12.31.07
Posted in Invitationals, Championships, Videos, XC, DyeStatCal at 8:52 pm by Administrator
i found this and thought you might like it:
Hey, Cross Country fans!
I have just uploaded about 150 of my digital movies from the 2007 Cross Country season including:
Fastback Shootout
Woodbridge Invitational
Southwestern League Meet 1
Inland Empire Challenge
Southwestern League Meet 2
Mt. SAC Invitational
Southwestern League Finals
CIF SS Prelims
CIF SS Finals
CIF State Meet
Nike Team Nationals
Foot Locker Nationals
To view any of the videos, go to my website:
click HERE
Select the Cross Country 2007 gallery. The movie clips are the images with a “play” button splashed acrossed them and should be first in line ahead of the still images. (Apologies upfront for the clips not necessarily being in chronological order for a given meet.)
If you experience problems in launching and viewing these clips, run an update of the free Quicktime software from this website:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
You can freely save what you want of my movies to your hard drive! Spread the word among your teammates and relatives and enjoy!
I will add previous seasons’ movies in the future as well as track and field footage I’ve shot but never shared. Check back occasionally.
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Donal Pearce
Murrieta, CA
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12.29.07
Posted in Profiles, Athletes, Schools, Videos, XC, Foothill, Runner of the Year, DyeStatCal at 10:42 pm by Administrator
Foothill Star Chris Schwartz Leads
2007 All-State Boys Junior Squad
Boys Selections By Doug Speck
complete story HERE
dyestacal 5 part interview HERE
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12.28.07
Posted in Yada Yada, Profiles, Back in the Day, Coaches, Athletes, Runner of the Year, Photos, Rankings, Cross Country at 11:19 am by Administrator
Runner of the Year: Candace Carlson
North, junior
Had top times for girls from Kern County at the state and Central Section championships
Beat all Kern County girl runners head-to-head all season
Third consecutive first team All-Area pick
Placed first at Kern County Championships at Hart Park
Brianna Diaz
Delano, senior
Won Division II Central Section race to qualify for the state meet
Set Delano course record of 18:11
Was undefeated in East Yosemite League and Central Section
Ashley Nolasco
Stockdale, senior
Became second Stockdale runner in coach Bree Tape’s five-year tenure to reach Division I state meet
Second team All-Area in 2006
Ran 19:08 at Mount San Antonio College Invitational
Cassandra Salazar
Stockdale, senior
84th at state meet in Division III
Ran 18:04 at South Sequoia League championship, beating school record by 1:35
First team All-Area in 2006
Ashlee Thomas
Centennial, senior
Fourth in Central Section Division II race, leading Golden Hawks to team title
Fifth in SWYL meet
Personal record in 5-kilometer race is 20:00
Elizabeth Wittenberg
Shafter, junior
Qualified for the Division III state meet
Finished second behind teammate Cassandra Salazar at Atascadero Invitational and the Central Valley Championships
photo album HERE
girls runner of the year 1984-2006
First team All-Area in 2006
Coach of the Year: Randy Jones, Centennial
A blend of newcomers with veterans helped Centennial win its fifth Central Section girls cross country team title in the 10-year career of coach Randy Jones.
Jones earned The Californian’s All-Area girls cross country coach of the year honor for the third time in four seasons.
“Our boys (team) got one (a Section title) this year, too. It’s been a good run,” said Jones, who resigned as Centennial’s cross country coach but will continue to coach track and field.
Centennial won the Division II girls section title by placing five runners in the top 10. The Golden Hawks scored 33 points to easily outdistance Visalia-Golden West’s 63.
“That was our goal all season,” Jones said of the section meet. “We wanted to win that valley meet. I set up our training for that meet. We tried to peak there and we did.”
girls coach of the year 1987 to 2006
Second team All-Area
Lizzy Baker-Steimer, Centennial
Sarah Baker, Bakersfield
Halie Meadow, Frontier
Natalie Fernandez, Foothill
Ruby Lara, McFarland
Carolyn Haney, Stockdale
Honorable mention
Centennial: Jessica Crow, Kelsey Dahl, Rachel Tiner
East: Sophia Garcia
Garces: Monica Guzman
Golden Valley: Hanna Rocha
Highland: Denise Mercado, Angelina Roman
Foothill: Perla Veloz
McFarland: Corina Garcia
Ridgeview: Jessica Huizar, Yesmin Tanguma
Shafter: Cassandra Carillo, Amy Waters, Elizabeth Wittenberg
Stockdale: Brianne Curtis, Jessica Miller, Amber Nelson, Shelbe Penner
Tehachapi: Emily Leming, Sarah Whitson
Taft: Melinda Magee
Wasco: Alejandra Gutierrez
Carlson put together a dominant run
BY JEFF EVANS, Californian staff writer
e-mail: jevans@bakersfield.com | Thursday, Dec 27 2007 8:30 PM
Last Updated: Thursday, Dec 27 2007 8:35 PM
Candace Carlson proved to be unbeatable against Kern County opposition this season.
Carlson, a junior at North High School, was the dominant girls runner in the county and has been selected as The Californian’s All-Area Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year.
“I’m excited. That’s awesome,” Carlson said after learning she’s been named the top runner.
She is the second North runner to win the honor in three seasons. Amanda Montgomery won in 2005 when Carlson was a freshman.
“It’s cool following in her footsteps,” Carlson said.
Carlson said her best race of the season came at the Oct. 27 Kern County Championships, where she blistered the 3-mile Hart Park course in 18 minutes, 9 seconds.
“That was my best time at Hart Park,” she said. “I felt so good that race.”
Carlson took the lead by the midway point of the race and steadily pulled away. She sped up and crossed the finish line in a sprint.
“I didn’t have any competition (that day), but even when you don’t have anyone to run with, you have to run for yourself,” she said.
Carlson won the Southwest Yosemite League individual title with a time of 18:52 at Hart Park, then placed fourth at the Central Section Division I race at Woodward Park in Fresno with a time of 19:04.
At the state meet two weeks later, her time was 19:28 — still faster than any other Kern County runner at the state meet but a disappointment to Carlson. She had a 19:14 on the same course at the state meet her sophomore year.
“I thought I would do a lot better the last two races this season, but I can’t be disappointed,” Carlson said.
She acknowledged it was difficult running among a pack of runners after often being alone ahead of everyone during Kern County races.
“You’re used to winning to having so many girls around you,” Carlson said. “It’s going to get into your head and break down your spirit a little bit.
“But that happens to everyone. I think I’m getting adjusted to it.”
One hurdle Carlson said she’ll need to overcome is the mental aspect of running at Woodward Park.
“That course is really hard for me, whenever I run there,” she said. “It seems like every time I’m there, I’m facing intense competition, which doesn’t help.”
Carlson said her goal is continued improvement next year, which she hopes will lead to a college athletic scholarship.
“My coaches all tell me I have a lot of potential,” she said. “I’m excited to see what I can do.”
Time-wise, she said she’d like to chop about 30 seconds off her time at Woodward Park while running below 18 minutes at Hart Park.
“I’m pretty excited for my senior year,” Carlson said. “If I can drop into the 17s, it gives me a lot of improvement from this year.
“That was my goal coming into this year, but I didn’t get my times down that low.”
She has taken a break from running in December but said she’ll be back running in January in preparation of track.
“I’ll start by running 5 miles a day, until I need to do some speed workouts,” Carlson said. “Track is different from cross country, of course. It’s hard to say what I prefer. It’s boring running eight laps around the track (for the 3,200 meters). The 1,600 goes so fast.”
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Posted in Yada Yada, Kern XC Results, Profiles, Back in the Day, Coaches, Athletes, Schools, Athletes, McFarland, Foothill, Runner of the Year, Photos, Rankings, Cross Country, Coach of the Year at 11:16 am by Administrator
Runner of the Year: Chris Schwartz
Foothill, junior
First Kern County runner to win Division I state cross country title.
Placed first in 12 straight meets from Sept. 26 through the Nov. 24 state meet
One of only 15 juniors in the nation to qualify for the Foot Locker National Cross Country Championships in San Diego
Alfonso Cisneros
McFarland, junior
Finished second in Kern County, third in the Central Section and sixth at the Mount San Antonio College Invitational
Placed second in Southwest Sierra League
Cody Gragg
North, senior
Took home titles at Wolfpack Invitational, McLane Invitational and Golden West Invitational before winning Southwest Yosemite League
Ran 16:00 in Central Section meet, qualifying for the state meet
Jesus Gomez
McFarland, senior
Finished sixth in Kern County, third in Southwest Sierra League and 10th in Central Section Division IV finals
Placed sixth in Central Section individual meet to advance to state
Oscar Fuentes
East, junior
Second in Southeast Yosemite League in 16:08
Second in Central Section in 16:39
Ran 17:09 at state meet in Div. II
photo album HERE
boys runner of the year 1984-2006
Coach of the Year: Amador Ayon, McFarland
Ayon guided McFarland to its 17th straight Central Section title (20th overall) and a third-place Division IV finish at the state meet.
Ayon said the key to McFarland’s success was a hard-working group of runners.
“The highlight of the season was the whole season. Every single day was enjoyable to me,” Ayon said. “These kids were there every day. My assistant coaches were incredible.”
McFarland placed five runners in the top 10 at the Central Section Div. IV meet. Earlier in the season, McFarland cruised to the title at the Kern County Championships against county schools of all sizes by placing six runners in the top 9.
McFarland had only one senior on this year’s team, No. 1 runner Jesus Gomez, and a solid crop of prospects are in the local junior high. “The cupboard is not bare by any stretch of the imagination,” Ayon said.
boys coach of the year 1987 to 2006
Second team All-Area
Eddie Garcia, McFarland
Arturo Ramirez, Centennial
Angel Moreno, Highland
Talon Reed, Liberty
Gerardo Alcala, McFarland
Marco Perez, McFarland
Honorable mention
Burroughs: Caleb Rosales
Bakersfield: Andrew Ariey
Centennial: James Diller
Frontier: Michael Golich
Garces: Conner O’Malley
Golden Valley: Robert Quintero
Highland: Colin Lewis, Andrew McCay, Thomas Tuner, Jake Van Zandt
McFarland: Eddie Bautista, Marco Camargo, Jose Gomez, Francisco Nava
Ridgeview: Robby Baker
Shafter: Joshua Wittenberg
Stockdale: Michael Bernaba
Tehachapi: Chris Sanchez
West: Tesfa Habebo
Wasco: Asencion Mendoza
Schwartz stepped up on big stage
BY JEFF EVANS, Californian staff writer
e-mail: jevans@bakersfield.com | Thursday, Dec 27 2007 8:30 PM
Last Updated: Thursday, Dec 27 2007 8:35 PM
Chris Schwartz was the first Kern County runner to win a Division I state cross country championship in the 21-year history of the state meet, and that wasn’t even Schwartz’s biggest highlight of the season.
Photos:
Photo by Casey Christie / The Californian
Foothill High’s Chris Schwartz, right, outsprints, Trabucco Hills’ Riley Sullivan near the finish line in Fresno, during the state championship cross country match. Schwartz took first and Sullivan came in second.
“Going to the nationals was my highlight,” said Schwartz, a junior at Foothill High School who is The Californian’s All-Area Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year.
“And I had my worst day ever at the nationals,” Schwartz added, referring to his 37th-place finish at San Diego’s Balboa Park in early December at the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships.
But Schwartz, 17, already had an outstanding season prior to that meet.
He was the dominant Kern County runner all season, including easy wins at the Kern County Championships and the Southeast Yosemite League meet.
Schwartz captured the Division I Central Section championship at Woodward Park, clocking 15 minutes, 31 seconds over the 5-kilometer course.
The state meet followed two weeks later.
With all eyes focused on co-favorites Riley Sullivan from Mission Viejo-Trabuco Hills and Brett Walters from Hesperia-Sultana, Schwartz used a late-race kick to pull ahead and win the race in 15:13, one second faster than Sullivan and eight seconds faster than third-place finisher Walters.
“I was planning to finish in the top-5, and I won,” Schwartz said.
The state meet marked the 12th straight race Schwartz had won, dating to a Sept. 26 triangular meet at Foothill.
Schwartz credited maturity and advice from Foothill track assistant coach Paul Contreras as the catalysts for his special cross country season.
“My track coach from last year (Contreras) helped me with pacing,” Schwartz said. “I couldn’t have done it without pacing.”
Schwartz, a state track meet qualifier last spring in the 3,200 meters, said he’s a stronger cross country runner.
“The further the distances, I’m much better,” he said. “I can’t outrun people. I’m more of a long-distance runner.”
Schwartz calls the late Steve Prefontaine, one of America’s greatest distance runners, as an idol who keeps him motivated, even though Prefontaine died in a 1975 automobile accident, many years before Schwartz was born.
“I know he died before I was born, but I want to catch his time,” Schwartz said.
Schwartz placed seventh at the West Regionals following the state meet, which qualified him for the Foot Locker national championships in San Diego. He was one of 40 of the top runners in the nation invited to the meet.
At the regionals, he out-kicked Sullivan again, “just like the state meet,” Schwartz said, and was the second-fastest runner from California.
He said he was one of only seven juniors at the Foot Locker meet.
“I was kind of surprised to make it,” Schwartz said. “I was the only junior making it from the Western Region.”
Schwartz is already planning to run in the Foot Locker meet next season.
“Next year I won’t be as nervous and I’ll know the course more. And most of the kids who will be coming will be running it the first time, or I ran against them this year.”
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12.27.07
Posted in Yada Yada, Back in the Day, Results, Athletes, Sports, History, DyeStatCal at 8:28 pm by Administrator
High School Track 2008
Jack Shepard’s High School Track & Field!
ATTENTION PREP TRACK FANS!
The 50th Edition of Jack Shepard’s indispensable reference book
High School Track 2008
is now available.
All-time lists - 2007 performance list - all records (national, class and age)
i bought mine and so should you HERE
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12.22.07
Posted in Profiles, Athletes, Schools, McFarland, Rankings, Cross Country at 12:08 pm by Administrator
2007 All-State Boys Frosh Squad
Boys Selections By Doug Speck
Third Team
Marco Perez (McFarland) - Had fine overall year for very young McFarland team that will be back in 2008 with Marco and a ton of talented returnees.
complete squad HERE
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12.21.07
Posted in Invitationals, Back in the Day, Schools, Results, Info, Results, Kern Track Results, College, Track Meets, Upcoming, McFarland, Foothill, Results, BHS, CSUB, North, East, Centennial, South, West, Ridgeview, Garces, 2006, 2007 at 4:00 pm by Administrator
LEE ADAMS/CSUB OPEN TRACK AND FIELD MEET
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2008
2008 results HERE
2008 driller results HERE
2008 photos HERE
2008 videos HERE
last years photos HERE
2007 results HERE
2006 results HERE
INFORMATION SHEET
WARM-UP AREA: Please warm up on the grass area between the track and fence. ONLY 1/4” SPIKES WILL BE ALLOWED. The starter and judges will check spike length Read the rest of this entry »
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12.19.07
Posted in Back in the Day, Running 101, Athletes, History at 7:09 am by Administrator
Modest pioneer of long-distance running
By Matt Schudel
Washington Post
December 18, 2007
Ted Corbitt, a distance runner who introduced ultramarathon races to the United States and was a quiet, inspirational force in his sport for decades, has died. He was 88.
Corbitt died of respiratory failure Dec. 12 at a Houston hospital. He also had prostate and colon cancer.
A resident of New York, Corbitt competed in the marathon in the 1952 Olympic Games but made his greatest mark by organizing running groups, pioneering the ultramarathon and developing accurate methods of measuring long-distance races.
As one of the few elite African American distance runners of his time, Corbitt encountered discrimination on the track and off, but he forged ahead with a stoic determination that earned the respect of generations of runners.
While supporting himself as a physical therapist, he spent much of his time in training, often running as many as 200 miles a week.
He worked with many running groups, including the organization behind the New York City Marathon. After helping design the course for the inaugural New York event in 1970, Corbitt, then 51, finished fifth in the race. His time of 2 hours, 44 minutes and 15 seconds was seven minutes faster than his mark in the Olympics 18 years earlier.
“He’s sort of the grandfather of our sport,” Bill Rodgers, a four-time winner of the New York and Boston marathons, said in a telephone interview. “He kicked off the modern running boom in America.”
In 1959, Corbitt organized the country’s first ultramarathon, a 30-mile race through New York and its suburbs that pushed beyond the marathon’s 26-mile, 385-yard limit. (Similar races had been run in Europe since Victorian times.)
Corbitt won that 1959 race and went on to compete in 50- and 100-mile runs, as well as grueling events in which he ran for 24 hours without stopping.
During his career, he competed in 199 marathon or ultramarathon races.
The New York Times called him “the patron saint of the ultramarathon in America.”
Although he was not a coach and seldom appeared in the media, Corbitt helped popularize his sport as president of the Road Runners Club of America, which he helped found in 1958, and the New York Road Runners Club.
In the 1960s, he was at the forefront of the important but tedious task of accurately measuring the distances of running routes. He helped develop a technique that employed a calibrated bicycle wheel with a counter that recorded each revolution of the wheel.
“Long-distance runners have to be very strange people,” Corbitt once said of his lonely passion. “You have to really want to do it. You don’t have to win or beat someone, you just have to get through the thing. That’s the sense of victory. The sense of self-worth.”
Corbitt was born in Dunbarton, S.C., on Jan. 31, 1919. He was a track star at the University of Cincinnati, where he received a bachelor’s degree.
Because he was African American, he was sometimes not allowed to compete in meets in the South and Midwest.
He served in the Army during World War II and received a master’s degree in physical therapy at New York University in 1950. He spent many years as chief physical therapist at the International Center for the Disabled in New York and taught physical therapy at Columbia University and NYU.
He often ran to his office from his home, sometimes completing the 31-mile circuit around the island of Manhattan on the way. He estimated that he had been stopped more than 200 times by police, who were not accustomed to seeing a black man running through the streets of New York.
Corbitt lamented his poor showing in the 1952 Olympics, when he finished 44th in the marathon, but he went on to hold the U.S. records for the 25-, 40- and 50-mile runs.
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