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THE LATEST STUFF - DYESTAT ELITE - GEMS OF 2001
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This weekend .  .  . . We catch our breath before outdoor heats up.  But we aren't idle.  We will bring you updated DyeStat Elite rankings with 900+ national indoor meet marks included, the New York State Meet results, cutoffs for DyeStat Elite outdoor lists, and information on upcoming outdoor meets.  Entry deadlines are already fast approaching.

DyeStat Elite rankings update 3/16

23 new US leaders in week 14; doubles by Angel Perkins, Bernard Christian, Wilson Long Beach

2001 indoor DyeStat Elite as of 3/16

The national indoor championship meets brought out the best in the nation's prep athletes as they rang up new US#1 marks in 23 events, including five new national records set at the New Balance Scholastic Indoor Championships in New York.

Double US#1 rankings were achieved by:

• Cerritos Gahr CA jr Angel Perkins, whose sensational Sunday in New York produced two new national records in 90 minutes: 23.59 and 53.25
• Reagan Austin TX jr Brendan Christian, who followed up his 6.70 victory in the NSIC 60 meter dash with a national record 21.02 in the 200, needing every bit of it to beat Glenn McFadden CT 21.05.
• Wilson Long Beach CA girls, who won three out of four relay events entered at NSIC.  All three wins hit the all time top 10  lists, including a national record 3:53.17 sprint medley time that is also faster than the outdoor record (3:54.39 William Penn PA 1997).   Wilson's 3:43.70 was the third fastest 4x400 ever indoors and gives Wilson the top 6 times on the all time indoor list.   Their 1:38.50 win in the 4x200 was the 7th fastest ever, with three of the faster times including the record (1:36.55) also belonging to the Long Beach school.   

More than 900 performances were added to the DyeStat Elite database from the two indoor championships last weekend.  This increased the database to more than 7,000 performances in the 14th week of the 2001 indoor season, with 3,900 performances ranked (only the best mark for an athlete is ranked).  

2001 indoor DyeStat Elite as of 3/16

The DyeStat Elite database includes all performances received that beat the 2001 indoor cutoffs for top 100 national rankings.

To get performances included in the DyeStat Elite follow the procedures on the DyeStat web page, How to Get Ranked.

• DyeStat Elite 2001 Indoor cutoffs
• How to Get Ranked

NSIC vs. NIC
battle of the national indoor "championships"

by John Dye

The DyeStat Question of the Week shows that 83 percent of our users (which totaled more than 200,000 uniques in February) prefer that there be one national indoor championship for high school track and field.  But for the third straight year there were two "championships" -- the 18th New Balance National Scholastic Indoor Championship in New York and the 3rd Nike Indoor Classic.  There was fierce competition between the two meets for athletes.  Pre-meet publicity from the NIC promoters (who split with NSIC 3 years ago and started the new meet) claimed that three fourths of the top athletes were going to Maryland.  Our analysis of performances shows that talent was more evenly split -- depriving the athletes once again of a true national championship medal.  

• Performances at the two meets compared - Which meet had the best performances?  Which events suffered most from the split championships?

• Combined 965 DyeStat Elite performances ranked

• 506 DyeStat Elite performances at NSIC - New York

• 459 DyeStat Elite performances at NIC - Maryland

More national indoor meet coverage:

• NIC Distance Races - Jake Klim's text and Conrad Haber's pictures tell vivid stories of the 800, mile, DMR, and 2-mile races in MD.

• Allen Webb rouses the crowd again - Pearl Watts reports on Virginia perspective, which for the 2-mile was the same as the national perspective.

• Photo stories of the 5 new national records at NSIC 
  including Angel Perkins' double record day (200 is below left) and the epic  Christian-McFadden duel in the boys 200 (below right), which veteran observer Walt Murphy called one of the great races he has ever seen.

2 National Records by 
Angel Perkins in one day!
5 overall in the NSIC meet

NIC Day 2 - Maryland
Endurance Comes in Many Forms as shown by Alan Webb, Erica Whipple, Sheena Gordon
Endurance is a quality normally associated in track and field with distance runners. But it was clear in Sunday during the second day of Nike Indoor in Landover, MD that the milers and two-milers didn't have the corner on that attribute.
NIC Day 2 by steveu, including Webb's 8:45.19 2-mile, 3rd fastest ever indoors

Alan Webb - photo by Conrad Haber

Erin Donohue wins NIC mile over Alicia Craig with surge in last 200 meters, reversing the 2000 outdoor championship result.  

photo by Conrad Haber

NIC Day 1 - Maryland
Atlantic boys beat South Lakes and Webb in 2nd fastest DMR ever; Rockford Girls double; 
Sage Thames 17-0
High school track and field's distance kings, queens and upstarts took most of the spotlight during Day One of the Nike Indoor Meet in Landover, MD Saturday, but it was a field-event star who provided the final highlight at the Prince George's Sportsplex.
NIC Day 1 by steveu

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Upcoming 
Outdoor Meet Information

4/7 Capital Beltway Classic - at new Prince George's County Sportsplex, Landover MD - Entries due 3/26.

Short Takes

Ryan Hall ready for record try?  The talk out West is that Ryan Hall has been looking terrific in workouts and may shoot for the high school 2-mile record (8:36.3, Jeff Nelson, 1979) on March 24 at the Adidas Meet of Champions at Azusa-Pacific college.  Also heard from SoCal scribe Rich Gonzales is that Ryan's college choice has been narrowed to Stanford and Cal Baptist, with Stanford coach Vin Lanana recently making his pitch in an all-day visit to the Hall home.

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.

NSIC Sunday highlights - New York

Boys 4X400 - South Shore NY and Transit Tech NY waged a furious duel in the last race of the 3-day NSIC meet.  There were two lead changes on the last lap before South Shore's Alex Jeffrey (left) prevailed.  
South Shore 3:17.49, Transit Tech 3:17.64.

Zeigle Twins: Bingham UT juniors Laura and Jackie Zeigle split their resources and came away with two gold medals.   Laura, US junior women's champion in the Winter XC Nationals last month, won the 2-Mile in 10:26.68, fastest in US this year. She lapped all but the next four runners.  Jackie won the mile in 5:00.21, with two seconds to spare over Melissa Donais MA.   
Kedar Inico: Campus Magnet NY sr Kedar Inico, US leader in the 400, won his special decisively in 47.44 and returned to lead off Campus Magnet's blistering 4x200 relay to victory in 1:28.03, just beating Poly Prep NY 1:28.32.
Girls 800: Freshman Selena Sappleton of NY rallied in the last lap to pass both frontrunning Evelyn Dwyer PA and Megan Rademacher TX, who passed Dwyer first. 2:11.25 to 2:11.45, in a rematch of the same top three that ran at the Simplot Games (Dwyer won that one).  
Boys 800: Corey Thomas of Bishop Loughlin NY won in 1:53.05, catching Michael Brown of Transit Tech NY 1:53.4 in the home stretch. Malcolm Hassan of England took the lead on the third lap but misjudged the lap count and pulled up after leaning for the finish line at the end of three laps.
Long Beach Wilson Girls: Following up their national record sprint medley earlier in the meet, Terry Kennedy's deep squad added two more relay wins.  They won a thrilling 4x200 in 1:39.23, 7th fastest all time, when they came out of a 4-team tangle with 3 other teams falling down at the head of the stretch. Lightning TX was disqualified for causing the spill.  Wilson won the 4x400 in 3:43.70, third best all time. 
4x800:: John Jay NY 7:46.83  Seventh fastest all time
4x800: AP Randolph NY 9:09.74  9th fastest all time
Triple Jump: Tabia Charles, Canada, won with 42' 4.75".  Followed by Shenae Dawkins NY at 41'8" and Candice Bauchman CA at 41'10"

NSIC Saturday Highlights - New York
Boys
60D trials: Jerald Watson LA 6.78, setting a new US freshman class record (Mike Newell VA 6.86, 1996); Brendan Christian TX 6.79, Kyle Farmer MD 6.87, Skyler Green LA 6.92, Ahmad Jasmine LA 6.86, Deangelo Hall VA 6.93, Michael Grant GA 6.97, 
200 trials: Glenn McFadden CT 21.50, tying fastest time in US this year.  Brendan Christian TX 21.67, Michael Grant GA 21.96, Kyle Farmer MD 21.98
400 trials: Kedar Inico NY 47.56, Ashton Collins LA 48.09, Byan Susser NY 48.70, Ahmad Jasmine LA 48.84, Jonathan  Fortenberry GA 48.87, Marlin Gross NJ 48.91.
4x200 trials: Camus Magnet NY 1:28.35, Deep Creek VA 1:29.25, Dematha MD 1:29.28, Poly Prep NY 1:29.40, Lake Braddock VA 1:29.43, Transit Tech NY 1:29.90.
Shot Put: Glenn DiGiorgio NJ 63-9, Jeff Cretella CT 57-7, Michael Clancy NJ 56-8.75, Andrew Geant ME 56-8.5, Jeff Schwerdtman NJ 55-2.75, Derek Gilson NJ 55-1.
Pentathlon: Laurent Lavigne-Masse CAN 2,308.
Girls
PV: Samantha Shepard MA 13-3.5 (4.05 meters) USR in a jumpoff over Stacie Manuel MN after both girls cleared 13-1.75 (4.01) for a short lived national indoor record. Molly Lederman MA was third at 12-8.
200 trials: Janice Davis MS 23.73, with US record holder Sanya Richards (23.64 at New York last year) right behind at 23.78; Angel Perkins CA 24.29, Tiandra Ponteen 24.38, Lauryn Williams MI 24.39, Shevon Stoddart 24.63.
400 trials: Stephanie Smith GA 54.89, Angel Perkins CA 55.27, Shevonne Stoddart NY 55.78, Tiffany Abney PA 55.80, Natasha Hastings NY 56.05, Christine Moschella MA 56.65.
Pentathlon: Amber Williams NJ 3,546.
60D trials: Lauryn Williams MI 7.49, Toyin Olopuna CAN 7.52, Sanya Richards FL 7.53, Chantelle Vernon CAN 7.57, China Jones CA 7.69, Zenobia Reed TX 7.60
60H trials: Beau Walker CO 8.66, Amber Williams NJ 8.70, Priscilla Lopes CAN 8.70, Marquita Busby LA 8.84, Shenae Dawkins NY 8.88, Chioma Ukpai FL 8.98.
4x200 trials: Wilson Long Beach CA 1:38.50, Robeson NY 1:38.63, Riverside North CA 1:38.92, Lightning TX 1:40.62, Washington Irving NY 1:41.58, Franklin NJ 1:42.04.  US#1 A.P. Randolph NY did not finish after fouling the first exchange when the second leg took off too soon and ran out of the exchange zone.

NIC Saturday Highlights - Maryland
Boys
200 trials: Jerome Mathis VA 22.02, Todd Dutch NJ 22.07, Duan Barrino NC 22.09, John Kelley OH 22.27, Ben Kittleson KY 22.28, Tyson Gay KY 22.29
400 trials: Brett Wilson NC 49.00, Ernie Terrell PA 49.12, Brian Ford VA 49.22, Travis Yancey PA 49.37, Jason Lovell CA 49.38, Kelly Willie TX 49.42
TJ: Alonzo Moore VA 48-5.25
WT: John-Paul Smolenski NY 70-7.25
PV: Sage Thames TX 17-0
SMR: Ballou DC 3:36.42 (Hayfield VA 3:37.25)
DMR: Atlantic Del Ray FL 10:03.70 (South Lakes VA 10:05.72)
Shuttle Hurdle Relay:  Wayne OH 30.65
4xMile: Christian Brothers NJ 17:51.21 (N. Mecklenburg NC 17:51.70)
Pentathlon: Darion Powell WA 3,595
Walk: Benjamin Shorey ME 6:20.37 (US junior class record)

Girls
200 trials: Erica Whipple FL 24.14, Allyson Felix CA 24.43, Shana Cox NY 24.87, Tysha Colon 25.09, Danielle Bailey DE 25.09, Kamilah Salaam DE 25.26
400 trials: Dominique Darden PA 56.89, Erica Johnson DC 57.27, Ramona Modeste 57.32, Christina Smith PA 57.57, Takia Brooks PA 58.07, Renee Clarke MD 58.21
4xMile: Rockford MI 20:48.10 (Campbell Co WY 21:02.84)
TJ: Sheena Gordon PA 41-4.5
WT: Katherine Johnston RI 55-3
SMR: Chester PA 4:10.62 (Oakton VA 4:10.62, Boys and Girls NY 4:11.04, Trenton Central NJ 4:11.51, Holy Trinity NY 4:11.73).
DMR: Rockford MI 11:58.05 (Boys & Girls NY 12:00.91, San Lorenzo Valley CA 12:06.25, Manchester Central NH 12:06.27)
Pentathlon: Desiree Jones OH 3,356 (Bonnie Meekins VA 3,126)
Walk: Robyn Stevens CA 7:22.99
Shuttle Hurdle Relay: Palm Beach Lakes FL 32.49

NSIC Friday Highlights - New York
Detailed Friday NSIC Results
Girls SMR: Long Beach Wilson CA 3:53.17 - new US record. A.P. Randolph NY 3:59.42, No. 4 all time and New York State record.
Girls SP: Karen Freberg, San Luis Obispo CA sr, 52-4.5, setting a new meet record (Krista Keir 51-5.5 - 1998) 
Boys SMR: Simon Gratz PA 3:28.29 won a hotly contested race in the fastest time in the US this year.   Lake Braddock VA was second in 3:28.67.  
Boys HJ: Dan Olson NY 6-11 (Quentin Matthews VA 6-10.25); both jumpers passed at 2.13 meters (6-11.75) and both missed three times at 2.15 (7-0.5)
Boys LJ: Gemayel Alexander, Bakersfield CA sr, 23-10.25 (I. Perfection Harris 23-9)
Girls HJ:  Chaunte Howard, Riverside North CA jr, 5-5 (fewest misses over Nichole Brown TX, Angela Collinge CAN, and Amy Wisehart CT)
Boys DMR: John Jay NY 10:19.44 (Parsippany NJ 10:21.31); John Jay took a huge lead into the anchor legs, with Tim Walker holding off Brian Boyett.  
Girls DMR: Hillsborough NJ 12:15.91, as anchor Kristen Meyer overhauled Catha Mullen of (Bronxville NY 12:16.94 on the last lap.
Girls LJ: Shenae Dawkins NY 18-9.25

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.   

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. 

Great American 2001
San Francisco - Charlotte - New York
Registration Deadline extended to April 15
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

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 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

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)

Short Takes

Gems of 2001

• New Balance National Scholastic Indoor Championships - 5 new national records in spectacular meet at the New York Armory.
• Nike Indoor Classic - Alan Webb 8:45.19 is 3rd fastest indoor 2-mile ever; Atlantic FL & South Lakes VA run 2-3 on all-time DMR list.
• 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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