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Upcoming track and field meets 2008 Outdoor Track & Field Schedule Weekend of May 24: NCAA Division II Championships NCAA Division III Championships Weekend of May 31: NCAA Division I East Region Championships NCAA Division I MidEast Region Championships NCAA Division I Midwest Region Championships NCAA Division I West Region Championships June 11-14: NCAA Division I Championships June 27 - July 6: - USATF Junior Outdoor ChampionshipsJune 27 - July 6: - U.S. Olympic Team TrialsAugust 8 - August 24: - Beijing Summer Olympic Games
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Ashton shakes off false start in the 100m dash, sets pr in the deuce She has been waiting for this moment all season. After tearing through all comers this year her time was finally here.
The CIF State track and field meet was going to be her little play ground. 2009 was going to be the year she shows who is boss in California high school sprints. Then it happened. On your mark, get set....., false start. Ashton Purvis, fastest in cali, and second in the nation jumped out of the blocks a hair early and she was out of the 100m dash. Purvis still had the 200m dash and she made the most of it, lighting up the track with a 23.51 to qualify for SatUrday's final with the fastest time at state. Ashton ran away with the 200m dash to win her second state title and first over 200 meters. De La Salle's Chase Wheeler was also able to bring home a state title. Chase won the long jumper with a leap of 25 feet, 2 1/4 inches. It was the second best jump of the year in the nation and it came after second place finisher Gahr-Cerritos' Aaron Bradley's leap of 25-0 1/2 took the lead late in the competition. If Wheeler did not have enough on his mind, the finals of the 4x100 meter relay was just minutes away. After popping off his winning jump, Chase ran over to his third leg of the relay, changed shoes and picked up the number left on the ground by his teammate Ken Egu. De La Salle would finish third in race with a season best time of 40.85. James Logan's Ciarra Brewer topped the entire nation with her winning triple jump of 42-11 1/2. She edged out Moreau Catholic-Hayward's Alitta Boyd who leaped (42-4 1/4) to grab the first of her two second place finishes at the 2009 CIF State meet. Boyd jumped 20'2" in the long jump. Pinewood-Los Altos Hills junior Angela Gradiska, who finished second in 23.85 surprised many by adding a fourth place in the 100 (11.74). George Atkinson III of Granada-Livermore finished third in the boys 100 meters (10.66) and fourth in the 200 (21.46). "I was a little more nervous Friday night, in the prelims. Once you can make it to the finals you can relax and just run" said a happy Atkinson lll after the meet. The team title's was crazy on the boy's side while it was business as usual for the girls of Long Beach Poly. Poly won their record 11th state team title while four teams Clovis East, Frontier, La Sierra and Cathedral all tied with 20pts each. La Sierra got their points from the 400m dash/300m hurdles double out of Reggie Wyatt and Cathedral got a share of the title due to Randall Carroll 100m dash (10.38), 200m dash (21.08) double wins. Frontier's Matt Darr was also twice as nice with a winning toss in the shot put (62'1.25") and heave in the discus (190'). Clovis East almost brought home a state title getting pts from Mike Peterson who finished second in the pole vault, clearing 15'11". Willy Irwin grabbed a second place in the discus (188'8") and a fourth in the shot put (58'7.5"). The Poly girls were simply dominate, scoring points in nine events with seven different athletes scoring points. Not one of the girls on Poly's team who scored at state is a senior. Complete 2009 State meet results click here
The Best is yet to come It is early in his track and field career, but George Atkinson lll let it be known that he is the fastest person in Northern California and he is just a sophomore.
Atkinson pulled off an impressive double Saturday's Meet of Champions at Cal-Berkeley's Edwards Stadium. George, from Granada High, held off De La Salle's Ken Egu, winning the 100m dash in 10.70 to Egu's 10.87. Atkinson and Egu came through one, two in the 200m dash as well. This time George won in 21.92 and Egu in 22.11. George trails only one Northern Cali sprinter, San Mateo's Kendall Spencer who won the Central Coast 100m dash title with a 10.68 at Gilroy High Friday. The state leader is also the national leader. Randall Carroll (Cathedral), who has run 10.30 this year. Carroll won the Southern Masters in 10.51 Saturday. Spencer had quite a meet himself in the CCS Championships. He added a 200m dash title (21.72) and a long jump title (23'5.5"). He became the first athlete to win all three in the same year in the 44-year history of the CCS Championships. Ashton Purvis showed she is ready for who ever comes out of the South. She ran a 11.48 to win the 100m dash before setting a Meet of Champions record in the 200m dash, winning in 23.60. That broke the mark set by Latasha Gilliam back in 1994 (23.62). Ashton has her sights on a 100, 200m dash double at state next week. She knows that one Jessica Davis will be waiting for her in the deuce. Last year Davis, a Jr. from Highland High nipped Purvis at the end of the 200m final. James Logan showed that even in a down year they cam still be the team to beat. The Colts girls team won their 7th NCS team title in a row and their 8th in 9 years. Janelle Prothro won the discus with a toss of 132' 4" and Donnise Powell added to the Colts points with a first place in the 300m hurdles (43.39). Bishop O'Dowd and Castro Valley know each other well. HAAL league rivals Chad Jones (O'Dowd) and Maurice Valentine staged a great race in the 110-m hurdles final. Jones came from behind to win in 14.14 to Valentine's 14.18. Amador Valley's boys team set a school record to win the 4x400 relay in 3:21.19. De La Salle's Chase Wheeler made the state finals in three events. He will only compete in two, the 4x100 relay and the long jump. He won both to go along with a four place finish in the 100m dash. Moreau Catholic's Alitta Boyd went one better and made it to state in four events. The USC bound senior will compete in the 100m dash, long jump, triple jump and 200m dash. Boyd is a favorite in both the long and triple jumps. Clayton Valley's Nathanael Litwiller showed he is ready for what might come at the state meet by winning the 800m in 1:53.15. That is the fourth fastest time in the state this year. Deer Valley's Chizoba Okodogbe has one of the fastest times in the state this year in the 400m dash. She won the race in 54.40. The state meet is June 5th and 6th at Buchanan High in Clovis, Ca just outside Fresno. Gay throws it down at Reebok Grand Prix NEW YORK CITY - Tyson Gay announced to the world that he is back, running the third-fastest 200 meters of all time and annihilating a world-class field Saturday at the 2009 Reebok Grand Prix at Icahn Stadium.
In his first race on American soil since his devastating injury in the 2008 Olympic Trials 200m, the 2007 World Outdoor 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay gold medalist was ready. When the gun went off, so did he. With a first 100 meters that rivaled world-record pace, Gay dominated the Western Union men's 200, blazing to the finish line in 19.58 seconds. Second place finisher Wallace Spearmon, Gay's former training partner, was four tenths of a second back in 19.98. Xavier Carter was third in 20.27. The performance in his first 200m of the season surprised even Gay, whose 2009 training has thus far included only strength work, rather than purely sprinting work. "It made me very, very happy," said Gay, who injured his hamstring at the Olympic Trials and wasn't fully fit at the Olympic Games. "19.5 had been one of the goals I had, but to do that in the first race is very pleasing. I wanted to work on my reaction and my start. Then I just ran. I ran for my life. When I came toward the finish line, I got kind of tight, and I wanted to bring it on in. I tried to push all the way through, just to see where my body is at." Gay now holds the third and fourth fastest times ever over 200m: Saturday's race and the 19.62 he ran to win the 2007 USA Outdoor Championships. Only USA Track & Field Hall of Famer Michael Johnson (19.32) and triple 2008 Olympic champion Usain Bolt (19.30) have run faster. In fact, Bolt's world-record performances in Beijing have provided motivation for Gay. "He's probably excited," Gay said when asked what he thought Bolt's reaction to his race might be. "He ran 14.3 for 150 so he is very fit. His 200 (at Beijing) was a shocker, and the way he won the 100 was shocking, but I wasn't shocked that he ran that fast." The race also proved a return of confidence for the unusually humble and introspective sprinter. "It was difficult," Gay said of returning from Beijing not having met his goals. "The biggest part was getting over the 4x100 relay. The other part was getting hurt when I was in the best shape of my life. I felt like a let my city down, my family down and my state down." As for Saturday's performance, "This race tells me I'm pretty fit." For his efforts, Gay was named Team USA Athlete of the Meet, presented by Visa. His performance was one of seven world leaders on the day at the fourth stop of the Outdoor Visa Championship Series Anything you can do I can do better The former American record holder in the 3,000m steeplechase, Anna Willard won the women's 800m in a world-leading 1:59.29. Running a conservative race for the first 700m, Willard kicked into high gear over the last 100 to overtake three-time Olympian Hazel Clark and 2008 Olympic finalist Kenia Sinclair of Jamaica. After making the Olympic Games final in the steeplechase and finishing ninth, Willard decided she needed a change and made the move to the Mammoth Track Club and Coach Terrence Mahon. Since the switch, Willard won the USA Indoor 1,500m title 4:17.37 and the BAA road mile in 4:38.6. Double Olympic silver medalist and two-time World Outdoor champion over 200m, Allyson Felix ran down Olympic silver medalist Shericka Williams (JAM) in the Nutrilite women's 400m to win in a world-leading 50.50 to Williams' 50.58. 2007 World Outdoor bronze medalist Novlene Williams-Mills took third in 51.11. Beijing silver medalist Jenn Stuczynski continued her domination of the women's pole vault on American soil, winning the event with a world-leading 4.81 meters/15 feet 9.25 inches. 2000 Olympic gold medalist Stacy Dragila was second with a clearance of 4.52m/14-10. Two-time World Outdoor 100m medalist Lauryn Williams posted a world leader in winning the women's 200m, crossing the line in 22.34. 2006 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor champion Shalonda Solomon was the runner-up in 22.43. The men's 5,000m saw an American all-comers record set as 2008 Olympic 10,000m bronze medalist Micah Kogo won the race in 13.02.90. 2007 double World Outdoor champion Bernard Lagat was the runner-up in 13:03.06. One of the biggest upsets of the day came in the NYRR women's 5,000m, when Kenya's Linet Masai handily dispatched world record-holder Tirunesh Dibaba, 14:35.39 to 14:40.93, to run another world leader Other winning athletes included 2008 USA Indoor champion Mike Rodgers winning the Visa men's 100m in a windy 9.94 (+3.1mps) and 2008 Olympic gold medalist LaShawn Merritt winning the Nutrilite men's 400m in 44.75. 2008 Olympic bronze medalists Tasha Danvers and Bershawn Jackson won their respective races as Danvers won the Irie Jam women's 400m hurdles in 55.19 and Jackson won the Reebok men's 400m hurdles in 48.52. 2008 Olympian Christin Wurth-Thomas won the Reebok women's 1,500m in a meet record, personal best 4:03.96. On the men's side, 2008 Olympian and NCAA champion Leo Manzano won the race in 3:34.14. Two-time Olympic silver medalist and Indoor Visa Champion Terrence Trammell continued on his winning ways, winning the men's 110m hurdles in 13.12, and Carmelita Jeter won the women's 100 in a wind-aided 10.85 (+2.8). For more information and complete results, visit www.VisaChampionshipSeries.com or www.usatf.org.
Cerrito's edges Laney for women's state track and field championships, Riverside repeats as men's champ at the 2009 California JC state meet
Both Riverside (men) and Cerrito's (women) repeated as state JC track and field championships at San Mateo Jr. College. They took different routes to the championship. Riverside did not win one single event at the state championships. They made three second place finishes added up to 68pts, ten point ahead of second place Cerrito's and Moorpark College's who tied with 58pts. Cerrito's won the 4 x 100 meter relay in 40.24 --the fastest time in the state and No. 6 in the USA this The Cerrito's women on the other hand got victories from triple jump winner Jessica Barfield (41 feet,1-inch), Erin Straughter in the 100 meter hurdles (14.37), and Karen Guravska in the pole vault (12-2). Guravska also placed third in the javelin and fifth in the high jump to tally 20 points. They were put to the test by Laney who got great performances from sprinters Lauryn Newson who won the 100 meters in 11.78, 200 meters in 23.64 to go along with her long jump title on Friday. Laney's Champelle Brown won the 400 meters in 53.89, improving her own state leading and No. 2 national Curtis Mitchell of Southwestern College dusted off the track winning state titles in the 100meter dash (10.31). That must have been just a warm up because he bounced back to break off the 3rd fastest time by anybody in college to date (20.58). Cassie Mitchell of Orange Coast College set a national JC record in Saturday’s first running final, the
TRACK HITS THE GREAT OUTDOORS
A new season has come back around and after spending the last month and a half doing laps in side converted basketball gyms track and field athlete’s finally got to do their thing outdoors, on a real track. The Stanford Invitational provided a chance to see what the future might hold when it comes time for the NCAA Championships and the CIF state meet. Several athlete’s put up great marks while many others found out just where they are and what they need to improve on to get a lane assignment down in Fresno come state. Ashton Purvis showed that she will have a very fast moving bull’s eye on her back when she dusted off the track with a 11.86 in the prelims of the 100m dash. She followed that with a 11.56 in the finals. Both marks are the fastest in the state right now and for such an early date, there is still a lot of room for improvement for Ashton. “I am right where I want to be right now” Purvis had to say, “I feel good right now, but I still need to work on everything, to try and get faster.” That might not be what other sprinters want to hear. Bishop O’Dowd’s Chad Jones pulled off a double dip, winning the 110m hurdles with a respectable 14.45 and the Triple jump with a leap of 47’. Vacaville’s Kyler martin was second in 14.62. Laguna Creek came off the curve in third place in the 4x100m relay, but a strong anchor leg brought Laguna Creek home with a win, finishing in 41.74, just beating out Skyline (41.90) and De La Salle (41.95) in one of the best races of the weekend. Jacque Taylor a Jr. from Casa Grande and Justine Fedronic a senior from Carlmont gave us a preview of the up coming Meet OF champions and the state meet with a duel in the 1-mile race. Taylor won th e race with a good time of 4:54. 32 while Fedronic was not that far behind (4:55.27). Another state meet preview was played out when Claremont’s Kori Carter busted loose with a national leading time of a wind legal 13.92 in the 100m hurdles.
Legendary coach Payton Jordan dies Highly accomplished athlete, coach, meet director, administrator and National Track & Field Hall of Famer Payton Jordan died of cancer Thursday at his home in Laguna Hills, Calif. He was 91. Born in Whittier, Calif., on March 19, 1917, Jordan was an outstanding athlete at the University of Southern California before becoming a legendary coach at Occidental College and Stanford University as well as a record-setting Masters runner. At USC, where he was coached by fellow Hall of Famer Dean Cromwell, Jordan excelled in track, rugby and football. On the track, he helped the Trojans win two national collegiate team titles and was a member of a world-record setting 4x110-yard relay team. In addition to his collegiate success on the track, Jordan helped USC beat Duke in the 1939 Rose Bowl. He won the AAU 100m title in 1941, and after World War II and a stint in the Navy he became track coach at Occidental College, turning that small school into a national power. After 10 years at Occidental, he moved to Stanford in 1957. Over the next 22 years, he took the Cardinal to a second-place NCAA finish in 1963, produced seven Olympic athletes and numerous NCAA champions. Jordan served as the head coach of the 1968 Olympic team in Mexico City after serving as an assistant at the 1964 Olympics. A successful meet director, Jordan directed two of the greatest track meets ever held on American soil -- the 1960 Olympic Trials and the 1962 USA-USSR dual meet that drew 150,000 fans over two days. Both events took place at Stanford. Known for his prowess as a masters competitor, Jordan set numerous records as a sprinter. He set his last masters world record in the 100-yard dash at the Penn Relays in 1998, at age 80. He posted his final masters world record in the 100 meters in 1997. A member of the USC, Occidental, Stanford and NAIA halls of fame, among others, Jordan was inducted into the National Track & Field Hall of Fame in 1982. He was awarded the Dwight D. Eisenhower Fitness Award by the U.S. Sports Academy in 1999. 2-time Olympic shot put medallist John Godina retires John Godina, at the age of 36, one of the most-decorated throwers in track-and-field history with nine Olympic and World Championships medals to his credit, has announced his retirement. "From the day-to-day challenges of training to the intensity of competition, I will miss the rigors of being an athlete," said Godina, a four-time World Champion and two-time Olympic medallist. "But I am retiring with pride and a true sense of satisfaction with what I've accomplished. I'm happy to have played a large role in the drug-free revolution in my events, and I look forward to continuing a heavy involvement in the sport. " Godina's 14-year professional career began in 1995 with a gold medal in the shot put at the World Championships just months after winning NCAA titles in both the shot and discus. He would repeat as World Champion outdoors in 1997 and 2001, also winning a World Indoor title in 2001. At the 1996 Olympics, he won a silver medal in the shot put, and at the 2000 Olympics earned a bronze medal. Also a two-time US discus champion, Godina in 1996 became the first American in 72 years to make the US Olympic team in both the shot and discus, and his six appearances at the World Championships outdoors ties him for the most by an American male. Twice a Jesse Owens Award winner as the top male track-and-field athlete in the US, Godina was a pioneer in the crusade against the use of performance-enhancing drugs. He plans to continue his volunteer work with the United States Anti-Doping Agency. Godina recently began coaching throwers, including 2007 US runner-up Dan Taylor. Founder of the Whole Fitness Gym and kPilates in Mesa, Ariz., he and his wife, Kendra Jordan, will open a second fitness studio, Karve, in nearby Scottsdale next month. Godina has also just opened John Godina's World Throws Center and John Godina's Center for Track and Field, a 13,000-foot training facility in Mesa for elite athletes in all areas of the sport.
Indoor season heats up with records falling at the 2009 Tyson Invite
In front 4,397 screaming fans, American records for Galen Rupp and Shalonda Solomon Friday night highlighted the 2009 Tyson Invitational at the Randal Tyson Indoor Track Center on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, the third stop of USA Track & Field's 2009 Indoor Visa Championship Series .2008 Olympian Galen Rupp broke the American Record in the men's 5,000m, running 13 minutes, 18.12 seconds in finishing second to Ethiopia's Bekana Daba (13:17.89WL).The previous American record of 13:20.55 was set by Doug Padilla in 1982, four years before Rupp was born. Rupp's performance also was a collegiate record, breaking Suleiman Nyambui's record of 13:20.4 from 1981 and Alberto Salazar's American Collegiate record of 13:22.6 from 1981. 2006 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor 200m champion Shalonda Solomon set an American record in the women's 300m, leading wire-to-wire, to finish in 36.45. The previous accepted American record of 36.67 was set in 2007 by Francena McCorory. Monica Hargrove was the runner-up in 36.85. For her efforts, Solomon was given the Team USA Athlete of the Meet award presented by Visa.
Hasay named Athlete of the Week Jordan Hasay has been named USA Track & Field's Athlete of the Week after winning the 61st annual Mt. SAC Cross Country Invitational Saturday in Walnut, Calif.
Her time is the second fastest time ever posted on the Mt. SAC course, trailing only former Ukiah High standout Amber Trotter, who set the all time course best at the 2001 invitational with a time of 16:16. Now in its seventh year, USATF's Athlete of the Week program is designed to recognize outstanding performers at all levels of the sport. USATF names a new honoree each week and features the athlete on the USATF website. Selections are based on top performances and results from the previous week.
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Stanford Invite 2009 Prep results 2009 USA TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS JUNE 2009 CIF State Track and Field Championships June 5th & 6th @ Buchanan High School (Clovis)
June13th - 17th 2009 at the University of Arkansas . Tickets click here NCAA D2 Track and Field Championships NCAA D3 Track and Field Championships
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If his performance did nothing else, it reminded observers that there is more than one name in the world of men's sprinting. And that in 2007, the top name in men's sprinting was Tyson Gay.
A senior at Mission Prep High School, Hasay won her fourth consecutive Individual Sweepstakes girls race, completing the three mile course in 16 minutes 27 seconds. 
