Relive the 2014 USATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships!
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Updated July 8, 2014
- Links to Videos of Championships Action
- Spectacular Slide Show of Championships Action from Sacramento Sports Commission Photographer Bryan Patrick
- Capitol Shot Put Men’s Final; Entire Event
- Capitol Shot Put Women’s Final
- News 10 Interview with Michelle Carter
- FloTrack Results and Interviews
- Bernard Lagat 5,000m Win
- Conley/Hasay 10,000m Battle
- Galen Rupp’s 10,0000m Win
- Huddle takes on Rowbury for the 5,000m Win
- Highlights of Men’s and Women’s 100m. Michael Rodgers and Tianna Bartoletta win.
- 2014 USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships Overview
- Day 2 Report from KCRA News
- Is Sac on Track for more Track & Field? by Alice Voisin, courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Day 5: Tarmoh finally earns 200 meter title. by Mark Winitz
- Is Sac back on track for more events? courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Kori Carter wins first national title in 400-meter hurdles courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Sacramento Bee Final News & Notes featuring PA’s Stephanie Brown Trafton’s Return to Competition
- Day 5 News & Notes courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Photo Galleries courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Day 4: Day Four Yields Solid Performances at 2014 USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships. by Mark Winitz
- Day 4 News courtesy of the Sacramento Bee
- Day 3: Huddle and Rowbury Wage Memorable Duel for 5,000 meter crown. by Mark Winitz
- Golden West Invitational Results
- Echo Summit Dedication Press coverage
- KCRA Video: “Paying tribute to Olympic heroes in Echo Summit”
- Mountain Democrat: “Protest duo at documentary showing”
- Tahoe Daily Tribune: “Olympians return to Echo Summit”
- USATF News: “1968 Olympians Return to Echo Summit”
- Day 2: Conley and Rupp Garner 10,000 meter Titles. by Mark Winitz
- Kim Conley wins W10,000m: Press Release from John Schumacher
- Juniors Star in Decathlon on Day 2: Press Release from Fred Baer
- Michelle Carter at the Capitol Shot Put from Joe Davis, Sacramento Bee
- Day 1 – Capitol Shot Put: In Depth Article by Mark Winitz
- Pacific Association Athletes Competing at the US Outdoor TF Championships List
- Californians Competing at the US Outdoor TF Championships List (courtesy of Mark Winitz)
- Sacramento Bee’s very helpful Guide to 2014 USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships
- Event schedule for the US Outdoor TF Championships is posted: Check it out!
- Event schedule for the US Outdoor TF Championships is posted: Check it out!
- Local favorite Kim Conley will compete in the 10,000m. Run the Billy Mills 10K (7 pm, 6/26) and then stay to cheer her on! Entry to the Billy Mills 10K includes a ticket for the Nationals June 26 events.
- Echo Summit Track Dedication to be held the morning of June 27. Press Release
- “Capitol Shot” will kick off Championships… at the State Capitol on June 25! Read more.
- 2-Day TF Champs Tickets Are Now Available
- TF Outdoor Champs to host Billy Mills 10K on June 26, 7 pm, before the TF Champs 10,000m event. Entry includes TF Champs ticket!
- 55th Annual Golden West Invitational will be held in conjunction with National Outdoor TF Championships on Saturday, June 28.
- Click HERE for online ticket sales.
- Tickets are available!
- Official USATF Press Release
- FloTrack.com Report
- KCRA News Report
- Sacramento Bee Report
► Youth XC Profile: Julia Bounds
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Youth XC Profile: Julia Bounds
She Knows How to Have Fun: RUNNING!
By Bob Burns
Her first race was a fun run. Come to think of it, all of her races have been fun runs – even the one where her feet were numb from the cold and her cheeks streaked with tears.
That was the 2008 USATF National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships in Mechanicsville, Va., where Julia Bounds, a spirited 9-year-old from Redwood City, won the bantam girls title in freezing conditions.
“I actually like running in cold weather, even though you can’t really feel your feet,” she said.
Every race is fun its own way. She’s been fortunate enough to win most of them, but even the occasional defeat brings out the fighter in the 5-foot fifth grader, as she demonstrated a few months ago at the Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships in Greensboro, N.C.
“I’ve never given much thought as to why I like running so much,” Julia said. “I just do.”
Now 10 and in the fifth grade, Bounds will defend her bantam title at the National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships in Reno on Dec. 12, assuming she makes it through regional qualifying. That’s a pretty safe bet, and her experience from last year’s race should calm her pre-race nerves.
At last year’s cross country nationals in Virginia, Bounds was a wide-eyed novice who had been running competitively for just five months. She was blown away by the sheer mass of runners – 221 entrants – at the starting line
“There was just this big clump,” Bounds said. “I thought, wow, I’m probably not going to do well. But people started dropping back as the race went on.”
She unleashed a strong finishing kick to win by two seconds. Her father, Jay, videotaped the finish, but the camera was shaking from his excitement.
“We knew she could do it,” said her mother, Norleen. “My husband was shaking and Julia was crying as she crossed the finish line. She was used to blowing people away. It wasn’t an easy race for her.”
It wasn’t as difficult as the 1,500-meter final at the 2009 Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships in North Carolina. In the first 75 meters of the race, Julia was spiked and fell to the track after another competitor cut her off. Norleen Bounds said their video of the race showed that Julia was down on the track for 10 to 15 seconds.
She eventually climbed to her feet and managed to pass nine runners en route to a seventh-place finish in 5:18.55.
“The worst part was, they disqualified me,” Julia said. “Fortunately, we protested and I got reinstated.”
“I don’t know many other 10-year-olds who would have had the toughness, competitiveness or confidence to do what she did,” Norleen Bounds said.
Bounds also placed fourth in the 800 meters (2:29.89) and sixth in the high jump (3-9¼) at the track and field nationals. She turns 11 in March and will move up to the midget division at the 2010 Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships in Sacramento. Her personal coach, Michael Davidson, expects her to continue progressing.
“Julia is a very talented young lady,” Davidson said. “Her potential for growth is tremendous. On the track, she’s very focused. Off the track, she’s very much a 10-year-old.”
“She’s very, very social,” her mother said. “The team aspect is very important to her.”
Julia competes for the Pleasanton Heat but trains on the Peninsula with Davidson. She continues to play soccer for a competitive-level team, though cross country now takes precedence in the event of a scheduling conflict.
“In the future, I might change my mind, but right now I love running,” Julia said. “It’s interesting to see my times drop, and I like seeing my friends improve.”
Jay Bounds, an IT manager for Fox Racing, and Norleen, a certified public accountant, have two children. Julia’s older brother, Jason, runs for his middle school cross country team but isn’t terribly interested in the sport.
When she’s not running or socializing, Julia enjoys playing the piano and drawing.
“I like creating things,” she said.
She hopes to create another memorable moment when she defends her title at the upcoming cross country nationals in Reno. She doesn’t mind that she’ll go in as the person to beat, that her opponents will be thinking about her in the months leading up to the race.
“That’s fine,” Julia said. “I think about the other people as much as they think about me.”
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► Pleaasnton Heat TC at the 2009 JO XC Championships
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2009 National Junior Olympic XC Youth Boy’s Champion Team
Pleasanton Heat’s Connor McCarthy clocked 14:09 to place 10th among 242 runners in the 4,000-meter race, and to help lead the Pleasanton Heat to a team victory.
by Bob Burns
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Their runners were rested and ready for the 2009 USATF National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships. In the final hours of preparation, the burden shifted to the shoulders of Pleasanton Heat coaches Kevin McCarthy and Eric Petersen.
They had to fill out the lineup card. In designating their “A” team for the national event in Reno, they had to choose eight runners from a group of 10 evenly matched runners.
“Deciding the top eight was a tough choice,” McCarthy said.
The problem was compounded when it came to Connor McCarthy, Kevin’s son and one of the top runners on the team. Connor was Pleasanton’s ninth finisher two weeks earlier at the Region 16 qualifying race for the Junior Olympics. Connor’s father didn’t want to be seen as playing favorites.
“You’ve got to be kidding,” Petersen told McCarthy. “Connor’s got to be on the ‘A’ team.”
The coaches got it right, judging from Pleasanton’s decisive victory in the Boys Youth Division (ages 13 and 14) at the Junior Olympics. The Heat scored 60 points to finish 49 points ahead of the second-place Equalizers on Dec. 12 at Reno’s Rancho San Rafael Regional Park.
Connor McCarthy was Pleasanton’s top finisher, clocking 14:09 to place 10th among 242 runners in the 4,000-meter race. Caton Avilla, the team’s sixth man at regionals, was the second Pleasanton runner across the finish line at nationals, finishing 17th overall.
Rounding out Pleasanton’s top five scorers were Aidan Goltra (21st place), Gabe Arias-Sheridan (27th) and Nolan Petersen (38th). Pleasanton’s “B” team finished 12th in the team standings.
“It was really gratifying to win because these boys have worked so hard,” Kevin McCarthy said. “We knew we had a good group coming back, but it takes a little bit of luck to win.”
The Heat is a perennial power in Junior Olympic competition, comprised mainly of runners from Pleasanton and Fremont with an occasional Central Valley athlete mixed in. At the 2008 National Junior Olympics Cross Country Championships in Virginia, the Heat placed second in the Youth Boys race. Connor McCarthy and Peterson were scoring members of that team, and two other Pleasanton runners, Goltra and Brynn Sargent, earned medals at the 2009 Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships.
“Six or seven of the boys on this team have been running together for four or five years now,” Petersen said. “They’ve shown a lot of patience to get to this point, because kids get good in different spurts. A lot of our guys are late bloomers. These kids didn’t start out as all-stars.”
The Heat’s “A” and “B” teams finished first and second at the Region 16 qualifying meet on Nov. 29 over the same Reno course that would be used for nationals. But the conditions couldn’t have been more different. The balmy conditions for the regional meet gave way to a full-blown snowstorm for the main event.
“I was really nervous about the conditions going in,” Kevin McCarthy said. “Bad weather adds a variable that you can’t predict. But it turned out to be an advantage because of our depth.”
Connor McCarthy took Petersen’s advice to go out slower than he did at regionals, and the Amador Valley High School freshman ran a solid tactical race to finish 10th.
“I felt ready,” Connor McCarthy said. “I knew it was my time to step up and help my team.”
Avilla, a freshman at Elk Grove’s Pleasant Valley High School, had also run a sub-par race at regionals. Avilla slipped and fell in the early stages of the national race but kept his composure, working his way through the pack to crack the top 20 and earn All-America honors.
“It was an amazing experience,” Avilla said. “My high school coach made a big deal of our win, spreading the news all over the school. I’m grateful for the opportunity to run on this team.”
Pleasanton placed 10 runners in the top 70 finishers at the national championships. Jacob Schlachte, running on the “B” team, finished 43rd, followed by heat teammates Sargent (45th), Tim O’Shea (60th), Adler Faulkner (67th) and Sean Aylward (70th).
“Our top 10 were very similar in ability and their order changed race to race,” Kevin McCarthy said. “The finishing order of the boys will change, but the team result stays constant.”
Avila is a relative newcomer, in just his second season with the Heat, but his mother, Jerrie, marveled at the team’s cohesiveness.
“I don’t know where Coach McCarthy and Petersen found these kids, but they were all so supportive of one another. It was really neat to see.”
► Pleasanton Heat 2009 Cross Country Meet Results
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Pleasanton Heat 2009 Cross Country Meet Results PA/USATF Cross Country MeetShadow Cliffs Park, Pleasonton, CA October 18, 2009 For more photos visit GentleArc.com.
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Mission Valley TC XC Meet ResultsNov. 1, 2009William Cann Park in Union City
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