Results and Highlights

Detail: Saturday Field Events - Saturday Running Events
USATF Release
Hot performances dominate at Junior Olympics
Favorites prevailed on the track as records continued to fall at the 35th annual
USA Track & Field Junior Olympic Championships in Sacramento on Saturday.

Michelle Carter (Roadrunners) won her second competition in as many days on
Saturday. Carter, who won the intermediate girls shot put on Friday, won the
intermediate girls discus (46.21m/151-07.00) Saturday afternoon. Also, please
note that Carter’s record mark on Friday in the shot put was revised to 15.19m/49-10.00, still a national mark.

Donovan Kilmartin (Team Idaho) won his second title of the meet with his winning clearance and personal best in the young men’s pole vault. Kilmartin
(5.00m/16-04.75) edged out 2001 World Youth teammate Trey Bell (4.70m/15-05.00), competing for Extreme T&F, in the last competition of the day. Kilmartin set a new youth decathlon record (7405) on Wednesday.

Other national record marks from Saturday included a new mark in the young
women’s pole vault. Elizabeth Boyle (SW Cheetahs), a member of Team USA from last week’s World Youth meet in Hungary, bettered a 1996 mark of 3.76 meters set by Alexa Harz.

Domenique Manning (Inland Empire) lowered the 1994 mark of Char Foster (14.12) in the preliminaries of the youth girls 100m hurdles with a winning time of 14.07.

Also in preliminary action on Saturday, the 4x100 relay team from Track Houston won the bantam boys in a national record time of 52.57.
The previous mark of 52.61 was set in 1993 by the Oak Cliff Lions. The 4x800m
relay teams from United Stars TC and Whirlaway TC both bettered the previous
national records.

The United Stars TC (8:53.93), competing in the young women’s division, ran 10 seconds faster than the 1983 record time of 9:03.42. The Whirlaway TC (7:56.11), competing in the intermediate boys relay, outlasted the Houston Heat (7:58.11) to win the race. Both squads lowered the previous mark of 7:59.69, set in 2000 by Self Esteem Thru Athletics.

Yong-Sung Leal, competing for the Reebok Aggie RC, won the young men’s 5k
(14:27.14) and bettered the previous national time of 14:39.66, set in 1984 by Scott Fry. In the 800m finals, Cody Harper (Albuquerque TC) and Reginald Warren (Gazelle) both set national records. Harper, competing in the youth boys
division, claimed his national title with a time of 1:56.36, bettering Michael
Granville’s 1992 record time of 1:57.01. Warren, competing in the midget boys division, lowered the national record time of 2:07.9h, set in 1991 by Obea Moore, who witnessed Warren’s time of 2:07.21 from the stands.In bantam competition,

Stephen Hill (SWG Express) and Angel Watson (Mobile Parks) won the boys and girls 200m finals on Saturday. Hill, with a time of 26.67 and Watson, with a time of 27.69. In the 800m finals, Connor Revord, competing unattached, claimed his title (2:19.98), as Brooks Sharpton (Miami NW Express), captured her title in a time of 2:25.10.

From the field, Joshua Harris (AW Brown TC) won the boys long jump (4.67m/15-04.00).Patrick Blackie (Franklin TC) and Rafael Klein-Cloud (Kenyan Runners), fresh off wins at the 2001 USATF Youth Athletic Championships, won titles in the midget divisions of the boys 200m and 3000m. Blackie’s time of 24.53, edged out Westside Kickers’ Demondre Ward (24.97), while Klein-Cloud (10:02.42) outlasted San Joaquin’s Erick Garcia (10:04.94). Ward had already claimed a title with a win in the long jump (5.49m/18-00.25) earlier in the day. In the girls 200m, Terra Evans (Arizona Cheetahs) claimed her title in 25.66, while in the girls 3000m, Brooke Russell (Valley United) captured the title in 10:32.36. In the girls 800m, Quantikia Stepney (Track FAC) won with a time of 2:16.77. In the
long jump, Chia Hudson (NY Novas) captured her title with a final mark of 4.75m/15-07.00.

In the youth division, Keegan Herring claimed the 200m title (22.70), while Judith Onyepunuka captured the 200m title (24.65). Both Herring and Onyepunuka compete for the Arizona Rising Suns. In the girls 800m, Illusions’ Krishna Curry, captured the title with a time of 2:13.51. Off the track, Jenny Svoboda (Cornhuskers) won the shot put with a mark of 13.29m/43-07.25, while Bobby Scott (Fresno Flames) won the boys shot put with a winning mark of 15.98m/52-05.25. Jayci Peters (unattached) claimed the javelin title with a winning mark of
35.43m/116-03.00.

Greg Bracy (Silver Springs Spartans) and Sonya Richards (Young Achievers) both captured titles in the boys and girls intermediate dash 200m. Bracy (21.85)
edged out New Horizon’s Michael Grant (21.95), while Richards (23.58) outlasted Stephanie Smith (23.58), competing unattached. In the 800m, Russell Brown (Whirlaway TC) won with a time of 1:54.51, while Treani Smith (Los Angeles) won with a time of 2:09.88. Taylor Lucero (Kern Co. Fire) claimed the boys 3000m title (8:51.29). On the field, Dallas Griffin (Five Ring TC), won the boys discus throw (49.30m/161-09.00), while Ryan Scott (unattached) captured the javelin title with a mark of 52.63m/172-08.00.

In the young women/men division, Willie Hordge (Track Houston) and Angel Perkins (Team of Purpose) both captured titles in the 200m. Hordge (21.23) and Perkins (23.33) were both members of Team USA that competed in Debrecen, Hungary last week as a part of the IAAF World Youth Championships.

Abby Emsick (Cornhuskers) captured her second title of the meet with a win in the young women’s shot put (13.23m/43-05.00). Emsick also won the young women’s discus throw (45.91m/150-07.00) on Thursday. William Fitts (Dallas Allstars) won the 800m (1:50.08), while Briene Simmons (Jaguar) won the young women’s 800m (2:08.98). On the field, Rachel Walker (unattached) won the javelin title (44.34m/145-06.00) for the young women, while Ben Francis (Eagle Express) won the young men’s title (57.93m/190-01.00).

NOTES FROM JO’S
Numbers from the I2Sports Trackmeets.com webcast have well exceeded the
expectations of USA Track & Field. I2Sports reports that over 29,000 unique
visitors have clicked into the webcast over the first five days of the
competition. Dr. Kamal Jabbour, chief engineer for I2Sports Trackmeets.com,
said, “This has been our largest event so far. The viewership for the first five
days of competition exceeds the New York State Indoor Scholastic, National
Scholastic Indoor and the Big East meets combined.” Jabbour noted that I2Sports Trackmeets.com will have webcast some 70 hours of track and field at this week’s Junior Olympics. To date, they have webcast approximately 160 events. The USATF Junior Olympic National Championships coverage will be archived on their site for one year.

Former 100m world record holder Leroy Burrell, head coach of the University of
Houston, is also in attendance this week. “The Junior Olympics is my chance to
make an appearance and meet up with other coaches in the sport,” said Burrell.
“It also allows me to see what’s coming on the horizon, because I’m here to lay
the groundwork for the future of the UH program. This meet will help to comprise our Olympic Team in 2012, and we continue to put together a quality program that wins a lot of medals at the highest level of the sport.”

Track & field stars from the past and present are in attendance at this week’s
Junior Olympic Championships. 2000 Olympic bronze medalist decathlete Chris
Huffins, an assistant track & field coach for Georgia Tech, is on hand
presenting awards to many of the Junior Olympic champions. William Obea Moore, a five-time junior Olympic record holder, is here working with the LA Jets Track Club. Michael Carter, silver medalist in the 1984 Olympics in the shot put, is on hand supporting his daughter Michelle, who won titles in the intermediate girls shot put and discus this weekend.

Complete Results: Friday Field Events - Friday Running Events
USATF release
Julene Bailey, Michelle Carter set records; sun sizzles
SACRAMENTO– Performances at the 35th annual USA Track & Field Junior Olympic Championships in Sacramento continued to sizzle with temperatures rising back into the triple digits on Friday. The first day of the meet saw temperatures over 100 degrees, with the next two days cooling off, but Friday’s heat was back up in the 100’s.

Julene Bailey (Team Idaho), fresh from her first international competition at
the World Youth Athletic Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, last week,
claimed the intermediate girls pole vault title with a clearance of 3.75m/12-03.50. Bailey’s mark was also a Junior Olympic meet record and just off her national record tying mark (3.80m), at the USATF Youth Athletics Championships in Decatur earlier this month.

Michelle Carter (Roadrunners), the silver-medalist from the World Youth
Championships, captured the intermediate girls shot put title with a record
mark of 15.20m/49-10.50. It bettered Carter’s previous mark of 14.44m that
she set in July 2000.

Ebony Collins (Quiet Fire), Tiffany Ross (Miami NW Express) and Agnes
Gallegos (Albuquerque Olympians) all turned in record performances on Friday.
Collins inthe midget girls 400m preliminaries (55.54) and Ross in the young
women’s 400m hurdle preliminaries (58.20). Gallegos claimed her Junior
Olympic meet recordin the bantam girls mini javelin (26.91m/88-03.00), just
off the national record of 27.19m set at the Youth Athletics Championships in
Decatur earlier this month.

In bantam competition on Friday, Brandon Haynes (Roadrunners) and Diane
Knights (Ft. Lewis Elite) captured titles in the boys shot put and girls long
jump respectively. Haynes’ mark of 10.25m/33-07.50 was the only mark over 30
feet, while Knight edged out runner-up Karynn Dunn (Free Spirit) with a jump
of 4.41m/14-05.75.

Kyle Bell (Fresno Flames) and CJ Navarro (unattached) both won titles in the
midget discus throw in close competitions. Bell edged out runner-up Geoffrey
Tabor (Ardmore) with a mark of 36.22m/118-10.00, while Navarro bested
runner-up Allison Lay (unattached) with a mark of 29.83m/97-10.00.

In the youth division, Stephen Lare (Phoenix Bobcats) and Desirae Gonder
(Grayhounds) won titles in the high jump competition. Lare’s mark of
1.85m/6-00.75 and Gonder’s mark of 1.70m/5-07.00 were both just under the
national record. In the triple jump, Darryl Jones, competing for the Texas
Mustangs, won with a mark of 12.74m/41-09.75, while Brittney Daniells,
competing for 3M TC, won with a mark of 11.11m/36-05.50. Ryan Shuler
(unattached) won the youth boys pole vault (4.12m/13-06.25m), while Amy
Bilmanis (Thunderbolts TC) won the youth girls discus (39.48m/129-06.00).

MichelleSanford, a bronze-medal winning member of Team USA that just returned from Hungary, captured the intermediate girls triple jump title
(12.51m/41-00.50). Competing for the Irvine Cougars, Sanford just missed out
the national record mark of 12.54m. Also in the intermediate division,
Reynold Smith (unattached) won the triple jump (14.25m/46-09.00), while Kevin
Barrington (Grapevine GA) won the pole vault (4.55m/14-11.00) and Jenna
Utecht, competing unattached, claimed the high jump title (1.70m/5-07.00).

In the young women/men division, Janon Busby (Mobile Parks) captured the
men’s triple jump (15.39m/50-06.00), while Janae Young (Southcentral AA) took
the women’s triple jump title (12.17m/39-11.25). Also on Friday, Robert
Fennell (Miami NW Express) won the young men’s shot put (18.70m/61-04.25), as JacentaSpandl (unattached) won the young women’s high jump (1.70m/5-07.00).

Thursday Results Intermediate and YM/YW
USATF release
Records keep on falling at Junior Olympic Championships
SACRAMENTO– Field events and running preliminaries took center stage at the 35th annual USA Track & Field Junior Olympic Championships in Sacramento on Thursday. This is the final meet of the Verizon Youth Series.

Matthew Kosecki (Track Houston) and Josh Johnson (Crenshaw Cougars) both set national records in the bantam and midget boys mini javelin throw on
Thursday. Kosecki’s throw of 37.46m/122-11.00 was over seven meters longer
than the previous record of 30.17m, while Johnson’s throw of 37.58m/123-03.00
was over ten meters better than the previous mark of 26.33m. The previous
marks were set in Decatur, Ill., during the 2001 USATF Youth Athletic
Championships earlier this month. This is the first year that the mini
javelin is being contested at the national level.

In the midget girls mini javelin competition, Leigh Petranoff, competing
unattached, lowered her own record mark by nearly five meters with a winning
mark of 35.32m/115-10.00. Petranoff, daughter of former Olympian and former
javelin world record holder Tom Petranoff, set the previous mark (30.22m) at
theYouth Athletics meet in Decatur earlier this month.

In other field event finals on Thursday, Tomas Navarro, competing unattached,
won the young men’s discus throw (51.71m/169-08.00), as Jesse Williams
(Junior Striders) finished first in the high jump (2.15m/7-00.50) in the same
division. Elzbieta Wojcicka (unattached) won the young women’s long jump
(6.15m/20-02.25), while Abby Emsick (Cornhuskers) claimed the title in the
young women’s discus (45.91m/150-07.00). Kiwan Lawson, competing for Capital City, claimed the young men’s long jump title with a mark of 7.28m/23-10.75. Ryan Shuler, competing unattached, won the youth boys pole vault
(4.12m/13-06.25).

Also on the field, Jesse Samples, competing for Santa Cruz TC, won the
intermediate boys high jump (1.95m/6-04.75), while Tianna Madison
(unattached) won the intermediate girls long jump (6.00m/19-08.25). Justin
Hoskins (Grand Rapids) won the intermediate boys long jump (7.19m/23-07.25).
Beau Whitney captured the youth boys discus throw title (49.71m/163-01.00)
and Bobbi Buyck won the youth girls pole vault (2.85m/9-04.25). Both Whitney
and Buyck are competing unattached. In the midget shot put, Kyle Bell (Fresno
Flames) won his competition with a mark of 14.58m/47-10.00 while Jocelyn
Martin (Glenarden) won her competition with a mark of 11.23m/36-10.25. In the
bantam girls shot put, Gemma Washington, competing for Quiet Fire, claimed
her title with a mark of 8.52m/27-11.50. In the boys high jump, Jameson
Harris, competing in the midget division, won with a mark of 1.60m/5-03.00,
while Lester White (Riverside SW) claimed the bantam boys title with a mark
of 1.40m/4-07.00.

On the track, local favorite Robyn Stevens (West Wind Flyers), won her second
title of the meet with a win the in young women’s 3000m (10:09.40). Stevens,
who recited the Olympic Oath during Wednesday night’s Opening Ceremonies,
graduated from Vacaville (Calif) High School in June 2001. Life Sports’ Delia
Cesar won the intermediate girls 3000m (10:18.78), while Valley United’s Jose
Melena won the youth boys 3000m (9:26.15). Merideth Snow (Cornhuskers) won theyouth girls 3000m (10:11.65).

Michael Thomas (New World TC) won the youth boys long jump (6.21m/20-04.50), while Tiaerra McLaurin (Young Achievers) captured the youth girls long jump title (5.56m/18-03.00). In the high jump, Alison Worthen (Pre TC) won the
midget division (1.45m4-09.00), while Desirae Payton (Speed City) won the
bantam division (1.40m/4-07.00) and her second title of the meet. Payton won
the bantam girls triathlon (1359) on Wednesday.

Multi Event detail
USATF release
SACRAMENTO– The action on the track continues to be as hot as the California sun at the 35th annual USA Track & Field Junior Olympic Championships in Sacramento on Wednesday. This is the final meet of the Verizon Youth Series.

The meet, being webcast live by USATF, in cooperation with i2sports Trackmeets.com, is taking place at California State University, Sacramento, site of the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials.

Team Idaho’s Donovan Kilmartin, who competed last week at the World Youth Athletics Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, won the young men’s decathlon (7405) by nearly 1000 points to cap off an exciting day full of record-breaking performances. Kilmartin’s overall point total bettered the previous mark of 7377 points by Marcell Allmond in 1999.

For the first time in Junior Olympic history, athletes competed at a 5000m
race walk in two age divisions, young men/women and intermediate boys and
girls. The event, which was contested for the first time at the increased
distance at the USA Youth Athletic National Championships in Decatur, Ill.
July 3-7th,saw a new record in each of the four events.

Local favorite Robyn Stevens (West Wind Flyers), won the young women’s
division in25:20.51, breaking the Decatur (Ill.) record time (28:09.82).
Stevens, a 2001 graduate of Vacaville (CA) High School, lives less than an
hour from Sacramento and will attend the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in
the fall. Matt Boyles, competing unattached, won the young men’s race
(21:58.42), lowering the previous mark (32:09.22) by almost 11 minutes.

In the intermediate division, Zackery Pollinger (NJ Striders) won the boys
competition (24:47.85), while Spartanburg’s Erica Adams won the girls
competition (27:52.90). The previous record times (from Decatur) were
26:07.81 (for the intermediate boys) and 28:04.59 (for the intermediate
girls).

In the youth division, Salem TC’s Jared Swehosky (16:04.36) won the boys
3000m race walk, while Audra Curtis, competing unattached, won the girls 3000
race walk (15:33.46).

Edging out her twin sister by almost 300 points, Texas Express’ Diana Pickler
(5365) won the young women’s heptathlon in a new Junior Olympic meet record.
Julie Pickler finished with 5068 points, edging out a late surge from New
Braunfels TC’s Lauren Reimer (5043). The previous young women’s heptathlon
mark (5104) was set in 1998 by Ellanee Richardson. Also in record fashion,
Kiani Profit (Pasadena Running Rose) won the midget girls pentathlon (3111)
under the new format that includes the 80m hurdles. Profit lowered the
previous mark of 2930points, set in 2000 by Tiffany Chavis. In the bantam
boys triathlon, Rising Stars’ Marcus Davis (966) edged out LA Jets Vaness
Harris (762) in the final event to win the overall competition. Harris, who
was leading 682-658 heading into the 400m event, finished 11th (1:13.09) in
the 400m, while Davis won the event (1:03.28) and set a Junior Olympic meet
record with 966 overall points. The previous record of 925 points, was set by
Donn Thompson in 1997.

Nimrod Piggee (M.P. Striders) won the midget boys pentathlon with 2470
points. Piggee edged out Anthony Wright (Cal Quicksilver) who finished with
2381 points. Ben Looney, competing for Pre TC, won the intermediate boys
decathlon with 6079 points. Looney sealed his title with a 20-second cushion
in his 1500m win. Desirae Payton (Speed City) won the bantam girls triathlon
(1359), edging out Turquoise Thompson (1235) for the title. Gayle Hunter,
competing for TrackWorld Club, won the intermediate girls heptathlon (4797)
despite a late surge by The Glades TC’s Anita Perkins (4701).

Detailed Results
USATF release
SACRAMENTO – With temperatures soaring in the triple digits, the 35th annual USA Track & Field Junior Olympic Championships began preliminary and finals action in the multi events as well as finals in the steeplechase and race walk for several age divisions on Tuesday. This is the final meet of the
Verizon Youth Series.

The meet, being webcast live by USATF, in cooperation with i2sports Trackmeets.com, is taking place at California State University, Sacramento, site of the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials.

Action was hot off and on the track early on Tuesday, with WNY Jets’ Alyissa Hasan establishing a new youth girls pentathlon record with 3521 points. Hasan broke Jacquelyn Johnson’s mark of 3474 points, set in 1998. In the youth boys pentathlon competition, New World Track Club’s Michael Thomas (3149) edged out San Diego Athlete’s Glen Woods (3059) to claim the youth boys title.

In Tuesday’s race walk action, Andrew Adams (Spartanburg) and Victoria Dell’Aquila (NJ Striders) both won the bantam division of the 1500m race walk. Adams won the boys division (7:16.07), while Dell’Aquila won the girls division (8:40.54). While in the midget division, Eric Lawson (Elgin Sharks TC) won the boys division (7:32.37), while Allison Snochowski (New Balance) won the girls division (7:50.37) of the 1500m race walk.

Other finals on Tuesday included the 2000m steeplechase, where David Ryan
(Havasu Harriers) won the intermediate boys division (6:12.62), while Richie
Pemberton (Bozeman Trac) won the young men division (6:08.70).

After four events in the young women’s heptathlon, twin sisters Diana (3262) and Julie (3055) Pickler lead the competition. The Picklers both compete for theTexas Express. World Track Club’s Gayle Hunter leads the intermediate girls heptathlon with 2840 points through four events.

Through five events of the intermediate boys decathlon, Pre TC’s Ben Looney leads with 3255 points, while Team Idaho’s Donovan Kilmartin, a member of the World Youth Championships team that competed last week in Debrecen, Hungary, is the day 1 leader in young men with 3893 points.