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Boys Mile - Girls Mile - Other Prep - Elite

• MD 4A-3A West Region - Woodlawn boys, Gaithersburg girls - complete results
• J.W. North HS, Riverside CA enters NSIC in New York
• VA Patriot District
  • performance lists
  • Field Event results - NEW: 6 DyeStat Elite performances
• New Jersey All Group Meet of Champions - Erin Donohue blasts US#1 10:38.90 in 3200, less than 48 hours after photo finish 2nd in Millrose Mile - A. Acklin 7.42 upsets US#1 Dwight Ruff in 55H - Brian Boyett doubles - 84 DyeStat Elite performances listed -  Complete Results
• 25th MA Coaches Invitational - Complete Results from Reggie Lewis Center, Boston - Natasha Roetter 4:59.94 mile - NEW: 56 DyeStat Elite Performances
• North Carolina State Meet - N. Mecklenburg sr Stephen Haas ran 4:18.31 to set a new state indoor 1600 record by 7 seconds. 
  MVP: Girls: Ginger Wheeler, W-S Mt. Tabor, Boys: A.J. Davis, N.Durham, 23-1 & 47-1 US#3 & 6-6.  Team Champions:  Girls: Mt. Tabor Winston Salem 40, Boys: Mt. Tabor Winston Salem  58  NEW: 44 DyeStat Elite Performances
• DyeStat Elite - national rankings soar to 1,800 with 11 new US leaders - use as reference for the weekend meets.
• Millrose Games - Photo finishes highlight boys and girls miles, won by Nick Schneider over Bobby Lockhart and Sara Bei over Erin Donohue.  DyeStat On-Site coverage from Madison Square Garden.  39 DyeStat Elite performances.  
• Colgate Womens Games - Finals of 6-week series entertain Madison Square Garden crowd with these highlights: Tiffany Abney PA 57.17; Evelyn Dwyer PA 4:50.78; Takara Wilks NY 7.14; Amber Williams NJ 8.06; Christina Smith PA 25.55; Stacey Ann Livingston NY 2:13.59 .  23 DyeStat Elite Performances
• Utah State Meet - Box Elder boys and Davis girls. Complete Results.  NEW: 15 DyeStat Elite performances
• Alabama State Meet

Millrose Games
Sara Bei and Nick Schneider 
win thrilling miles
NEW YORK 2/2/01 -- The high school miles gave the big Madison Square Garden crowd all they could ask for Friday night in the Millrose Games.  Each race had lead changes, take charge moves, and stunning reversals at the tape.  All the turning on the short Garden oval kept times on the slow side, but the tactics and the finishes were as entertaining as it gets.  
Results, stories, pictures, and interviews
- 39 DyeStat Elite Performances

National indoor championship entries 
Brendan Christian, Brian Sears 
will battle in sprints; J.W. North Riverside CA enters, with Tracee Thomas, Shaunte Howard

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.  

New names added 2/7:

J. W. North girls, Riverside CA - 4x200, 4x400
Tracee Thomas CA - LJ
Shaunte Howard CA - HJ

New names added 2/5:

Brendan Christian TX - 60, 200
Bryan Sears GA - 60, 200
Michael Grant GA - 60, 200 
Talonda Ingram FL -60m
Melissa Donais MA -mile
Chelsea Lenge CT -mile and 2 mile
Robyn Stevens CA - race walk
Colleen Schmidt - race walk
Patrick McGuire OK - mile
Elsik (Alief, Texas) sprint relays
Paula Ogunbanjo TX - TJ. 
Candace Baucham TX - TJ 
Ozzie Pina CA -2 mile

Announced earlier:

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

The Nike Indoor Classic has not released a list of entries.

Utah State Meet
Box Elder boys 100 and Davis girls 116 swept the team titles at the USTCA indoor championships at Utah State 2/3.   Mountain View's Nik Arrhenius doubled in the throws with 61-9.5 SR shot put and 70-8 in 25-lb weight throw.   Younger brother Leif tossed the weight 55'01", believed to be a national record for ninth grade athletes.   Alta's Amy Menlove doubled in 7.45 and  18-1, 3rd best LJ ever indoors in Utah.  Jackie Zeigle 5:09. Heidi Bouwhuis 11:20.2. NEW: 15 DyeStat Elite Performances - Complete Results

DyeStat Elite national rankings soar to 1,800 with 11 new US leaders - Feb2 DyeStat Elite 

This is the 8th list of the 2001 indoor season, and it has the biggest increase in numbers this season, sparked by the 231 DyeStat Elite marks at the Virginia Tech Invitational.  We now have 2,500 DyeStat Elite marks in the database for the 2001 indoor season, with 1,800 of these in the listings.  (Only an athlete's best mark is listed.)   

There are 11 new national leaders this week:   

B-500: Brett Wilson NC 1:04.48 @ Virginia Tech
B-800: Said Ahmed MA 1:52.87 @ Terrier Classic
B-1000: Alan Webb VA 2:24.13 @ Virginia Tech
B-2Mile: Dathan Ritzenhein MI 8:50.7c @ CMU
B-55H: Jerod Void MD 7.22 at PG Co (tied with Dwight Ruff NJ)

G-300: Tysha Colon DC 39.38 @ Virginia Tech
G-500: Nicole Cook VA 1:14.52 @ Virginia Tech
G-800: Stacey Livingston NY 2:11.2 @ Colgate
G-1000: Kelley Otstott VA 2:57.27 @ Virginia Tech
G-1500: Megan Olds NY 4:44.2 @ Engineer Games
G-LJ: Shenae Dawkins NY 19-1.5 @ Suffern Inv

• DyeStat Elite Rankings as of 2/2
• 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.

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• 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.  We are offering a pre-publication discount of $2 for books ordered now.  

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Short Takes

Winchester-Thurston Pittsburgh sr Cassandra Richards unleashed the nation's best long jump of the season at Slippery Rock PA Friday 2/2 -- 19-6.  At the same meet, PA's girl pole vaulters invaded the DyeStat Elite rankings:  Emily Tharpe 12-6 US#3, Jocelyn Lindsay 11-6, and Kim Styuvesent 11-0.  The PA Weekend by Don Rich

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

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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.  . . . . . .  Brockton MA boys 3:22.04 US#4 at Reggie Lewis Sunday 1/28 in McIntyre Relays.

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

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  

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

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

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

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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