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• DyeStat Elite - national rankings update in time to use as reference for the weekend meets.  Approaching 2,000 performances.  2001 Indoor DyeStat Elite
• Millrose Games - preps share spotlight with Olympians.  Elite boys and girls miles, plus showdown of NYC metro area's best relay teams.  Details
• Colgate Womens Games - second part of big Madison Square Garden weekend for prep track.  The Millrose Games crowd clears out at midnight Friday and the Colgate crowd marches in Saturday morning for the finals of this 6-week series.  Colgate Games page
• New Jersey Meet of Champions - group winners square off at Princeton Sunday.
• Massachusetts Coaches Invitational - at Reggie Lewis
• Arkansas Coaches Invitational - at Fayetteville
• Wolfpack Invitational - at Reno NV
• Wildcat HS Invitational - at Kansas State U.

Latest News

First national indoor championship entries announced

The Metropolitan Athletics Congress of New York has released the first list of top entrants for the 18th New Balance National Scholastic Indoor Championships to be held at the New York Armory March 9-11.  Athletes from the British Commonwealth will go against US elite athletes.

Sanya Richards (60m, 200m)
Zenobia Reed  (60m)
Kyle Farmer  (200m)
Heather Hennessy (800m)
Long Beach Wilson (girls)
Long Beach Poly  (boys and girls)
Jenny Aldridge (mile)
Lynn Dixon (mile)
Nathaniel Banks (400m)
Janice Davis (200m, 400m)
Samantha Shepard (PV)
Molly Lederman (PV)
Karen Freberg (SP)
Ashton and Aaron Collins (200m, 400m)
Megan and Shannon Radermacher (800m)
Aaron Fisher (mile)
Lee McCash  (Great Britain, 2mile)
Malcolm Hassan  (Great Britain,800m, mile)
Nicholas Willis (New Zealand, 800m, mile)
Skyler Green (60m)
Joshua Walker (60mH)
Latoya LeGree (TJ)
Stephenson (boys and girls)
Ahmad Jasmine (60m, 400m)
Katherine Johnston (WT)
Shamekia Lewis (60m, LJ, TJ)
Chris Morgan ( 60m,60mH)
Julia Pudlin (2 mile)
Erik Sproll  (Canada, 800m)
Lauryn Williams  (60m, 200m)

Millrose Games
The venerable Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden Friday night (2/2) offers a chance for high schoolers to perform on the same stage as Olympians.  There are the elite boys and girls miles, plus relay showdowns of the best HS baton teams in the New York  metropolitan area.   In addition, three preps will compete against the elite.  Albany NY sr Dan Olson, who high jumped 7-4 in December, will compete in the men's high jump.  He needs one more inch to tie the all-time indoor HS record set in 1978 by another Olson, Gail Olson, Sycamore IL.   Molly Lederman and Samantha Shepard, Massachusetts Air Time teammates, will compete in women's pole vault with Olympic champion Stacy Dragila.  Lederman last week raised the indoor record for HS girls to 13-1.  
DyeStat will be on-site.

Past Performances from the DyeStat Elite database of the HS Milers

GIRLS MILE  
(Jim Spier, selection chairman)
so RAQUEL BARRIENTOS, San Lorenzo Valley Felton CA
sr SARA BEI, Montgomery, Santa Rosa CA
jr MELISSA DONAIS, jr, Phillips Academy, 
sr ERIN DONOHUE, , Haddonfield, NJ
sr THERESA FATH,, Bellport, NY 
sr CHELSEA LENGE, Conard  CT - 
sr MEGAN O'SHEA, Miller Place, NY
jr JULIA PUDLIN, Baldwin, Bryn Mawr, PA

BOYS MILE 
(Larry Byrne, selection chairman)
sr NICK SCHNEIDER, St. Louis Park, MN
jr BOBBY LOCKHART  Winchester VA
sr DAVID VIDAL, Flathead Kalispell, MT
sr BRIAN BOYETT, Parsippany Hills NJ
sr JUSTIN ROMANIUK, Suffern NY
sr ALEX BLOOM, Guilford CT
sr BRIAN McGOVERN. Fairfield Prep CT 
sr SAID AHMED, Boston English  MA
jr SHANE STROUP, River Hill, Clarksville MD

Ritzenhein runs 8:47.3 
3200 as one-man relay!

MT. PLEASANT MI 1/29/01 -- Rockford MI sr Dathan Ritzenhein showed up at Central Michigan University Monday night prepared to run a fast 3200.  But there was no 3200 race scheduled, and MITS meet managers let Ritz run by himself in the 4x800 relay.   So,  the 2-time 2-mile and cross country national champion won the "race" in 8:47.3, which would be a Michigan state record and the 7th fastest ever by a US high schooler if accepted by the record keepers.

Jeff Hollobaugh, a respected track writer and Michigan HS track webmaster, called it  "one of the wierdest cases I've come across in all the years I've kept statistics."  Here is Jeff's report on the strange evening.  

Here's what they did...if I have this right, apparently Ritzenhein won the relay race outright. He lapped the relay field twice. Final results: Ritz 8:47.3, Brian Smith 9:35.1, and the first relay team 9:55.

Here are his splits (all official): 
33.3, 
32.0, 65.3 
31.7, 1:37.0 
32.3, 2:09.3 
32.2, 2:41.4 
32.2, 3:13.6 
32.2, 3:45.8 
32.8, 4:18.6 1600m 
32.7, 4:51.3 
32.8, 5:24.1 2000m 
33.5, 5:57.6 
33.8, 6:31.4 
33.5, 7:04.9 
34.0, 7:38.9 
34.2, 8:13.1 3000m 
34.2, 8:47.3

He ran the rest of the meet as a workout: 4:27.5, 2:01r, and a missed 400 split.

Normally, I don't hesitate to call something a state record if it is legitimate. But this is one of the weirdest cases I've come across in all the years I've kept statistics. Usually, an individual time would not count in a situation like this because of the pacing help. But Ritzenhein won, and clearly didn't get any advantage from running against a few slow half-milers.

So I'm torn, and have called on the national prep experts from Track & Field News to help come to a ruling on this. It may just have to go into the exhibition category, and that would be a shame.

His 3000 and 3200 times would be state records by significant margins. The 3000 time is the third-fastest ever run in US history, and the 3200 is the seventh-fastest ever run.

 --Jeff Hollobaugh

Colgate Women's Games Semis - 
Stacey Livingston lowers her US#1 mark in the 800 meters to 2:11.2.  Tamecka Johnson 4:44.53 takes US#1 in 1500 meters
21 DyeStat Elite Performances

New Jersey Group Championships - Glenn DiGiorgio takes 3rd on US shot put list with 63-0.75; Erin Donohue runs US#2 10:56.48c 2-mile; Jackie Hudgins takes US#2 with 47-0 shot.  Complete results of all groups.

West Point Invitational - US#4 marks by John Jay E. Fishkill NY boys 10:35.65 DMR  and Kristen Coon NY 4:51.60 1500m.  Complete results

Virginia Tech
Alan Webb misses another record by 0.28 in 3rd fastest 1000 ever

6 US#1 marks and 231 DyeStat Elite performances in best meet of the season:  Webb, Kelley Otstott 2:57.27; Brett Wilson 1:04.48; Tysha Colon 39.38; Nicole Cook 1:14.52; Zanishia Usher 18-7.5

Special to DyeStat by Pearl Watts

BLACKSBURG VA 1/27/01 -- A week after his historic sub-4 mile in New York, South Lakes VA sr Alan Webb tried on the 1000 meter distance for record size at the Microtel Virginia Tech Invitational.  He didn't get the record but he came within 0.28 seconds at 2:24.13, good for 3rd best ever among US high school boys. 

Complete Virginia Tech results and highlights, with listing of all 231 DyeStat Elite national ranking performances

Short Takes

The Engineer Games in Rochester NY had a couple of sparkling marks:  Megan Olds 4:44.2 1500m and Dan Olson 6-10 MR.  . . . Seton Hall-bound Danielle Bailey, Christiana DE sr, tore up the track at the Tower Hill series in Delaware 1/27 with a 7:07 US#2 55 meters, 58.57 400m, and (with 45 minutes rest) a 25.71 200, all  without spikes. . . . At the Montana State Open 1/27, Alicia Craig took #2 on the DyeStat Elite girls mile list with a stellar 4:57.6.  Craig was second to collegian Sabrina Moore, whose 4:49+ qualified her for the NCAA championships. . . .  Sometimes smaller meets get lost in the publicity shuffle.  Unfortunately this happened to the Suffern Invitational at Rockland CC in New York 1/15.  A great girls long jump competition unfolded there with Shenae Dawkins the first girl this season to go over 19 feet at 19-1.5, followed by Nichole Brundage 18-4.5, Shevon Stoddart 17-11.5, and Shauna Lee Williams 17-8.  A belated congrats to these girls.  . . . . . Another smaller meet, The Engineer Games in Rochester NY, had a couple of sparkling marks:  Megan Olds 4:44.2 1500m and Dan Olson 6-10 MR.  . . .  Brockton MA boys 3:22.04 US#4 at Reggie Lewis Sunday 1/28 in McIntyre Relays.

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

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

An Internet interview with Dathan Ritzenhein

Dathan Ritzenhein talks to Jake Klim about his future. Read his expectations for this year (record 2 mile, 5k?), expectations for next year (NCAA title?) Colorado was the "perfect fit" for college. Don't call him the next Pre; he is just the first Ritzenhein.  Dathan Ritzenhein: America's Greatest Hope in Distance Running?

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

  

   

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

DyeStat Elite update has 12 new US leaders - with 3 of them new US Records; total  of 1,414 marks
Jan 26 DyeStat Elite 

Seventh  list of season has  1,414 performances from 186 meets that beat the 2001 indoor cutoffs for the unique DyeStat Elite top 100 national rankings.

• DyeStat Elite Rankings as of 1/26 
• 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.

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Mountain View UT sr Nik Arrhenius takes lead on Gourley's List with weight throw of 71'04.  Kate Johnston RI still leads girls with throw of 55-10.25. Gourley's List 1/25

Short Takes:

Said Ahmed MA took the US lead in 800 meters with a 1:52.87 at the Terrier Classic at Boston U. 1/27.  Ahmed won the second heat of a race that had a stellar first heat:  1. Dan Caulfield, WestchesterPuma/IRE, 1:48.06; 2.Trinity Gray, Nike, 1:48.78; 3.Mark Carroll, Nike/IRE, 1:48.93; 4.Elliott Blount, Una, 1:49.82.

Campbell Co WY sr Alicia Craig opened her indoor campaign with a meet record 5:00.47 1600m in the Camel Invitational at Black Hills State University, Spearfish SD.  Brad Vodicka, Glenrock WY sr, got a MR in shot put at 54-5.75. . . . McKay OR jr Dawn Morgan ran 10:25.46 US#6 3000m on a 150m banked board track at Lane Co Fairgrounds.  

Alan Webb's sub-4

4 new records:

Alan Webb 3:59.86 mile (New Balance Games, NY Armory)
Laura Gerraughty 53-11 shot put (U. of New Hampshire)
Molly Lederman 13-1 pole vault (Brandeis U.)
Jeffrey Garrison 6.72 50m hurdles (LA Invitational)

Alan Webb goes sub-4 - the story by John Dye

• PixPage: Webb's Great Day - the story in 23 pictures
• PixPage: Webb by Victah Sailer
• Webb's pursuit of sub-4:00; what came before
• Webb, Coach Raczko  recount the race to Pearl Watts  - the training and the strategy 
  Webb: "There was no reason not to run for it." 
  Raczko: "It's still not like he's at his strongest point of the year, with more conditioning he should run faster."
• Walt Murphy's account on armorytrack.com
• George Febles's account on armorytrack.com

• US#1 4x200s by Robeson girls, Campus Magnet boys
• Eleanor Roosevelt MD girls 3:51.33 US#4
• South Shore NY boys 3:19.69 US#2
• 57 DyeStat Elite Performances at the New Balance Games

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.    

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.

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  

National HS Invitational - U. of Arkansas' new facility encouraged some great performances, including three new US leaders.  Highlights:
Boys
jr Brendan Christian TX 6.43 US#7 and 21.55 US#2
sr Kendall Pyant MO 48.10 US#2 and 24-4.5 US#1
sr Brandon Hodges AR 1:54.86 US#1
sr Tony Francis TX 7.41 55H US#4
so Tyler Stanfield TX 4:22.48 and 9:53.21 (mile and 2-mile)
Jesuit Dallas TX  3:23.99
sr Austin Landreth OK 15-1 US#4
sr Johnathan Reeves TX 65-2 US#1
Girls
Meoucha Davis TX 7.26 and 24.84 US#2
jr Valerie Lauver TX 5:14.57 and 11:15.54 (mile and 2-mile)
Diana Pickler TX 5-4 and 18-4.25
COMPLETE RESULTS

Webb vs. Ritz at NIC -- NOT!

The possibility of the first HS sub-4 miler in 34 years, Alan Webb, South Lakes VA sr,  moving up to the 2-mile to face Dathan Ritzenhein, Rockford MI sr, at the Nike Indoor Classic was quashed yesterday (1/23).  After talking to Coach Raczko in VA and Coach Prins in MI, NIC recruiter A. J. Holzherr announced that Webb will run the Mile and Ritzenhein the 2-Mile at  the Prince Georges County MD Sportsplex.  

After Webb's historic 3:59.86 mile at the New York Armory Saturday, coach Scott Raczko said Webb might forego the mile at NIC to take another shot at Ritzenhein, who has reigned at the 2-mile and longer, including his second straight Foot Locker Cross Country national title at Disney World in  December over Webb.  Raczko said that Webb is better (at longer distances) than he showed in Orlando.  But at the moment, the head-on collision is not scheduled to occur.  

• LA Invitational - Los Angeles Sports Arena - Ryan Hall runs 4th against older runners in 4:09.46; Angel Perkins wins elite women's 500 yards in 1:06.74; Nick Schneider 4:17.36 in boys seeded mile (David Vidal 4:19.64); Rachel Viau 12-01; Jeffrey Garrison 6.72 for new US record in little run 50m hurdles; Liza Pasciuto 11:09.4 2-mile US#4; Tracee Thomas 18-6.5 US#4t; Candace Bauchman 39-4.75 TJ US#2 (Undine Becker 38-1.75 US#3); Jake Knight 57-9.25 SP; Brian Ruziecki 176-10 DT (Jason Rider 172-11); Karen Freberg 49-9.5 SP MR; Genessa Guzman 137-2 DT
  Complete Results - NEW: DyeStat Elite Performances (54)
• Laura Gerraughty 53-11
• Molly Lederman raised her own pole vault record to 13-1 at Brandeis U.
• Princeton Relays - Princeton NJ - US#1 Boys & Girls NY girls 3:49.61 (William Penn PA 3:49.98); O'Hara PA boys 10:32.33 DMR US#1 (Baldwin PA 10:32.49); Julia Pudlin 4:59.32 mile US#3; Bellport NY 12:13.27 US#1 (with 4:55.3 anchor by Theresa Fath); 73 DyeStat Elite performances.  
• Colgate Women's Games - Brooklyn NY - DyeStat Elite performances in Week 4 - US#1 1500m Evelyn Dwyer lowers her season best to 4:48.1.
• Pole Vault Summit - Reno NV
  • High School - Sage Thames 15-8, Lindsey Bourne 12-4 (Shayla Balentine 12-4, Elizabeth Boyle 12-4)
  • NEW: 52 DyeStat Elite Performances
  • College - Dennis Kholev 18-2.5; Andrea Dutoit 13-5.25 (Tracy O'Hara 13-5.25)
• Panther Indoor Games  - Frankfort KY
• FUMA Invitational - Fork Union VA - NEW:  Complete Result and 41 DyeStat Elite Performances 
  Mike Loyd doubles: 6.55 and 7.60
  Curtis Parker 2:33.64 1000 (2nd to his US#1 2:31)
  Jennifer Nelms triples: 41.74, 1:19.64, 5-4
  Alonzo Moore 48-9.5 TJ (2nd to his US#1 49-3.5)
  Newsberger 43-6 SP
• Yale Invitational - New Haven CT - NEW: 70 DyeStat Elite Performances listed, including 
  Patrice Gaymon 7.22 US#6t
  Michelle Wale 10:13.63 3000 US#2 (11 girls DS Elite)
  Brian Dalpiaz 8:45.77 3000 US#3
  Chelsea Lenge 5:02.51 US#5
  US#1 Dan Olson 6-10
• National HS Invitational - 3 new US leaders at U. of Arkansas.  NEW: 59 DyeStat Elite Performances listed.

Laura Gerraughty 53-11 - new US record!
Nashua NH senior sets new national indoor shot put record at the University of New Hampshire Fieldhouse, Durham NH, Friday night (1/19).  
Her series:  47'7.5" 51'7.5" 52'5.75" 52'1" 50'11" 53'11".  The third throw equalled the old record by Heather Colyer PA in 1997.  Her final throw also tops the all-time outdoor record of 53-7.75 by Natalie Kaaiawahia, Fullerton CA, 1983.    (Pictured at Foot Locker Outdoor championships in Raleigh June 2000)

Ryan Hall 4:09.46 against elite men at LA Invitational

Doug Speck's account on caltrack.com:

1. Bernard Lagat, Puma TC (Kenya) 3:57.61
(Fastest in the world this year)
2. Jason Pyrah, Nike 3:58.20
(Fastest by an American this year)
3. Jonathon Riley, unattached 4:04.30
4. Ryan Hall, Big Bear HS 4:09.46
(Fastest-ever prep time on this track)
5. Ricky Ethridge, unattached 4:17.89
6. Alban Inzunza, Cal Baptist 4:31.03
7. Gabriel Hernandez, Cal Baptist 4:33.39
Clyde Colenso, South Africa, did not finish

RACE IN REVIEW: Colenso was the rabbit and passed the 440 in 59.9, with Lagat (60.1), Pyrah (60.3) and Ethridge (60.4) close. Hall was next at 60.9. At the 880 mark, Colenso still led at 1:58.7, with Lagat (1:58.8), Pyrah (1:59.0), Ethridge (1:59.1) and Hall (2:00.6) following. 
By the 1320, Lagat (2:59.3), Pyrah (2:59.5) and Riley broke away, with Hall (3:04.6) running fifth behind Ethridge. Lagat and Pyran dueled on the penultimate turn with Lagat breaking away and pulling away to win. Hall ran strong, but alone, for fourth.

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