULTS

NY Stanner Games
4 new US leaders
Kedar Inico 33.84 US#1 (Ron Hussey 34.12 US#2, Chase McKenzie 34.80 US#3)
Jamar Ervin 6.30 US#1 FAT
Justin Romaniuk  4:18.86 US#1
Nicole Yokum 10:30.65 300m US#6
Chinny Offor 40.03 300m US#4
Simon Gratz PA 1:44.84 US#6
Ed Palermo 2:34.35 US#4
Trumaine Pendleton 46-5.5 US#2
Campus Magnet boys 8:02.05 MR  US#5
Camden boys 3:17.54 US#1
Campus Magnet boys 1:29.67 US#2 (US#1 Camden 1:29.91)
HIGHLIGHTS & DyeStat Elite marks

TX Carl Lewis Invitational 
Texas power invades the DyeStat Elite national indoor rankings - Brendan Christian - shot putters Reeves & McKinney - Radermacher sisters - Zenobia Reed - Ranysha LeBlanc - Pickler sisters
Boys
Brendan Christian TX double:  
6.87 60m US#1 - 21.65 US#2
SP: New US#1-2: Johnathan Reeves TX 65-1, Matt McKinney TX 63-4.75
Tyler Stanfield TX 4:21.65 mile US#3
Tony Francis TX 7.99p 60H US#1
Jeff Lindsey 6-10 US#4
Girls
Zenobia Reed 7.72 60m US#1
LaTashia Kerr TX 25.37 US#5
Candice Kolb TX 10:21.59 3000m US#2 
Ranysha LeBlanc TX 9.02 60H  US#1
Meggie Schuelke TX 5-8 US#1
Julie Pickler TX 18-2.25 US#4 (LeBlanc 18-1.75 US#6, Diana Pickler 18-0.75 US #8t, Ceci Walker 18-0.75 US#8t)
COMPLETE RESULTS

VA Alan Webb 9:06 3200m; Alonzo Moore 49-3.5
Webb starts indoor campaign at Christopher Newport U. HS Showcase, which also sees: 
Bethel girls, Atlee boys win:
Alan Webb 9:06 3200m US#1
Brian Ford 34.95 300m  US#3
Curtis Parker 2:31 1000m US#2
Jeanne Addison 11:6.26 3200m US#4
Alonzo Moore  49-3.5 TJ, 23-0.75 US#2
Ayanna Jones 42-5.5 US#3
Val Osipenko 14-6 MR
COMPLETE RESULTS

Pennsylvania weekend
Karl Dusen and Sean Duffy tangle in swift 3000, Dusen gets 8:51.8 PR at Haverford.  Dominique Darden triples (55, 200, 400)  at Dickinson. PA weekend by Don Rich

CT Hartford Public Inv 
Glenn McFadden 6.56 and 35.72
Alex Bloom 4:19.15 mile
 (Brian McGovern 4:19.78)
Josh Fournier 23-9 US#2
Chelsea Lenge 5:08.1 mile and 11:07.16 3200m
COMPLETE RESULTS

Colgate Games Week 3 - Evelyn Dwyer PA 4:48.4 US#1; US#1 Stacey Livingston NY 2:12.8 (Evelyn Dwyer 2:15.2 US#2); Tuffany Abney PA 56.54 to beat US#1 Tiondra Ponteen in 400.   Details

Millrose Trials - Fast times at the New York Armory as New York City schools try out for the Millrose Games relays.  Bishop Loughlin boys 7:56.08 US#1; South Shore boys 3:20.86 (Transit Tech 3:21.88); A.P. Randolph girls 3:51.66.   Details

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

New Faces of 2000 - Rankings of  best freshmen of 2000 indoor, outdoor, and cross country seasons give a working directory to the rising stars of US high school track and field.

New Balance National 
Scholastic 
Indoor Championships
March 9-11 NY City
NSIC web page
DyeStat NSIC page

FUMA Invitational
The tiny town of Fork Union VA (pop 468) will increase tenfold January 20 with the running of the 12th Fork Union Military Academy Invitational.  Details

DyeStat
Store
opens
At long last, we have our online store open. Two items are for sale now and more are coming.  

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

  

   

• Running with the Buffaloes, by Chris Lear -- The book is so popular that we have SOLD OUT of our original inventory of the paperback edition.  A new & improved hardcover edition will be published in April.  Pre-publication discounts of $2 are available for books ordered now.  

Running with the Buffaloes
$22

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

College Choices 2001 - list grows to 217 with update as of 1/12.   

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.    

DyeStat Elite 2001 Indoor  

Multiple Leaders:  
Kedar Inico (300-400)
Tiondra Ponteen (400-500)
Stacey Livingston (600-800-1000)

Update includes meet results and email received through noon January 12.

Fifth list of season has  679 performances from 121 meets that beat the 2001 indoor cutoffs for the unique DyeStat Elite top 100 national rankings.

• DyeStat Elite Rankings as of 1/12 
• DyeStat Elite 2001 Indoor Rankings home page
• 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.

Flood of top returnees augur record setting year in 2001 in US high school track and field.   Listings of top 20 returnees in all events, plus best of the best names: Christian - Johnson(s) - Ervin - Sylvester - Ritzenhein - Webb - Hall - Schneider - Lockhart - Walker - Olson - Powell - Thames - McKinney - Behm - Bookout - Henderson - Perkins - Carpenter - Whipple - Joyce - Demus - Hennessy - Bei - Siraki - Barrientos - Craig - Gerraughty - Freberg - Reynolds - Madden - Manuel - Lederman - Shepard - Wecker  

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Hispanic Games - Meet records and new US leaders came in bunches as 6,000 athletes pounded the super-swift oval at the New York Armory. There were 136 DyeStat Elite level performances.  Pictures and results. 

• Tiondra Ponteen wins 400

• NY Armory people

• I-Perfection Harris flies high in LJ, TJ

• Girls Mile - Theresa Fath 4:59.58 MR, US#2

• Boys Mile - Brendan Sullivan outkicks 3 others within 0.70 second

• Boys and Girls 4x400 - Girls 800 - Boys 200

New US#1 performances: 

• Boys
  200: Glenn McFadden, Hillhouse CT 21.51 
  800: Michael Brown, Transit Tech 1:57.36
  3200: Brian  Dalpiaz, Sayville 9:27.87
  4x400: Transit Tech 3:20.69
  4x800: Bishop Loughlin 7:58.42
  LJ: I-Perfection Harris, Poly Prep 23-10

• Girls 
  400: Tiondra Ponteen, Wash. Irving 55.30
  3000: Catha Mullen, Bronxville 10:22.05
  4x800: A. P. Randolph NY 9:17.20

Natasha Roetter runs 4:57.9 mile in dual meet at Reggie Lewis Center in Boston 1/9.  The Lexington MA junior had been flirting with sub-5:00 on the 12-lap track at her home school, and she found the banked 200m ovals at Roxbury more to her liking.  It is the 2nd fastest girls mile of the season.

NY Colgate Womens Games Week 1 - Complete Results
Tiffany Abney PA takes two US#1 spots: 25.34, 56.94;  Talibah Akil NY outleans Jennifer Whitlock in 55
Week 2 Leaders

Pudlin 9:57.6 --
new PA record
In her first race since finishing 8th at the Foot Locker CC finals in Orlando, PA jr Julia Pudlin ran a PA record 9:57.6 for 3000 meters at Lehigh U. Friday 1/5.  She is the first PA girl  under 10 minutes for 3k.  Story on DyeStatPA 

Gowda hits 60'
Vikas Gowda, Frederick MD, improved his US#1 shot put mark to 60-7 at Hagerstown.  The 6-8, 260-lb senior gave up football to concentrate on throwing this year.  He is signed for North Carolina.

Girls PV 
wins in Texas
Texas UIL school superintendents have voted 605-441 to allow girls pole vault as a scoring event in the 2001-2002 school year.  All five divisions supported the change, and David Butler is ecstatic.  

YearEndSpecial in Pennsylvania - by Don Rich

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

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

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