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National Indoor Previews - coming Friday
NSIC Entries - 1,270 entries for New York meet
NIC Entries  Boys - Girls - 1200+ entries for MD meet updated 3/8
DyeStat Elite - update of national rankings coming Friday in time for reference for both meets.  

Weightorama - A day after winning the New England Championship shot put with a record 53-2.75, Laura Gerraughty NH won the Weightorama 2001 at Providence RI with a throw of 56-9.5 to take the US#1 spot in Bob Gourley's 3/5 weight throw list for the 2001 indoor season.   Kristen Michalski RI 56-1.25 also moved ahead of former US leader Kate Johnston.  The boys competition also produced a new US#1 as John-Paul Smolenski NY threw 73-11.5 to move ahead of former US leader Nik Arrhenius UT.   

PA State Meet
Ernie Terrell 21.50 SR and 47.88 carries Norristown to boys title with only 34 points; Sheena Gordon's 4-gold performance (8.84 60H, 18-10, 5-6, and 40-10 TJ US#1) gets her girls MVP crown, but William Penn beats her McDevitt team, 67-58.   
Complete Results
NEW: 248 DyeStat Elite Performances listed - 
2nd most by any state meet this season (Virginia 314 in AAA and AA combined)

Alan Webb gets 1000 meter record - 2:23.68 - winning by nearly 10 seconds.   Running in the Virginia AAA State Meet, Webb moved up from 3rd all time on the 1000 meter indoor list (2:24.13 at Virginia Tech last month) to #1.  The South Lakes Reston VA senior, who set the indoor mile record with his sub-4 run in New York, broke the indoor 1000 meter mark set in 1987 by George Kersh, Pearl MS, 2:23.86.   Webb's 1000 meter record came about an hour after he set a Virginia state record of 4:12.11 in the 1600 meters.  

Although a strong field was supposed to set up Webb for a record try in the 1000, he ran off from the beginning and when he finished there was a gap of nearly 10 seconds to the rest of the state's best.   Splits by Pearl Watts:   27.5 seconds for the first 200 meters; 57 seconds at 400 meters; 1:11 at the 500 meter halfway mark; 1:25.5 for 600 meters and 1:55.15 (F.A.T.) at 800 meters.  

Topping off his day, Webb ran a 50.6 split in the 4x400 relay to help his South Lakes team to a second place finish behind boys team champion Lake Braddock.
  Complete Virginia AAA state meet coverage, including Pearl Watts' report and 246 DyeStat Elite performances listed

Arkansas State Meet
Class 5A Pine Bluff boys, Bryant girls, Robin Rahat 11-6.  Complete 5A Results
Class 4A Hot Springs boys dominate - 157 points and 5 of 13 new state recordS.  
Complete 4A Results
Class 123A Heber Springs sweeps
Complete 123A Results

Georgia HS Invitational
Prelim for the USATF national  championships at the Georgia Dome.
Stephanie Smith 55.44.   Joe Thorne 4:13.34.  Joshua A. Walker fastest 60H time in the nation, 7.90 in the preliminaries. Briene Simmons  2:19.57, Clark Payne 1:56.32, DeHashia Trotter 24.97.  Complete Results and story by Steve Underwood - NEW: 86 DyeStat Elite Performances listed

VA AA State Meet
Appomatox County boys - Jefferson Forest girls - 18 new state meet records set, two by  Bobby Lockhart: 4:15.57  & 9:10.97.  Complete Results and Story by MileStat + NEW: 68 DyeStat Elite performances listed

65th Eastern States 
Championships
rock the NY Armory
Deepest quality meet of the season
317 DyeStat Elite performances
7  US leading marks 
Complete Results -
 NEW: 8 great photos by Anthony Jones 

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)

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. 

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Short Takes

Sara Bei picks Stanford -- The Montgomery Santa Rosa CA star announced this week that she has made a verbal commitment to the Palo Alto power, joining fellow senior Alicia Craig, Campbell County WY.  Another of this year's senior distance stars, Anita Siraki, Glendale CA, is also said to be considering Stanford.

Long Beach Wilson CA's stellar girls team has withdrawn from the Nike Indoor Classic and will instead run in New York at the New Balance National Scholastic Indoor Championship, according to a NIC press release.

Alicia Craig, Campbell Co WY sr, ran a 4:54.0 1600 meters at the Spearfish Indoor Invitational in Spearfish, SD Saturday 3/3 on an unbanked 200m Mondo surface at Black Hills State University at about 3500ft. elevation.   With a 1.6 second handheld adjustment to 4:55.6 for a mile, that places Craig #2 on the DyeStat Elite national rankings. 

Karen Freberg of California threw the shot 53' in an outdoor meet recently, joining indoor record holder Laura Gerraughty of New Hampshire (53-11) in that rarified zone (before this year, only 8 girls had ever thrown 53', six indoor and two outdoor).  A showdown at the national indoor championships this week would be epic.  But it won't happen -- Freberg is going to NSIC in New York and Gerraughty is going to NIC in Maryland.  Another casualty of the split national indoor championship scene.

Good news and bad news from the Illinois High School Association:  
Girls pole vault will be allowed to begin as an official event.
Maria Cicero of York Elmhurst, leading 3200 meter in Illinois, will not be allowed to compete at the national indoor championships.  New rules prohibit competing in a national meet if your team is in season, and York's track season has already begun.  (Illinois does not separate indoor and outdoor into two seasons.) 

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

New England Championships - packed crowd at Reggie Lewis Center, Boston, Friday night cheers spectacular performances by Said Ahmed and Laura Gerraughty.  DyeStat on-site coverage.  20 action photos added to results pages, plus listings of 157 DyeStat Elite performances.
 - NEW: Donna on the Side at New England

 DyeStat Elite rankings 3/2

9 new US#1s in 12th week; 
database hits 5,235 performances

The 12th rankings of the 2001 indoor season come from a database of 5,235 performances meeting DyeStat Elite cutoffs in 413 meets.  There are 3,202 ranked performances (only the best mark for an athlete is ranked). 

DyeStat Elite Rankings as of 3/2

• DyeStat Elite 2001 Indoor Rankings home page
• How to Get Ranked - procedures for submitting performances that are not in meets already posted on DyeStat.

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. 

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.

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 ) 

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.

Ritz chooses Ireland 
over Maryland

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.

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.

OH Clinton Massie
2nd annual All Comers meet at OSU
Tianna Madison 7.31 55D
Jason Hodges 7.61 55H
Complete Results

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

Gems of 2001

• 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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