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albinosprint · Jun 2, 2009

to fall on a indoor track get up and win is just crazy. in all my years of track I've seen alot of people fall down indoors, but never one get up and have a come from behind win. F-ing amazing!that video reminds me of how much I hated indoor track. there is nothing like a non banked 200m track. I can almost feel the tendinitis.

jacknyc · Jun 4, 2009

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OREGON

Sopomore Kellie Schueler defended her state titles in the 100, 200, and 400m. But even better, she set state meet records in all three individual events (12.01 100, 24.54 200, 55.04 400), and was the anchor on Summit??s state meet record 3:55.11 4x400 relay!

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Just saw that Kellie has improved her times this year to 11.89 100m, 23.95 200m (7th fastest in the country), and 54.25 in the 400m (also 7th fastest in the country).
She's a junior, so she has time to improve even further.

We really need to stand up and take notice of Kellie Scheuler.
White American female sprinters are about as rare as they come. But this girl is fast!
She won the 100, 200, and 400 (again!) at the Oregon State meet.
Her times were 11.78, 23.94, and 54.60.
Her best times now are 11.68, 23.69, 54.25. Those are really blazing times, and she is only a junior! Her 100 and 200m are the 2nd fastest in Oregon history. The only person faster than her ran on the US 4 x 100 team at the 1968 Olympics.
She is an exciting talent!
However, the caste system is still in full effect. Her coach, who acknowledges her special talent, thinks she should be an 800m runner! 2nd fastest girl in Oregon HS history, only a junior, top 10 in the country in the 200m and 400m, and she is STILL being encouraged to give up the sprints for the 800m. Unbelievable!!! I am sure none of the top black sprinters in the country are being pushed to do the same.
Anyway, an interesting article about her below:
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090427/SPORTS05/904270383/-1/rssEdited by: jacknyc

albinosprint · Jun 4, 2009

allot of talent! it's a shame her coach is a brainwashed idiot. let's hope they don't wreck her when she gets to college.

white lightning · Jun 6, 2009

Beach is now the greatest high school decathathlete of all time. Congratulations mate!

http://www.dyestat.com//?pg=us2009-Outdoor-Great-Southwest-DecathlonEdited by: white lightning

Jimmy Chitwood · Jun 6, 2009

the fastest female miler in Arkansas history is just a junior.

ELKINS - Grace Heymsfield is strong, tough, fast and smart.

But don't just trust those words from her coach at Elkins, Beverly Mabry. Just look at her track meet results and the junior's ACT test score of 32, which is equally as impressive as her state record in the mile run.

"She's not a difficult child to coach," Mabry said. "That's for sure."

And she's hard to catch. Heymsfield became the first high school female athlete to clock a sub-five-minute time in the 1,600-meter run at the 52nd annual Meet of Champions on May 20. Her time of 4:59.51 broke the previous state record of 5:01.34, set by Julie Jiskra of Conway in 1986 ...

Heymsfield has a gaudy resume - highlighted by three consecutive individual cross country state titles - but has been hampered by injuries during the spring the past two years.

Heymsfield said she tore tissue in her foot as a sophomore and battled Achilles tendonitis this season. She won last week's Class 3A state meet in 5:16.16.

"I didn't get as much work in as I wanted to," Heymsfield said, adding she only ran in four or five meets this spring ...
But she finished with blazing speed, which shouldn't have come as a surprise. Last September at the Elkins Cross Country Invitational, Heymsfield lost a shoe in a mud pit with 2 miles remaining in the 5K. She finished with one shoe on and blew past the field, winning by more than four minutes.

In her freshman and sophomore years, Heymsfield won 15 state championships and competed in the Nike Cross Nationals after finishing fourth in a regional ...

here's a link to more of an in-depth article on her.

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the top two milers on the boys side are best friends. senior Cameron Efurd (whose twin sister is also an excellent distance runner and will be running in college) broke the Meet of Champs record in the 1,600 (4:14.78). Eufurd, an Arkansas signee, broke the previous record of 4:16.70, set by Eric Gross of Mountain Home in 2001. Efurd is also the top 800 meter runner in Arkansas and won the 7A title in the 800 in 1:55.31, while his best friend Caleb Hanson of Southside won the 1,600. Hanson, a UALR recruit, won the 7A title in 4 minutes, 22.60 seconds before getting nipped by Efurd at the Meet of Champs.

the Meet of Champs invites the winners of each event from the seven state meets plus the next five best state-wide times.

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the top overall sprinter on the boys side in Arkansas is a white junior: Southside's Neal Braddy. invery windy conditions, Braddy won the 7A (Arkansas' largest classification) state championship in the 100 meters (10.92) and 400 meters (50.12), and took second in the long jump (21-11.5). he had an off day in the 200 meters, but he has a PR (and school record) of 21.81.

at the Meet of Champs, the junior won the long jump (22-9) and the 400 (49.02). he took 3rd in the 100 meters after a poor start.

StarWars · Jun 8, 2009

Christopher McConnell got 2nd in Massachusetts with a 10.87 100m into a -1 headwind. He is a junior and I think he can get 10.6x this year at the New England Championships Meet. Here is a picture, as you can tell, he's a shorty. He ran a 6.34 in the 55 in this picture.

Jimmy Chitwood · Jun 9, 2009

while i'm certainly not a track expert, i've stumbled across a few of our folks the past few days.

the top high jumper in Kansas is just a junior. Michael Hollembeak has cleared 6' 10."

here he is clearing 6'6" in an earlier meet this year.

Jimmy Chitwood · Jun 9, 2009

Chad Hofkamp is the fastest 100 meter runner in South Dakota (RC Central), as a junior. he ran a 10.85 to win the State Championship.

Rapid City Central's Chad Hofkamp pulled off one of the bigger surprises of the day when he capitalized on a great jump out of the blocks to top Prpich and win the 100-meter dash in 10.85 seconds.

"We were sitting up top kind of across from the start line and it looked like he got shot out of a cannon,"Â Central head coach Dave Dolan said. "After the first two steps he had a stride on everybody and there was no catching him."Â

Hofkamp, a junior, finished fourth at last year's state meet and had the entire field on his right for the race as he was in the first lane.

"I was just sitting in the blocks waiting for the gun,"Â Hofkamp said. "When it went off I just reacted."Â

Despite the great jump, Hofkamp didn't start thinking about winning the race for a while.

"Not until right up at the finish line,"Â he said. "I saw a little flash of orange (Washington's Trevor Gebhart) come up in my screen on the right and I just had to push through."Â

the aforementioned (Zak) Prpich and Trevor Gebhart are also white. Prpich ran a 10.99 and Gebhart 11.00 in the final.

Jimmy Chitwood · Jun 9, 2009

the fastestmale and femalesprinters in Nebraska are both white.
for the boys, Kohlman Adema-Schulte (Millard West). he won the All-class Gold medals in both the 100- and 200-meter dashes last spring. in the State Championships as a junior, he ran a 10.67 100-meters and a 21.84 200-meters and was named the Nebraska Male Track Athlete of the Year.

on the football field this season, his speed was crucial in the Wildcats' run to the Class A state football championship when he rushed for1,436 yards and 16 touchdowns and was named All-State. despite his speed and productivity, he'll be playing his football and running track at Northwest Missouri State.

he's 5-9, 185 pounds, so size "shouldn't" have been a problem ... if he had been darker, anyway.

this year, he was again the favorite to win both races, but he apparently injured himself in the semi-finals, as he ran only a 10.9 in the finals of the 100 and had to pull out of the 200.

on the girls' side, Bethany DeLong blew away the competition last year as a sophomore! however, this year a hamstring injury prevented her from qualifying for the state meet in the 100. however, before her hammy, she had leaped a personal best of 19'5" in March for the 6th-bestlong jumpin Nebraska history. she ran a personal best of 11.90 in the 100 as a sophomore. wow! she also ran a 24.90 in the 200.

here's a link to a track guy's breakdown of Adema-Schulte and DeLong (and some black dude i don't care about) thanks to youtube.<BR fixed_bound="true">

Jimmy Chitwood · Jun 9, 2009

in Iowa, Logan Danko won the 100 and the 200.

Logan Danko came back with two gold medals for Centerville. Danko is the first two-time state champion since Jerod Torrey in 1999. Torrey was the champion in the 200-meter dash and the 400-meter dash his senior year at Centerville High School.

... Danko taking first in the preliminaries of the 100-meter dash to advance to the finals with a converted time of 10.59 which is the second best time in CHS history ...

Danko came back on Saturday to take first place medals back-to-back in the 100 and 200-meter dashes.
He finished the 100-meter dash in a time of 10.91 and ran the 200-meter dash in a converted time of 21.71, breaking Torrey's school record. "In the finals of the 100-meter dash it was typical Logan fashion, coming from behind and winning over Brett Bogaard of Pella. In the 200-dash he dominated from the start,"Â said Coach Jim McCord.

Logan Danko runs away from the competition in the semi-finals.

on the girls' side, Stephanie Nordyke took home the gold in the 100 and 200, breaking the state record in the 200 with a 24.99. despite this speed, she'll be running track at tiny Graceland University.

Stephanie Nordyke was the feel good story of Drake this year. Nordyke, who moved from Creston to Class 1A Lineville-Clio, won the 100 and 200 meters for her school. It was the first ever state champion for Lineville-Clio. Nordyke ran the 100 in a time of 12.32 and the 200 in a time of 24.99, breaking the state record in the 200 meters.

Jimmy Chitwood · Jun 10, 2009

the top sprinter in Idaho is a foreign exchange student from Spain: Bertrand Alcaraz Garcia. he'll be going back to his home country now that the school year is over, but he certainly made an impression in his junior year.

his best outdoor times as a junior were:
100 meters - 10.86
200 meters - 21.79
400 meters - 48.79
110 hurdles - 16.52

if i'm not mistaken, his 200 and 400 marks were the top in the state this year, and his best 100 was .02 off the top time.

he won the State Championship in the 100, 200, 400, and 4x400 relay, going a perfect 4 for 4 at the State meet.

<DIV =story_line>All business on the track
<DIV =story_subline>Buhl exchange student is Times-News 2009 Boys Track Athlete of the Year
<DIV =story_byline>By David Bashore
Times-News writer
<DIV =story_story>When I first saw Bertrand Alcaraz Garcia in athletic competition, it was a bitterly cold Saturday in Buhl, where the Indians were handling Declo in a boys soccer match. Bundled up with long-sleeves, long leggings, gloves and headgear, Garcia scored a hat trick for Buhl.

The exchange student from Cartagena, Spain - a coastal city boasting a similar population to that found in Boise's city limits - cut a flighty, happy-go-lucky figure that fall day.

On the track, not so much: When it comes to sprinting, Garcia is all business.

He wants nothing more than to beat you when he gets into the blocks, and he'll let you know about it with a celebratory shout should he cross the finish line first. He did so four times at the Class 3A state meet, three times in individual races and once as the anchor of the 4x400 relay.

Garcia was always a talented runner, but he credited the coaching staff in Buhl for helping him to that next level.

"I kind of knew how to run, how to work my arms," Garcia said. "But when I got here, the coaches really helped me learn how to use strength and improve my technique. Coach (Andrew) Moretto showed me in the 400 to start fast, then take shorter steps in the curve and really work hard in the last 100 (meters)."

As one Buhl assistant coach told me at the district track meet: "We're sending him back with better times than he had coming here, so we must have done something right."

You can say that again. Garcia said he shaved six-tenths off his best 100 time in Spain, going under 11 seconds, and knocked about a full second off his 200 time.

Garcia said his best time at Buhl in the 400, an event he said he never ran until this season, is the best for all Spanish runners ages 15-17, and his 200 time is second best.

Those placements would almost certainly qualify him for July's IAAF World Youth Championships at Bressanone, Italy, if the Spanish federation accepted them. But the powers that be would rather see his blazing speed for themselves than rely on official times from little ol' Idaho, half a world away.

From Garcia's standpoint, four gold medals are hard to argue with, but it is what it is. If he can arrange to return to Spain in late June - he said his current schedule is to leave in late July -and try to qualify, he could yet compete.

The Olympics remain a dream, he says - too many hurdles to overcome before he can start to think of that as a reality.

Garcia's focus when he returns to Spain, where he runs for the Universidad Catolica de San Antonio Murcia track club, is to keep the balance between studies and track. That balance could lead him back to Idaho, a place about which he speaks with nothing short of the utmost regard.

"The weather is a little crazy (compared to Cartagena) but I love it here in Buhl," Garcia said. "I'd really like to come back, and maybe run at ISU in Pocatello. If I can get a scholarship, I'd love to come back here."

Be it in the Olympic Games or the Big Sky Championships, or anywhere in between, this might not be the last we see of this Spanish phenom.

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<DIV =story_story>here's a link to a news site with an interview of the Spaniard.

Jimmy Chitwood · Jun 10, 2009

from Utah there's an impressive sprinter on both the boys and girls sides...

May 16, 2009

PROVO ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬" Moments after Tyrell Yardley finished running in the 200 meters, the starting line official tracked him down to present the Syracuse junior an unusual souvenir.

Yardley was presented with a shell casing from the starter's gun.

It seemed like an appropriate memento considering the Titan standout used his speed to dominate the sprints and claim a state record on Saturday. Yardley finished the final day of the state track meet at BYU in style ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬" sweeping first-place finishes in the 100, 200 and 400 meters and claiming a 5A record in the 200.

"I've been trying to get a state record all year," Yardley said. "I finally got it. I was trying to get it in the 100, but I didn't, so I knew I had to get it in the 200."

Yardley finished in 21.48 seconds to set the mark. He would have claimed it a day earlier if his time of 21.15 had not been ruled to be wind-aided. Yardley felt confident that what he did once already he could do again a day later.

He also felt determined to complete a sprint sweep that had been expected of him almost since the season began.

"Everybody thought I was going to do it coming in," Yardley said. "If I didn't do it, they all would have (thought), 'He isn't as fast as everybody says he is.' So it was really good to just do it."

Monday, June 8, 2009

Syracuse High's Tyrell Yardley won the prep 100 meters in 10.62 seconds and finished second in the elite 200 meters in a time of 21.17. The mark is the top verifiable mark in Utah prep history.

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<DIV =byline>Tyrell Yardley: Utah Track & Field Athlete of Year
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As a sophomore Tyrell Yardley burst onto the Utah track & field scene with runnerup finishes in both the 100 and200 metersat the 2008 state track & field championships. Coming into the 2009 season few could imagine what the junior from Syracuse was truly capable.

In what has seemed to be his signature event, at the state championships Yardley ran a Utah alltime best 21.15 200 meter. In the final he claimed victory in 21.48. The two best times in state history. Yardley's time of 21.15 ranks as #9 nationally.

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<CAPTION>Utah All-Time 200 Meter Marks</CAPTION>
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<TD>1. Tyrell Yardley, Syracuse, 2009</TD>
<TD>21.15</TD></TR>
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<TD>2. Cal Beck, Cottomwood, 1994</TD>
<TD>21.50</TD></TR>
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<TD>3. Jake Garlick, West Jordan, 2000</TD>
<TD>21.50</TD></TR>
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<TD>4. Gordon Garrett, Grand County, 2008</TD>
<TD>21.59</TD></TR></T></TABLE>

In the 100 meter dash Yardley has been dominant, at the Region I Track & Field Championships placed first with a mind boggling 10.60. His time ranks as the #2 time in Utah state history. Yardley would go on to win the 5A State Championship in 10.75.

<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 width=400 border=1>
<CAPTION>Utah All-Time 100 Meter Marks</CAPTION>
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<TD>1. Brian Hazelgren, Murray, 1981</TD>
<TD>10.47</TD></TR>
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<TD>2. Tyrell Yardley, Syracuse, 2009</TD>
<TD>10.60</TD></TR>
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<TD>3. Aaron Salahuddin, Tooele, 1996</TD>
<TD>10.62</TD></TR>
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<TD>4. Silas Pimental, Timpanogos, 2007</TD>
<TD>10.66</TD></TR></T></TABLE>

A much developing event for Yardley is the 400 meters. At the 5A State Championships Yardley again stepped into the record books with a 47.46 ranking as the #2 all-time time. The 5A state championship race will go in history as the greatest 400 meter race in state history with Yardley edging a tough Jeff Daw from Skyline.

<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 width=400 border=1>
<CAPTION>Utah All-Time 400 Meter Marks</CAPTION>
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<TD>1. Tyler Crow, Clearfield, 2000</TD>
<TD>47.01</TD></TR>
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<TD>2. Tyrell Yardley, Syracuse, 2009</TD>
<TD>47.46</TD></TR>
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<TD>3. Brian Ely, West, 1996</TD>
<TD>47.52</TD></TR>
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<TD>4. Jeff Daw, Skyline, 2009</TD>
<TD>47.75</TD></TR></T></TABLE>

He's a junior with a 3.9 GPA. His hobbies include playing volleyball and hanging out with friends. Following high school, he hopes to run in college. His individual goals for next year include breaking the State Records in the 100m and 400m dashes. His team goals include helping Syracuse High become one of the top track and field programs in the state.
Tyrell Yardley is currently coached by Utah coaching legend Roger Buhrley. Buhrley, best know for years of coaching at Davis High has recently begun building a state program at Syracuse High.

Tyrell Yardley is awarded the 2009 Milesplit Running Utah Track & Field Athlete of the Year.

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<H2>Unexpected rising: Riverton's Haymore now a state record-holder</H2>

RIVERTON ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬" It took a simple announcement for Riverton sprinter Aubrie Haymore to realize just how dramatically everything has changed for her this spring.

When Haymore was called to report to the blocks for the 100-meter dash in the Davis Invitational, the announcer took the opportunity to note she was the state record holder in that event. For Haymore, it still seemed a little bit surreal to hear her name associated with a state record.

Indeed, when she posted her record-setting time of 11.98 seconds at the Taylorsville Invitational a week earlier, it took until that evening for her to fully realize what she had accomplished.

"I wrote down a list of goals at New Year's and I wanted to run a 12.2 in my 100," Haymore said. "That was my goal. And so when I broke the state record, it just blew me away."

Setting a state record offers the most tangible proof of Haymore's dramatic rise from unknown to state-title contender in high school track.

After posting a series of wins at one invitational after another ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬" including a first-place finish in the 100 at the BYU Invitational last weekend that saw her win the event in 12.03 seconds in pouring rain ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬" Haymore has ascended to the top of the list as the state-title favorites in the 100, 200 and 400 meters.
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That refusal to quit served Haymore well earlier this season when an error cost her victories in the 100, 200 and 400 at the UHSTCA Invitational. She was disqualified for competing in five events instead of four, which is the maximum an athlete can compete in. Rather than become bitter over the disqualifications, Haymore gleaned confidence from the fact she had performed so well against top competition.

Having that extra dose of confidence helped her sweep the same three events in the Alta, Taylorsville and Davis Invitationals and propelled her to a big victory in the open 400 at the 2009 Arcadia (Calif.) Invitational.

Haymore's upbeat attitude is infectious.

"It's hard not to be around her and not have a smile on your face," Garlick said.

One thing adding a smile to Haymore's face these days is all the attention she is suddenly drawing from local colleges.

When it came to recruiting, Haymore was virtually ignored a year ago. Now BYU, Utah, Utah State, Utah Valley and SUU are courting her to join their track programs next year.

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Provo Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â» Heading into the first day of the Class 5A state track meet, the goal for Riverton's Aubrie Haymore was to break her own state record in the 100 meters during some point of the weekend.

But instead of waiting a day to kick into high gear, Haymore got going early.

By running 11.95 seconds, Haymore, a senior who's being recruited by virtually every college in Utah, broke her own state record of 11.98 that was set earlier in the year.

"I love the 100," Haymore said. "This is the event that proves you're fast.

"I love running it and I was looking forward to running it today because I haven't had a personal best in a while. It was a fast track, and I was just ready to run."

Saturday, May 16, 2009
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PROVO ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬" Riverton sprinter Aubrie Haymore didn't add to her own state record tally on Saturday. But the senior did just about everything else possible.

Haymore completed the coveted sprint sweep ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬" winning the 100, 200 and 400 meters. She finished the 100 in 12.02 seconds, finished in 24.81 to win the 200 and crossed the line in 55.81 for the 400 title.

Another state record was on the senior's wish list, but Haymore focused all her energy into getting the maximum points she could for the Silverwolves.

"I wish I could have done it today, but I was worn out," Haymore said. "Competing for two days is hard on your body."

Haymore saved one of her best performances for her final event when she overtook three runners on the anchor leg of the 4x400 to help Riverton finish first.

It marked a perfect ending to a perfect season for Haymore.

"I went out with a bang," Haymore said. "That's all I can do."

albinosprint · Jun 10, 2009

great finds! Jimmy, you may be as good as whitelighting with finding track info. I do searches all the time and can never find any good information to post. thanks and keep up the good work!

Jimmy Chitwood · Jun 11, 2009

thanks for the kind words, albinosprint, but i'm not nearly as knowledgable as white lightning. i just happened to stumble across a few names when i had some internet time recently.

but it's guys likewhite lightningand star wars who have gotten me excited about the future of track and field. give credit to them for the outstanding job they're doing.

Jimmy Chitwood · Jun 13, 2009

Matt Anthony is a junior from Oregon who has been tearing up the track.

he won the 100meters in a new Greater Oregon League record time of 10.64. Anthony also won the 200, the 400 and ran a heroic effort in the final leg of the 4 x 400 relay to bring his team back from 50meters down to race winners!

he has personal bests this year of:

100 meters - 10.64
200 meters - 21.92
400 meters - 49.44

StarWars · Jun 14, 2009

Nice finds. Unfortunately, most white athletes are set with their high school records and move on to "real" careers. I bet 1/10th of these kids at most persue D1 track.

albinosprint · Jun 14, 2009

and if they do, the best they will see is the 400m. when it comes to sports, america has lost its faith in the white man!

Jimmy Chitwood · Jun 15, 2009

i posted this in the Mike Myers thread, but after seeing StarWars' post and agreeing with it, i thought it would be fitting to re-post it here.
if i recall correctly, Mike Myers was the ONLY white runner to run in the 100 meters at the National Championship meet here in Arkansas. while he gave a good accounting of himself by making the semi-finals, the lack of white participants in the sprints is really frustrating.

take for example my home state of Arkansas ... while the top overall sprinter is a white junior, he is the exception rather than the rule when it comes to white speedsters in the state. the plain and simple truth is most fast white sprinters in Arkansas don't runtrack (at least not seriously). instead, in the fall they play football and in the spring they play baseball.

for instance, the two fastest official 40 times i could find in the '09 senior class were both held by white kids, neither of whom run track. but they both play baseball. Franco Broyles is another example of the top of my head. he was an incrediblecornerback this year at Fayetteville, but he doesn't run track. he plays baseball, and he'll be playing for the Razorback baseball team in college. while i couldn't find an official 40 time for him (estimates range from the low 4.4s to the high 4.4s), he was heavily recruited by numerous D-I baseball clubs because of his phenomenal speed.

these three guys, among many others, could all possibly be strong sprinters. but NONE of them even go out for track. it's frustrating.

StarWars · Jun 15, 2009

Very true, Jimmy Chitwood. Even the white athletes who do track don't take it seriously. So many talented people play other sports like baseball. Which is fine, but the lack of white sprinters make many people believe that blacks are faster.

As far as the muscles (fast twitch), blacks and whites are equal. We are just as fast or faster in the first 50-60m. In the 100 top speed and the longer legs of blacks might help a bit. But because some like Kenteris and Wariner excel at longer sprints, it leads me to believe that we should be a lot better in the 100m if given enough talent. The 100/200 are the only non distance events in track that whites don't dominate as a race, and even in the long jump, which is dependent on top speed and vertical leap, we are gaining ground. With more white talent you would see whites winning virtually all 60m and less/ 400m sprints, and make the finals and medal in the 100/200. It's actually amazing that the few whites who do track are able to be so good. My bet is they are better than the average black that persues events like the 60/400, and close to equal to the average black who runs the 100.

Here are our best "fast twitch" muscle events we aren't supposed to be good at and their football equivalent (WR = world record):

1. Javelin (relates to QB)-WR
2. Shot put/dicus/hammer (linemen)-WR/WR/WR
3. Decathlon (runningback)-WR
4. High Jump (wide receiver)-best 9 out of 10 or 8 out of 11/ clean WR
5. Triple Jump (runningback/ wide receiver)-WR
6. 50m (runningback)- 4th fastest and 10th fastest ever
7. 60m (runningback)- 18th fastest ever but the top are dirty

By the way from first movement a 6.48 60m dash (Morne Nagel) equates to a sub 4 40 yard dash. Not to mention whites are best in thhe first 20 yeards by a LONG SHOT.

We have also run a 19.72 200m, 10.00 100m, 43.45 400m, 6.48 60m, and 5.61 50m. All with a very small, not exactly cream of the crop sprinting population.

white lightning · Jun 16, 2009

Speaking of Morne Nagel. He is alot older and not quite as fast but he still ran the 2nd leg of the South African 4 x 100 Relay Team in Berlin. I just thought I would mention that as no one commented on it. Great to see him still running in addition to coaching kids.

Jimmy Chitwood · Jun 16, 2009

Texas senior, Bonnie Richardson, wins State Championship team title by herself. Again.

i know she was mentioned a year ago, but i didn't see anything about her most recent feat.thelink goes toan article on this latest amazing accomplishment. it also includes some video highlights of the meet.

some excerpts:

Unbeatable Bonnie.

Although she medaled in just one race Saturday, Bonnie Richardson, the versatile Rochelle senior, defended her Class 1A girls state championship ...

A year ago, Richardson made headlines by scoring 42 points to outscore runnersup Chilton and Seymour, both with 36 points. Last spring, she won five medals, including two gold.

Including her performances this weekend, Richardson boosted her three-year total to five gold medals.

As a sophomore, Richardson won the long jump, was fourth in the discus and sixth in the high jump. The Lady Hornets finished 12th overall with 16 points.

In three meets, she scored 95 points and took 10 medals back home ...

On Saturday, Richardson missed a medal for the first time in two years with a fourth-place finish in the 100. She won second place in the 100 in 2008 and first place in the 200. Her times Saturday were more than a half-second slower than her junior year efforts.

How Bonnie Richardson fared at the Class 1A state track meet the past two years.

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Friday's events

Discus 3rd (121-0) 2nd (126-9)

Long jump 2nd (18-7) 1st (17-4Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â½)

High jump 1st (5-5) 1st (5-8)

Today's events

100 2nd (12.19) 4th (12.51)

200 1st (25.03) 3rd (25.78)

it seems the lack of coaching and being the only girl to run track at her high school has begun to weigh on Bonnie, as her times have slowed. hopefully, she'll regain her hunger when she enters Texas A&M this fall and is able to challenge herself in a team atmosphere with better coaching.

JTJTJT · Jul 12, 2009

Alberto Gavalda Spain. Probably the fastest cauc. HS in world right now.
16yo
10.44 100m PB
21.28 200m PB

Finished Silver Medal at the World Youth Champ. in 200m @ 21.3 Today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PhiSwKz3Lw link of him earlier this yr.

white lightning · Jul 12, 2009

Wow! Another great find and a kid to keep an eye on. Thanks JTJTJT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PhiSwKz3LwEdited by: white lightning

white lightning · Jul 12, 2009

Here is one of him in the 100 running a 10.44 to destroy his competition! By the way. Both of his parents were athletes so he has excellent genetics!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9RnyUzp1vEEdited by: white lightning

JTJTJT · Jul 12, 2009

thanks for the link. He might need his own link here? Watching an interview it seems like he has a personality too.

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