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Nike and NSIC National Meets

Results from Nike and NSIC National Indoor Meets..
(Mar 13, 2005) The results are final from the Nike and NSIC meets this weekend. At the Nike Meet in Landover Maryland, Myles Bradley of NFA claimed All-American honors with two fourth place finishes in the 60m Hurdles with a 8.13, 7.91 and 7.88 series and a 22'10.5" leap in the Long Jump. Teammate Kathy D'Auria ran 2:16.58 to finish tenth in the 800m run. Just missing a top-six finish was Jen Krodel of East Lyme in the Weight Throw where she placed eighth with a toss of 46'-10". She then traveled to the NSIC meet where she claimed 5th place with a throw of 47'9.25". Other top ten finishers at the Nike meet were the Conard Girls DMR team placing 9th in 10:35.04, the East Lyme Boys 4x1mile relay in 10th with a 18:33.53 time and the Ridgefield Boys DMR team placed 10th in 10:49.67.
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At the National Scholastic Indoor Championships in New York, the Hyde Leadership School 4x200m relay team established a new State Record with a 1:29.34 in the qualifying heat. The team of James Nixon, Willie Harriot, Donald Morris and Eddie Daniels bettered the former record of 1:30..45 set by Hillhouse at this meet last year. Hyde finished 5th in the final race with a time of 1:29.85. Natasha Harvey of Career was very busy placing in two events including a third place in the Long Jump with a leap of 19'7.5" and a 6th place in the 60m Hurdles with a series of 8.84, 8.88 and 9.00. Shashauna Stewart of Weaver placed 8th in the hurdle final. Tynisha McMillian of Stamford placed third in the Shot Put with a toss of 41'9.25". Junior Jay Koloseus of Guilford placed fourth in the 5000m run with a fine time of 15:21.98. Other top finishers included Joe Ardito of Naugatuck in the Long Jump with a leap of 21-11 for 7th place and Jordan Thull of East Lyme in the Pole Vault cleared 14'7.5" for a sixth place finish.
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Entry Lists for Nike and NSIC National Indoor Meets Announced...
(Mar 10, 2005) The entry lists for both the Nike Indoor Nationals and the National Scholastic Indoor Championships are now available. Review both lists to see all the participating Connecticut athletes.
Click to View Nike Indoor Nationals Entry List...
Click to View National Scholastic Indoor Championships Entry List...

Other Connecticut Girls teams and athletes entered in the NSIC in New York include:
Amity - Kara Lightowler, LeeAnn Iassogna, Joanna Cambria, Sonia Haerizadeh, Leslie Boppert, Katie Yanigasawa, Celia Keniry, Erin Bellis
Bloomfield - Stacey-Ann Smith,
Bristol - Alasis Griebel
Brookfield - Dara Samuel
Greenwich - Anja Krieger-Redwood
Hopkins - Caroline Walden, Janday Wilson, Portia Smith, Zoe Black
Ledyard - Jourdan Johnson, Tara Case, Chelsea Lebrecque, Leyy Brennan
Middletown - Nora Miller and Leandra Privott
Old Saybrook - Kerryn MacDonald
Salem - Jennifer Krodel
Stanford - Tynisha McMillian
Weaver - Christine Jones, Renee Thompson, Crystal Davis, Sashauna Stewart, Lisa Watson, Sherice Hewitt and Shaena Gray
Westport - Annie Sullivan
Wethersfield - Monique Hodges
Woodbury - Amanda Wheat, Amanda Martini, Andrea Fugazot, Joanne Smith

Other Connecticut Boys teams and athletes entered in the NSIC in New York include:
AI Prince Tech - Sean Arrango, Jayme Ross, Carecca Moore, Damion Noble, Chad Higley
Bristol - Sean Ware
Bloomfield - Martin Manson, John Rosemond, Lloyd Brown, Richard Carter, Khalil Ragland
Branford - Chris Martens, Steve Swirsky
Brookfield - Cammeron Griffin,
Danbury - Bruce Clark, Kieran Frinton, Steven Rochester, Rob Stewart
Darien - Doug Wright, James Wyper
Fitch - Ken Yearwood, Justin Gauthier, Erik Thunberg, Chris Foster
Groton - Erik Thunberg
Guilford - Jay Koloseus
Hopkins - David Arnett, Brooks Udelsman, Andrew Fredrickson, Max Walden, Dan Stone
Lebanon - Phil Griffin
Ledyard - Ian Crandall, Carlos Johnson, Nick Rezendes, Mike Sargent
Lyman Hall - Andrew Pratt, Richard Carter, Chris Hubbard, Chris Bevins
Masuk - Frank Calabrese, Sean Gavaghan, Jacob Wishko, Sebastian Manson
Rocky Hill - Mark Fritz, Colin O'Brien, Tyler O'Brien, Jay Little
Salem - Jordan Thull
Staples - Henry Kaplan, Keaton Cristobal, Will Caffery, Remi Ray, Cameron Gaylord, Dane Lonsdale

Travel Plans All Set for State Athletes to Nike and NSIC National Indoor Meets...
Thanks again to all the coaches who have contributed to the following preview. Ron Knapp - Editor
(Mar 9, 2005) The 22nd Annual National Scholastic Indoor Championships will be held at the New Balance Track & Field Center at the Armory on West 168th Street on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 3/11-3/13.  Events on Friday will start at 9:50 a.m., while Saturday competition will begin at 10:30 a.m. and Sunday’s action will start at 9 a.m. Many of the top athletes from Connecticut will join some of the best high school performers in the country, the National Scholastic Indoor Championships will feature eight national record holders, 13 returning champions and 15 U.S. #1 ranked athletes. More information is available at their website: National Scholastic Indoor Championships...
Career High School will send Natasha Harvey and Michelle Johnson to the Armory. Natasha will be participating in the long jump, 60 hurdles and the 200m dash.  Michelle will be competing in the 200m dash as well.
The East Hartford High School Girls 4x800m Relay team continues to improve as seen at the New England meet last week. The team of Allie Lemire, Joy Osahon, Karina Johnson, Kathryn Vollinger, Tejal Patel, and Nicole Coiteux will look to better their latest school record of 9:45.05 set at the New England Championships. So far the team has met each of their pre-season goals through hard work and sacrifice throughout the season.
The East Lyme High School Boys' team has assembled a talented crew of long distance runners and have entered them in the 4x1mile relay. The team consists of seniors: Matt Warren, John Babcock, and Alex Parulis and sophomore Olin Paige.  East Lyme has also a entered a Distance Medley Relay team (1200m, 400m, 800m, 1600m) of the three seniors and junior Tim Allen, who will run the 400m leg.
The Hamden High School Boys team will be represented by Tristan Medley in the Triple Jump. His best mark this year is 45'2". Their 1600m Sprint Medley Relay team of Lyndon Pitter, Jabari Lykes, Rodney Grant and Frank Brady has entered the meet with a seed time of 3:39.
The goal for the Hillhouse (New Haven) Girls 4x200m relay team is clear -- to make the finals and break the state record of 1:43.46 set by their team in 1993. At last week's Eastern States meet at the Armory, this year's team ran 1:44.38 for sixth place. It was the first time this season that they were able to run their best squad. Scheduled to compete at the Armory in the 4x200m are Shaniqua Burguess (26.1) Tiffany Bromfield (25.89) Ann Marie Clarke (25.24) and Kelly Libert (26.2) - a pair of freshman and juniors. Tiffany is also competing in the Pentathlon and Kelly in the 400m dash.
State Open Champions Hyde Leadership of New Haven take their talented sprint quartet of James Nixon, Willie Harriot, Eddie Daniels and Donald Morris to the Armory. The foursome will take their state leading 1:30.54 seed time to the fast banked Armory track to see if the State Record of 1:30.45 can be broken. Hyde also has entered Nixon (6.43) and Harriot (6.50) in the 60 meter dash. Nixon will also compete in the the 200m race where he already has run a 22.50. Daniels and Morris are joined by Chris Blackwood and Troy Frost in the 4x400m relay competition. Harriott will attend Penn State next fall on a football scholarship and has a personal record of 6.50 in the 55m dash. Nixon has personal records of 6.43 in the 55m, 34.87 in the 300m (flat track), and 22.5 in the 200m -- all school records. Daniels nickname is "Ironman" and has been a strong performer all season, running under 50 seconds for a leg on the 4x400m relay. Morris, in his first year of indoor track, is also an accomplished dancer and choreographer. Frost was a member of the 2004 Class S State Outdoor Championship 4x400m relay team and has run 52.5 split in the relay. Blackwood, another integral part of the 4x400m relay, has run a 51.5 relay leg and is also a star baseball player continuing thru spring season for the opportunity to compete in the national championships.
The Manchester High School Boys 4x800m relay team of Matt Whalen, Brian Wirtalla, Josh Miller, and Scott Perkins take their season best time 8:09.67 to the Armory. Accompanying the relay team are John Redding, who will compete in the long jump, and Marcus Lucas, competing in the Shot Put.
Naugatuck High School's Joe Ardito will compete in the Long Jump at the Armory, he finished in sixth place at the New England Track and Field competition last weekend. His best effort of the competition was 20-11.5, less than his best season effort of 22-01, which he jumped at the CiAC Class 'L' Championship Meet. This is Joe's first season competing in track and field and as a junior he appears to be making up for lost time. In his brief track and field career Joe has broken the Naugatuck Valley League records in the Long Jump and the 300M and has also rewritten the Naugatuck High School records in the 55M, 300M and the Long Jump several times.
The Ridgefield High School Girls Team sends a number of athletes to the Armory this weekend. Competing this weekend in a novel event, the Shuttle Hurdles Relay, are Caroline Davis, Alyssa Treat, Emily Navarro, and Caitlin Arturi. The quartet of Elly Teitsworth, Katie Murdoch, Emily Heaslip, and Leah Rosenfeld will compete in the infrequently contested Distance Medley Relay. Liz Navarro will join Rosenfeld, Teitsworth, Heaslip to compete in the more traditional  4x800m relay. In the individual events, Heaslip Murdoch will compete in the 400m while Open Champion Heather Stephens will compete in the 2-Mile. Stephens' time in the in the 2mile is one of the top ten in the nation this season.
The Shelton High School Boys' 4x800m relay team will be also be competing on Sunday at the Armory. The team consists of identical twins Chris and Phil Padilla, Tom Hope and Ken McDonnell.  The relay team won the LL meet and set a meet record of 8:12.57. They finished fourth at the State Open meet with a school record 8:10.96.  At the New England Championships the team came back strong with a fifth place finish time of 8:11.45. The Padilla brothers and Hope, along with 400m runner, Ryan Rasmussen, are entered in the Distance Medley Relay as well. 
Although Connecticut doesn't feature the Triple Jump during the CIAC Indoor season anymore, Southington High School's Boys team is sending Clinton DePaolo to compete in the Triple Jump at the Armory. A multi-event athlete with bests of 21'1" in the long jump and 8.04 in the 55m hurdles, DePaulo's seed distance of 13.8m in the Triple Jump is a school record.

Nike Indoor Nationals...
The Nike Indoor Nationals, held annually since 1999 are scheduled for March 12-13, 2005 and are organized by the National Scholastic Sports Foundation, Inc. The event, one of three national championships sponsored by Nike, is currently staged at Prince George's Sports Complex outside Washington, D.C. The facility has a fast, 200-meter track, where numerous records have been set. The Bill Bowerman Award, created by Nike, is presented to the coaches of the girls' and boy's mile winners. The top six finishers in each event are named to the American Track and Field Magazine All-American team as well as named to the 2005 Nike Indoor Championships All America Team and receive All America certificates. Coinciding with the meet is the Sprint Summit on Friday, March 11, 7:30-10pm. All athletes are admitted free of charge. This year's summit features 2004 Olympic Gold Medallists Joanna Hayes (Hurdles), Justin Gatlin (100m) and Dwight Phillips (Long Jump). More information is available at their website: Nike Indoor Nationals...
Although the quantity of the delegation from Connecticut to the Nike meet is not large, the quality is top rated and led by State Open and New England champion Myles Bradley of Norwich Free Academy. As of this week, Bradley is still the nation's leader in the 55m Hurdles at 7.26 and is also ranked second in the nation in the Long Jump at 24'2.25". Katherine D'Auria of NFA is also attending the Nike meet to compete in the 800m run. She is the New England, State Open, Class LL, and ECC champion in the 600m, her best time of 1:34.83 ranks her as eighth nationally.
Conard High School of West Hartford will also be competing at the Nike Indoor Nationals when they send their talented squad of senior Heather Bemis and a sophomore trio of Caitlin Cannon, Emma Perron and Molly Fresher to run in the 4x800m and Distance Medley relays. Their DMR State record time of 12:22.26, set at the Yale Invite earlier this season, puts them in the top twelve in an elite group in the DyeStat national rankings. Their 9:40 clocking in the 4x800m set earlier this year puts them in the DyeStat top fifty.  Bemis (800m) and Perron (2mile) are also entered in individual events but will most likely only run in the relays.
Ridgefield High School is also making the longer trip to the Nike Indoor Nationals and has entered their Boys 4x800m and Distance Medley relays and an individual in the 800m run. The State Open Champion 4x800 team includes Kellen Quigley (junior), Marty Gennusa (senior), Patrick Moffat (senior) and Josh Kearns (junior). Their State Open Championship time of 8:06.35 has them currently ranked in the top 35 in Dyestate Elite National Rankings. Competing in the DMR will be Patrick Moffat (1200), TJ Brennan (400), Marty Gennusa (800), Josh Kearns (1600).  The Ridgefield DMR is currently ranked in the top 30 in the Dyestat Elite National Ranking. The Ridgefield DMR has only competed once at the Yale Invitational where they ran 10:41.68. Competing in the individual 800m will be junior TJ Brennan.  

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