The following is a resend of Monday's News Notes. Due to technical
difficulties, not all parties received the original e-mail.
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Thanks to the Simplot Corporation for sponsoring this fantastic track
meet.
I've been to thousands of track meets and have never been to a better
meet than the one put on by Simplot.
I would encourage every high school athlete to compete there, every
track fan to enjoy, and every meet director to
I stand corrected. I realize I was looking at the 2000 NCAA results, not 2002.
Lee
Lee, you best look again.
Kendra Wecker from Kansas State got 6th in the NCAA last year with a throw
of 168' 4, the same distance she threw to win our HS league meet the year
before. I'm pretty sure she is
Thanks to Ken Stone for bringing to my attention the very impressive
vaulting of 17-year-old Kira Costa, Fresno/San Joaquin, in winning the high
school division of the women's vault at the Los Angeles Invitation on 15
February.
Kira's 4.08m (13'4 1/2) places her 59th, and 15th-ranked American, on
Here is what is listed at the Illinois High School Association site:
http://www.ihsa.org/activity/trg/records/eventrec.htm
pole vault
National 13-8, Shayla Balentine, Morro Bay, CA, 2001
IHSA 12-6, Elizabeth Boyle, Winnetka (New Trier), 2001 (finals)
Class A 9-6, Jackie Marquardt,
Sorry, at second look, this 13-8 is an outdoor mark.
Original Message
Subject: Re: t-and-f: WPV--High School Record?
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:53:21 -0600
From: Mike Prizy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Organization: @attbi.com
To: Roger Ruth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC:
Ed's subject line brings up another topic, possibly the dumbest rule the HS
Federation has ever come up with (aside from 1600/3200 and the short-lived
method of determining vertical jump winners by attempts rather than misses),
certainly the most unevenly interpreted and applied.
I refer to the
Jim wrote:
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:29:22 -0500
From: Jim Gerweck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: t-and-f: Futility, absurdity
CUT
But the worst is the timing of the penalty for wearing jewelry,
disqualification from the event. More often than I'd care to note, including
this past weekend's
MEMO: February 18, 2003
TO: U.S. Athletics Media
FROM: Tom Surber (317) 261-0500 x317
Media Information Manager
USA Track Field
SUBJECT 2003 USA Indoor Championships Media Accreditation
MEDIA ADVISORY
USA Indoor TF Championships Credentialing
I say it doesn't have a chance. Hell, right now the Olys are about
the best thing NBC has going on, sports-wise. The closest thing they
have to a major sport contract is the Arena Football League. They'll
put a gun to the IOC's head and say, Now just put down that mouse
and back slowly away
I just saw in SI that there will be 806 hours of coverage of the
Olympics by NBC and all related networks. Given that I am pretty sure
that that is more hours than the Olympics lasts, start to finish-nights
included, you would think that there would be a a bit of track coverage.
Here's hoping
3200? Is that a track event?
malmo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lee Nichols
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 4:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: t-and-f: Futility, absurdity
To wit, earrings, chains, bracelets are all
The only people who'd watch it on the 'net in this country are the hard-core
individual sport geeks- like us tf nuts.
An tiny audience which NBC says it doesn't target anyway. It's
after the housewives and soap opera freeks who drive advertising
ratings. (the same people who watch ice skating).
Dear Listers,
Seeing Seneca Lassiter on TV at the Tyson Indoor triggered something in my
memory. Didn't USATF announce last year that they were going to
investigate the circumstances involving his rabbiting at the World Cup? I
don't recall seeing any final announcement on that.
Perhaps my
A former roommate of mine and friend will be embarking on crazy mishaps
and wacky adventures starting this coming monday as they run across the
United States.
Please check out the website www.runtheusa.com and any support would be
great
Thanks
James Osborn
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Hello to
gee, maybe we should just quit publishing. From January TFN:
Lassiter Discipline Case In The Works
Given the weeks (months) of silence after the World Cup relative to miler
Seneca Lassiter¹s having upset American fans and officials with his ³pacing
job² for Bernard Lagat in Madrid, there were
I wonder if four of Kenya's best 1500m runners' times over a similar
span of time ('97-00) would not have left the esteemed UK group
gasping for air. Ngeny, 3:28.12; Lagat, 3:28.51; Komen, 3.29.46;
Rotich 3.29.91.
Tom Plumb
Sacramento
Jim Gerweck, Runnng Times, wrote: What I would have loved
In a message dated 2/18/2003 5:38:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, Chas. L. Shaffer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dear Listers,
Seeing Seneca Lassiter on TV at the Tyson Indoor triggered something in my
memory. Didn't USATF announce last year that they were going to
investigate the circumstances
Costa set an indoor high school girls record of 13-4.5, beating Samantha
Shepard's 2002 record by one quarter inch. The outdoor record is 13-8 by
Shayla Ballentine at the California state meet in 2001.
John Dye [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DyeStat - the internet home of high school track
www.dyestat.com
Maybe it's time for the USATF to open up? No one has ever had faith in
secret tribunals. Why does our federation persist with the notion that
it's a good idea?
malmo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of ghill
Not so. A grievance has been
Rueful it is! 3200. Yeeech! Brought to you by those who are educating
your children.
malmo
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lee Nichols
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 5:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: t-and-f: Futility,
MEMO: February 18, 2003
TO: U.S. Athletics Media
FROM: Jill M. Geer
USATF Director of Communications
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
317-261-0500 x360
http://www.usatf.org
SUBJECT:Media Teleconference
Gail
The reason nobody goes for the World Record is because there isn't one.
Not enough competition in the event for the IAAF to justify giving it WR
status. That race in London is the only women's 4x15 outside of the U.S.
Relay circuit I can ever recall being run.
Wisconsin's averaging about 4:21 is
Note that it just says kept secret going in.
I'm not really hip to the inner workings of USATF proceedings (nor do I want
to be!), but as it was explained to me, the idea is to prevent the accused
from lobbying their panel in advance. Given the incestuous nature of the
sport, that may not be a
One of the possible 'penalties' is suspension for some
period of time from U.S. teams- which could run the
gamut from Pan Am Games through World Cup, World Champs,
and even Olympic Games, depending on how long the
penalty is.
Such a penalty would not prevent him from 'earning a
living' in
Malmo:
It's by no means a secret tribunal. The people from whom the NABR are
chosen all are listed, together, in the USATF directory. (Several are chosen
from the NABR pool for each grievance that requires an NABR.) We have openly
discussed the process many times in the months since Madrid.
In addition to Mike Prizy's note on this question, posted to t-and-f, I
received this further information, off-list, from Jack Shepard. I
appreciate his permission to forward it to the list:
After Kira cleared the record 13-4 1/2 on her third attempt, she had the bar
raised to 13-6 1/2 and took
pay no attention to that moron who just posted under my name about the 30K
record. The 1:21:34 for Radcliffe was at 25K, not 30K. Doh!
gh
Note Matsumiya's 1:28:36 WR for road 30K this past weekend. In her
marathon WR, Radcliffe went through 30K in 1:21:34.
USATF release post-Madrid said the punishment could include, a written
reprimand, discontinuation of financial benefits from USATF and the USOC,
and other more severe penalties.
I can't say it with 100% certainty, but I have been told that USATF has the
power to suspend from all kinds of
Peter Maher had the world record at 25km at one point in over 1:15 and
all kinds of people had split faster than that before and have since.
Regards,
martin
ghill wrote:
Note Matsumiya's 1:28:36 WR for road 30K this past weekend. In her
marathon WR, Radcliffe went through 30K in 1:21:34.
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Message text written by Lee Nichols
I once was flagged by an official seconds before the 3200 start for
wearing a running watch,
What were you supposed to wear--a watch that wasn't running? :-)
Message text written by ghill
USATF release post-Madrid said the punishment could include, a written
reprimand, discontinuation of financial benefits from USATF and the USOC,
and other more severe penalties.
I can't say it with 100% certainty, but I have been told that USATF has the
power to
G. Hill (the apostle Paul of T F?) wrote:
Note Matsumiya's 1:28:36 WR for road 30K this past weekend. In her
marathon WR, Radcliffe went through 30K in 1:21:34.
A most under appreciated athlete... I hope she's getting her fair share of
UK dollars, because the US doesn't acknowledge her
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