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• DyeStat Elite update - performances keep pouring in.   
• New England Championships - Reggie Lewis Center, Boston - DyeStat on-site (John and Donna Dye)
• Georgia HS Invitational - Atlanta - DyeStat on-site (Steve Underwood)
• Pennsylvania State Meet - Penn State - DyeStatPA on-site (Don Rich)
• Virginia AAA  - George Mason U. - DyeStat on-site (Derek Dye)
• Arkansas State Meet - Fayetteville - special reports
• College Choices 2001  update - the latest decisions
• Featured Outdoor Meets - special pages on leading meets

Photo Stories 
from 23rd Simplot Games
DyeStat's pick of 100+ images during 3 action-packed days 
at Holt Arena, Idaho State U., Pocatello Idaho, 
plus: Donna on the Side at Simplot, 
the human side of the big meet as seen by Donna Dye

• United Stars vs. Teekay Track Club - The superstar girls of United Stars (Pennsylvania) and Teekay Track Club (Wilson Long Beach CA - coached by "TK" Terry Kennedy) had terrific battles all through the meet, climaxing with the relays late Saturday.  The result was the same both times:  Teekay had the lead after Lashinda Demus ran the second leg , but United Stars rode to victory on the anchor legs of the coach's daughter, Tiffany Abney.  
  • Part 1 - 4x200
  • Part 2 - 4x400 
• Donna on the Side at Simplot - the human side of the big meet by Donna Dye.
• Lashinda Demus' record 53.38 - Wilson Long Beach CA star routs four United Stars in girls 400 meters.  
• Alexis Joyce doubles - after winning the 60 meter dash an hour earlier, the Colorado senior star is a close, but convincing winner over Allyson Felix CA, 24.44 to 24.49, in the girls 200 meters. 
• Smooth cruise to record for Seth Pilkington - Roy UT senior breaks on top and never looks back in boys 1600 meters in 4:14.88 MR.
• All-Utah photo finish in girls 1600 meters - Salt Lake City sr Lida Clapier catches Bingham jr Jackie Zeigle in the stretch and wins by 0.07.
• East beats West and Canada - Evelyn Dwyer PA and Selena Sappleton NY outkick a gang of westerners and Canadians in the girls 800 meters.
• Beau Walker CO wins 60H -- Twice! - Girls 60 meter hurdles was re-run because one set of hurdles was on the boys mark, so Beau Walker just went out and won it again.   It was a photo finish, as expected with the 6 finalists all ranking in the US top 10.
• James Hatch CO wins decisively in 1:53.16 boys 800 meters 
• Lisa Gibbs is 17-second winner in girls 3200 meters.
• New season, same winning form - Sr Chandler Goodwin, ace of Mountain View UT's national champion cross country team, was a patient winner in the boys 3200 meters, waiting until the last 200 meters to make his winning move.  
• Two races in one in boys 400 meters - In all-Colorado duel, Gerren Crochet wins first half and Travis Anderson the second. 

65th Eastern States 
Championships
rock the NY Armory
Deepest quality meet of the season
317 DyeStat Elite performances
7  US leading marks 
Complete Results

Highlights

BOYS
Campus Magnet 1:28.05 US#1, Plainfield NJ 1:28.62p US#2 - 6 of top 9 US times this season - after Plainfield tied Campus Magnet's US#1 time in the prelims, Campus came back to win the final in even better time - Lakewood 1:30.01 US#4, Buena 1:30.06p US#5, Simon Gratz 1:30.35 US#6, Vineland 1:30.89p US#9.
Camden 3:15.78 US#1, knocking nearly 2 seconds off their own prior US best 4x400 - Buena 3:21.70 US#7
Christian Brothers Academy 10:16.07 US#1 (Cherokee 10:16.32 US#2)
South Shore 7:56.64 US#2 - 4 of top 7 times in US this season - (John Jay 7:58.35 US#3, Bishop Ford 7:58.92 US#5, John Glenn 7:59.16 US#7)
Maxwell Booker 6.32 55D US#2 (beating US#1 Jamar Erwin by 0.02)
Ernie Terrell 21.94 US#6
Kedar Inico 47.69 (just 0.02 off his US#1 time)
Corey Thomas 1:53.78 US#4 (Tim Walker 1:54.15 US#5, Marvin Lewis 1:54.80 US#6)
Anthony Acklin 7.29 US#2 (Chris Stephens 7.36 US#4t, Dwight Ruff 7.41)

GIRLS
Tiondra Ponteen 24.19 US#1 (Shana Cox & Shevonne Stoddart both 24.42 US#4) - Ponteen is now top 3 US in four events from 200 to 500 meters.
Erin Donohue 4:54.73 US#1 (wins by 17 seconds)
Nicole Boykin 11:07.33 US#9 (she is US#6 on earlier 11:04.36)
Amber Williams 8.03 55H US#1 (ties her own US#1 time earlier)
Kasia Williams 8.06 US#2 (improving her own US#2 time earlier)
Boys & Girls girls 9:13.96 US#1 (Bellport NY 9:20.22 US#3)
Boys & Girls girls 12:00.07 DMR US#2 (Red Bank NJ 12:00.66 US#3)
Chinela Davis 19-4.5 LJ US#2
Jackie Hudgins 46-9 SP (just behind her US#2 mark)

NIC Entries Announced
Managers of the Nike Indoor Classic at Landover MD March 10-11 announce leading entries from 2 to 6 deep per event.  
NIC Leading Entries

VA State Meet AAA
Fri-Sat Mar 2-3 at George Mason U., VA
Alan Webb top seeded in 1600 and 1000m.
Seeds & performance lists

A spokesman for the Nike Indoor Classic announced that Dathan Ritzenhein has withdrawn from the meet to concentrate on training for the World Cross Country Championships in Ireland March 24-25.  The Rockford MI senior qualified for the US junior men's team at the US Winter XC Nationals Feb 17, but suffered his first cross country loss in 2 years (to U. Wisconsin freshman Matt Tegenkamp by 2 seconds).

Ritzenhein and his coach decided that training for both indoor track and cross country might undermine his chances in Ireland.  

The NIC spokesman also said that sub-4 miler Alan Webb would run the 2 mile race at NIC instead of the mile.  Webb will also run on his South Lakes Reston VA distance medley team.   NIC will be held March 10-11 at the Prince George's County Sportsplex, Landover MD.

Roth's RaceWalk
Race walkers have often chided DyeStat for ignoring them in the DyeStat Elite rankings.  We challenged them to do for race walk what Bob Gourley has done for hammer and weight throwing.  Michael Roth accepted the challenge and is compiling national high school race walk rankings.  DyeStat will publish weekly Roth's weekly race walk rankings.  Check out Roth's RaceWalk now. 

New England 
Championships
Complete Performance Lists for big meet at Reggie Lewis Center, Boston, Friday 3/2 at 6 pm.

Natasha Hastings beats a Marion  Jones record! - the precocious freshman from  New York City ran 200 meters in 24.38 at the MAC Youth Invitational Sunday 2/25 at the NY Armory, setting a new US record for a freshman girl.  The old record holder?  Marion Jones 24.40!  Hastings had to run down her  A.P. Randolph NY teammate Desiree Moorer, who hung on for second in 24.66.   They were the US#2 and #7 fastest 200 meters run this season.  Before her record setting 200, Hastings won the 55 in 7.12 US#9 in her only try at that distance this year.

Gourley's List
Nik Arrhenius UT 71-8 and Kate Johnston RI 55-10.25 continue to lead the national weight throw rankings as of February 25.  
Gourley's List 2/25

VA Central Region
Petersburg boys edge Atlee, 88-83, led by 5-gold senior Jerome Mathis, who wins 55D in 6.38, the 300 in 36.27, and sweeps the jumps at 6-4,  23-6.25 and 45-6.25. (VA allows up to 3 running events and unlimited field events)
Kevin Watson 7.49 55H
Val Osipenko 14-0 PV
Kwadena Caple 7.24 55m & 41.97
US#1 Nicole Cook wins 500 in 1:17.65
Jeannie Addison 5:19.04 & 11:38.97
Kellie Wells 8.14 55H US#6 and 17:11.25
Ayanna Jones 43-4 SP
Complete Results, highlights and 32 DyeStat Elite Performances

KY Mason Dixon Games
Henderson Co boys, Ballard girls win AAA titles.  Tyson Gay 6.37 US#3 catches Ben Kittleson 6.42.  Bobby Curtis 4:02.3 1500 SR US#2. Alli Sauer gets distance double.
Complete Results and Highlights

VA Northern Region
Lake Braddock romps to team titles - Frank Francois 1:03.74 US#1 - Alexandra VanHeuven triple - Teddy Presley 6-7 & 44-6.5 - Alan Webb sits on district qualifying times - Kelly Otstott 2:52.41 US#2
Complete Results and 68 DyeStat Elite Performances

MA MIAA State Meet
Brockton boys 44 - Hopkinton girls 26 - Said Ahmed 2:25.61 US#2 2001, US#6 all time - Josh Palazola 4:14.85 US#4 - Julia Hincman 5:03.40 Mile (Natasha Roetter 5:04.06)
Complete Results and 103 DyeStat Elite Performances

PA Meet of Champions
Girls: US#1 Julia Pudlin returns from 3-week injury layoff with 10:10.18 3k - Jackie Kelly 7.55 60m US#3 - Villa Maria 12:24.54 DMR US#3 - Wm Penn girls 1:43.06 & 3:56.2 - St. Hubert's girls 9:34.22 US#5 (Wm. Penn 9:38.69)
Boys: North Penn 10:32.86 DMR US#6, Terrance Day 23-5.5 US#8 (Alfonso Johnson 23-4.75), Adrian Findlay 1:56.32 US#6 (Steve Craig 1:56.58 US#7), Ron Cook 46-5.5 (Travis Wells 46-3.5)
Results & 101 DyeStat Elite performances

CT Connecticut Open
Danbury boys - East Lyme girls - big doubles by McFadden, Laboy, McGovern, Schorr, and Lenge - Fournier 24-1 US#3 - Lenge 11:01.92c MR US#5
Complete Results and 53 DyeStat Elite performances

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National Indoor Championship Entries
NSIC - NIC
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Short Takes

Outdoor season is already starting in Texas and Florida, and Rod Koborsi TX  showed mid-season form at The Woodlands TX Invitational with a time of 8:57.9 for 3200 meters.  

Matt Cushman, Hilton NY sr, broke a 22-year old NY Section V record when he high jumped 6-10.25 US#3 in the Rochester city league 2/17.  

Bobby Lockhart VA weaved through lapped runners to run a 9:10.6 3200 Wednesday 2/21 in a Virginia AA regional at Fork Union VA. Lockhart's 1600 splits were 4:32 and 4:38 and he clicked off 70 second splits for the last three 400 meters. Among the lapped victims were Josiah Cadle and Daniel Kane.

David Bazzoni IN became the 2nd 16' pole vaulter of the season at U. Michigan, Ann Arbor 2/17. He went through 15-0, 15-6, and 16-0 without a miss.

Sheena Gordon PA took US#1 spot in DyeStat Elite HJ rankings with a 5-11 leap in a four gold performance at Slippery Rock 2/16. She added marks of 39-6 US#2, 18-11, and 8.29 55H.

Nic Willis of New Zealand, who will come to New York for the NSIC, set a new NZ under 18 record for 800 meters of 1:48.98. Willis beat former record holder Jason Stewart, a World Junior finalist last year, with a devastating kick.

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

Samantha Shepard 
reclaims PV record

At the MAC Youth Invitational in the New York Armory Sunday 2/25, the Massachusetts junior cleared 13-1.5 on her third attempt to take the US girls indoor pole vault record back from teammate Molly Lederman of Jeff Robbins Air Time pole vault club.  Shepard and Lederman have each held the record four times in the last three years: 
 (Photo by Abby Robbins)

1998/Feb - Shepard [12' 6"] at the Millrose Games as 8th grader
1999/Mar - Shepard [12' 7 1/2"] at NSIC - 9th grade.
2000/Jan - Lederman [12' 8"] at Brandeis Inv. - 10th grade.
2000/Feb - Lederman [12' 9 1/2"] at Valentine's Inv. at BU - 10th grade
2000/Mar - Shepard [13' 1/4"] at USATF Indoor Nationals - 10th grade
2000/Dec - Lederman [13' 1/2"] at Brown Univ-USATF Dev Meet- 11th
2001/Jan - Lederman [13' 1"] at Brandeis Invitational - 11th grade
2001/ Feb - Shepard [13' 1 1/2"] at MAC Youth Inv., Armory - 11th gr
( table from www.armorytrack.com ) 

DyeStat Elite national rankings 2/23

Preps stampede lists in week 11 
with 12 new leaders 
and 700 new performances

The 12 new US#1 marks this week and one very near miss:   

B-60: Kevin Jones PA 6.84 (Tyson Gay KY 6.86)
B-PV: David Bazzoni IN joined Tommy Skipper OR at 16'0"
B-4x200: Campus Magnet NY 1:28.62 reclaimed the lead from Plainfield NJ

G-55: Danielle Bailey DE 7.01 came within 0.01 of leader Janice Davis MS
G-60: Alexis Joyce CO 7.47 defending her US#1 at Simplot, with Tissili Rogers GA 7.50 nipping at her heels from the U-Ky Invitational. 
G-200: Stephanie Smith GA 24.21, taking the lead away from Lashinda Demus. Simplot finalists Joyce, Felix, Boling, take 3-4-5 positions.
G-300: Tiondra Ponteen NY 38.41
G-400: Lashinda Demus CA 53.38 at Simplot for new US indoor record, with Simplot runner-up Tifany Abney PA 55.13 also the season rankings #2.
G-600: Stacey Livingston NY 1:30.65, improving on her own US#1
G-1500: Theresa Fath NY 4:39.9
G-2Mile: Maria Cicero IL 10:41.2 chimes in from the Midwest.
G-HJ: Sheena Gordon PA 5-11, best of versatile Quaker State star's virtuoso performances of late.
G-4x400: Wilson Long Beach CA 3:45.66 - second to United Stars at Simplot, but the best one-school team in the race. Boys & Girls NY 3:48.23 also moved ahead of former US#1 William Penn.

DyeStat Elite Rankings as of 2/23

• 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.

Demus, Joyce, Walker, United Stars,
Arrhenius shine brightest in Pocatello

SIMPLOT GAMES -- Lashinda Demus 53.38 for new US indoor 400 meter record, but United Stars of Philadelphia gang up on Demus in 4x200 and 4x400 relays anchored by Tiffany Abney; Alexis Joyce gets 60-200 double; Beau Walker wins star-studded 60H, Seth Pilkington gets MR in 1600, Nik Arrhenius doubles in throws, including US#1 71-8 WT.

• Simplot Games Results and Photos - Complete results - 118 DyeStat Elite performances are ranked - Splits have been added - Dozens more pictures are coming soon.
• Lashinda Demus' record 400 - picture story

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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.

Ritzenhein upset at
Winter XC Nationals

Photo by Erik Palmer, Trackwire
Tegenkamp beats Ritzenhein; Zeigle wins women's juniors
At Vancouver WA, U. Wisconsin freshman Matt Tegenkamp, who had never beaten Dathan Ritzenhein before, did it Sunday 2/18 in the USATF Cross Country Winter Nationals. Ritz was missing his famous kick and had no answer for Tegenkamp's last surge in a 2-man finish.

Details, pictures, and reports by Adam Hall and Oregon Preps are on Winter XC Nationals page
Quotes and strategy from all the top men.

Oakton VA sr Matthew Maline was a surprise 6th to also make the US team for the World Cross Country championships in Ireland next month.

Bingham UT jr Laura Zeigle won the women's junior 6k race in 21:18.40, 12 seconds better than Stanford freshman Victoria Chang. Three high school girls were in the top 6 to qualify for the US team.

Jr Men's 8k
1. Matt Tegenkamp, fr U. Wisconsin 24:09.0
2. Dathan Ritzenhein, sr Rockford MI 24:11.1
3. Ian Dobson (Fr., Stanford) 24:29.0
4. Josh Spiker (Fr., Wisconsin) 24:43.6
5. Fernando Cabada (Fr., Arkansas) 24:47.2
6. Matthew Maline (Sr., Oakton, Va. HS) 25:03.1
Jr Women 6k
1. Laura Zeigle 21:18.40
2. Victoria Chang 21:30.30
3. Alicia Craig 21:46.60
4. Alisha Williams 21:54.60
5. Emily Blakeslee 21:55.50
6. Michelle de la Vina 22:23.50
7. Felicia Guliford 22:41.60
8. Shawn Kelley 22:43.80
9. Lisa Cappello 22:44.0
10. Nora Colligan 22:56.50

Maryland State Meet
Seeds - Complete Results
Photos of Shane Stroup and Randy Buzzell, 4-gold performers.
  121 Dyestat Elite Performances

New York City Champs
CHSAA
Mt. St. Michael boys, Holy Trinity girls win.; Shana Cox 38.93 US#2 and US Catholic record
49 DyeStat Elite performances
PSAL
5 New York State records.
Armorytrack.Com calls it "maybe one of the best HS League Meets ever!"
Campus Magnet sets 800 relay record of 1:28.62, South Shore topples 1,600m relay standard with 3:18.22 trip, Washington Irving's Tiandra Ponteen claims 300m mark at :38.41, Boys and Girls knocks down 1,600m relay record with 3:48.23 clocking and Stacey Ann Livingston continues amazing season with 600m state record of 1:30.65!
58 DyeStat Elite Performances

Kentucky Invitational
Matt Campbell 15-9.5
Tyson Gay 6.86 60m US#1 and 21.76
Joe Thorne 4:19.89 Mile
Charlie Koeppen 9:23.07 2Mile
Kelly Bowman 5-8 (T. Colvin 5-8)
Nicole Kindrick 43-0 SP
Lindsay Bond 8.76 60H
Tissilli Rogers 7.50 60m US#2
Stephanie Smith 24.21 US#1 & 56.03
Complete Results with 94 DyeStat Elite Performances Ranked

Massachusetts Class Champs
Complete Results and 104 DyeStat Elite Performances
MIAA State Meet Seeds
Natasha Roetter 4:59.88 Mile

Connecticut Class Champs
Complete Results and 40 DyeStat Elite performances
State Meet Seeds

Pennsylvania weekend
PA Track Classic results
William Penn girls - 3:54.83 & 1:43.58.
Latir Foster 6.94 60m US#3
Ernie Terrell 48.38 US # 3
Terrance Day 22.17 US #6
70 DyeStat Elite performances

AR ATCA Track Classic
49 schools at Fayetteville
Results
Hot Springs wins 7 events
Antwon Hicks double: 7-1 & 7.59 55H.
Brandon Hodges 1:53.43 US#2.
Tyler 15-6
Brandy Pyler and Rahat both 11-0
  21 DyeStat Elite performances

VA Eastern Region
Results - 62 DyeStat elite performances
Ara Towns 7.05 US#3
Zanishia Usher 18-7 (5 girls over 18')
Lindsay Neuberger 45-5.5
Chris Clifton 22-9
Alonzo Moore 48-11.5
Quentin Matthews 6-10
Gemayel Hazard 7.43
Johnny Creecy 1:07.11

VA Northwest Region
Results and 23 DyeStat Elite Performances ranked - 
Keosha Sanders 7.14 and 8.16
Roger Brown 6.50
B. J. Hancock 7.36

Louisiana State Meet
Complete Results and 59 DyeStat Elite Performances
Shamekia Louis 7.15
Ahmad Jasmine 6.37 (Jerald Watson 6.38, Skyler Green 6.41)
Ashton Collins 48.15

Delaware State Meet
Complete Results and 18 DyeStat Elite Performances
Boys:
William Penn 64
Akeem Pierce 6.55
Dover HS 1:31.51
Carlton Rose 55-2.25 SP
Girls:
Glasgow 64 (Brandywine 63)
Kamilah Salaam 8.48 55H & 24.96 US#6 (Bailey 25.11)
Danielle Bailey 7.01 US#2, 56.51
Colleen Taylor 5:04.06 1600m

Rhode Island State Meet
Complete Results and 17 DyeStat Elite Performances ranked

Maine State Meet
Complete Results 21 DyeStat Elite Performances
S. Portland boys, Waterville girls win class A

Gems of the Season

• Simplot Games - Lashinda Demus 53.38 USR at 400 meters is just one of many great moments in a classy meet at Pocatello ID
• Millrose Games - Nick Schneider, Sara Bei win photo finish miles in Madison Square Garden
• Alan Webb's sub-4 mile stops the New Balance Games at the New York Armory

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