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.
Julia Bounds of the Palo Alto Lightning Track Club takes First Place at the 2008 National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships
On Saturday, December 13, 2008, at Pole Green Park, in Richmond ,VA, Palo Alto Lightning, provided one of two PA athletes that took home a first place age group medal.
The top 25 finishers in each age group were awarded medals and "All American" honors during the closing ceremonies.
The cross country National Junior Olympics featured the top 20 finishers from each of the 15 regions across the country…"the best of the best."
In Julia’s Bantam Girl age group, 220 girls (age 10 or younger) raced the 3K course in the cold conditions. Julia trained hard and finished her undefeated season as a Champion. Good Job!
Palo Alto Lightning had seven athletes who qualified for the National cross country Junior Olympics: Claudia Denoue (Palo Alto) Bantam Girl, Julia Bounds (Redwood City) Bantam Girl, Dennis Mandutzo (Palo Alto) Bantam Boy, Ben Zaeske (Los Altos) Bantam Boy, Kent Slaney (Palo Alto) Bantam Boy, Romain Hardy (Palo Alto) Midget Boy, Dariya Smith (Mt.View/Los Alltos) Midget Girl.  All athletes were competitive in their 3K races.  Track & field is starting in February so we expect this to be a very exciting season.
Thank you to all of our parents and Coach Michael for your support, patience and confidence. Congratulations to all.
USATF Junior Olympic Cross Country ChampionshipsHighlights
Saturday December 13, 2008
Hanover, Virginia – One hundred and three Pacific Association athletes competed at the 2008 USATF Junior Olympic Cross Country Nationals in which 2,400+ youth athletes had registered to compete and 1,979 finished. Pacific Associations participation is 5.2% of the total number of youth participants which are made up of 57 separate USATF associations across the USA. This is by far the lowest number of athletes the Pacific Association has sent to the JO XC Nationals since 1992. Typically Pacific Association sends about 200 athletes. No doubt our current economic climate has an impact on this situation. Although the Pacific Association participation level is lower than in the past, we are way above the average in all categories compared to other associations in 2009. The Pacific Association had 20% (2 of 10) of the first place individuals, 7.2% (18 of 250) of the individual medalists and 10% (3 of 30) of team medalists. Anyone who finished in the top 25 was awarded an All-American medal. In 2009 the Pacific Association will be hosting the USATF Junior Olympic Cross Country Championship in Reno. May we send 100% of all who qualify and may those that qualify perform at their best!
Bantam Girls
Julia Bounds – Palo Alto Lightning (11:34) 1st place
Priscilla Lee – Umoja TC (12:23) 20th place
Michelle Green – Pleasanton Heat (12:35) 28th place
Bantam Boys
Timothy Falls – Pleasanton Heat (11:38) 18th place
Team Scores:
Roseville Express TC (14th place team)
Midget Girls
Christine Bayliss – Roseville Express TC (11:01) 5th place
Sophie Hartley – Pleasanton Heat (11:15) 13th place
Midget Boys
Samuel Blake – Unattached (10:18) 1st place
Steven Sum – Unattached (10:39) 19th place
Tristyn Martin – Buffalo Chips (10:39) 20th place
Team Scores:
Pleasanton Heat (12th place team)
Youth Girls
Natalie Dimits – Pleasanton Heat (15:38) 26th place
Team Scores:
Pleasanton Heat
(2nd place team)
Buffalo Chips (5th place team)
Youth Boys
Parker Deuel – Pleasanton Heat (13:49) 17th place
Tyler Sorensen – Pleasanton Heat (13:55) 24th place
Greg Waters – Buffalo Chips (13:58) 25th place
Brynn Sargent – Roseville Express TC (14:05) 30th place
Team Scores:
Pleasanton Heat
A (2nd place team)
Pleasanton Heat
B (14th place team)
Intermediate Girls
Corissa Storms – Pacific United (19:15) 8th place
Holly Rankin – Pacific United (19:15) 9th place
Sarah Brandt – Pacific United (19:32) 19th place
Taylor Lawson – Pacific United (19:53) 28th place
Alexandra Choy – Pacific United (19:58) 30th place
Team Scores:
Pacific United (2nd place team – missed first place by
1 point!)
Intermediate Boys
Joshua MacDonald – Castro Valley (16:29) 9th place
Benjamin Eversole – Castro Valley (16:38) 20th place
Team Score:
Castro Valley (12 place team)
Young Women
Catherine Crisp – Pacific United (19:41) 13th place
Alison Motor – Pacific United (20:02) 21st place
Michelle Johnson – Pacific United (20:08) 24th place
At the Pacific Association Track & Field Junior Olympics
Granada High School – Livermore, California
The meeting will take place on Saturday near the start of the 1500m right after the finish of the last 3000m run (at about 10:30).
We’ll set up our 2008 schedule and have the biddings for the September, October and November meets. The first meet we will do the bidding for will be the Pacific Association/Junior Olympic meets and go back from there. Anybody having ideas or suggestions to improve the program and increase the number of participants please bring them up. We will talk about once again renting a big tent with heaters for all of us to use at the Nationals. The Region 14/JOs will be in our Pacific Association area this year.
If your club is going to host a meet I suggest that you pick a few dates and verify those dates with a park before you bid for a date.
Our PA/JO meet will be on Sunday, November 16th.
The Region 14/JO meet (Bantams & Midgets) will be on Sunday, November 23rd.
The Region 14/JO meet (Youth, Intermediate & Young) will be on Sun., November 30th.
The National JOs will be near Richmond Virginia on Saturday, Dec. 13th.
The Nationals for next year (2009) will be in Reno, Nevada.
If you have any questions contact Bob Shor, Youth Cross Country Chairman.
The meeting was called to order
at 10:08 AM by Joanne Slaton-Camargo.Attendees included:
Paul Heglar Reno Tahoe Athletics,
Rosevelt Kent Roseville Express, Adrian Ban Roseville Express, Mark
Morrison Roseville Express, Laura Morrison Roseville Express, Maura
Kent Roseville Express, Melissa Arnold Roseville Express, Silvia Harvel
Roseville Express, Thomas Vincent Athenian Athletics, Arno Brewer Mission
Valley, Tamica Tobar CA Track Club, Carl Bryant Central Valley Roadrunners,
Lee Webb Mission Valley , Keri Jones Langford EPA Greyhounds, Lloyd
Stephenson P.A. Treas, James Moore Flying Jaguars, Kyle Whitmore Flying
Jaguars, Charles Sheppard, Sylvia Jones EPA Greyhounds, Chris Holloman
Reno-Tahoe Athletics, Darrell Hampton Acorn/ Oscar Bailey TC, Nadine
Davis EOYDC, David Lawrence Jr. Pacific United TC, Will Pittman 3M Track
Club, Robert Stone Umoja TC, Deborah Sample Hampton Phillips Classic,
Katina Umpierre Stockton Starz, Lewis Pugh B Sharp TC, Lawanda
Young B Sharp TC, Pope Powell Mission Valley, Yuko Hayjoshi MacCanDo
TC, Eric Stuart EPA Greyhounds, Jerry Pfeiffer Breakens Track, Tony
Williams TWTC, Jeanetta Aldridge Phenom Elite TC, Nola Turnage 100 Black
Wings, Sam Burns Hilltop Speed TC, Curtis Reed Hilltop Speed TC, Domenic
Pacini Hilltop Speed TC, Derek Sample Classic Track Club, Alexander
Hill LSI TC, Chioke Robinson ISC International TC, Bob Shor Santa Rosa
Exp., Maria Castillo EOYDC, Charles Jardins Unattached.
Background checks to renew
membership can start as early as Nov1 to renew and the latest by February
28, 2009.
Coaches would like to find
another program besides Club Manager. We gave them the pros of
having Club Manager which were: You can manage your club plus
enter in meets. A suggestion was made to take a survey of other meets
and see their programs and see if they are easier to use.
It was also mentioned that
there is a problem with officials coaching while their kids are on the
field a suggestion was made that they have someone to cover for them
while they watch their kids and then return to their post. It is not
a USATF rule to have coaches on the field but the discretion of the
meet director. It was also suggested that we create a coaches
box and or passes for coaches to be able to come on the field but that
suggestion was out voted. Rule 144 No coaches on the field.
If a team was to be able to
get 5 plus people to want to become officials they will come out to
what ever the area is and give the test to become a certified official.
Coaches also made the statement
that at some track meet their athletes misses some of their events,
we let them know that is the responsibility of the coach the parent
and the athlete.
Feedback on the binders was
done by the coaches plus additional information was given out to be
added to the binders.
No longer will we be deleting
athletes at the track meet to reduce prices.
Birth Certificate can go to
Tony or Hika until further arrangements has been made.
Volunteers hours for track
meet will be cut down Maria and Debra are working on how long and how
many people it will take to complete each job function.
ROTC group will help with the
PAC Track Meet.
Exhibition events can be held
at a track meet by the discretion of the meet director.
USATF cannot control what a
team does with their funds once they are disbursed to that team.
USATF cannot do anything about
a team that takes a spot and then compete AAU.
Going by the by laws alcomers
meets will not be hosted by our website there is a website that list
all the alcomers meets.
If a meet is geographically
close then voting will be held.
Voting was held for the track
season for 2009, results are as follows:
March 14, 2009 Pacific United
14 votes B Sharp TC 12 votes
March 21, 2009 CA Track Club
9 votes ISC/LSI 18 votes
10/12/08 – Pilcher, Steel Win 2008 USA Masters 5 km Cross Country Championships
GREENSBORO, NC – Tamalpans Brian Pilcher and Karen Steele were victorious at USATF 5K XC Masters Championships held in Greensboro, NC on October 12. Brian Pilcher defeated a crowded field in the men’s 50-59 division (17:08) to win with an age-graded, 87.49 (2nd best age graded score in the meet).
Karen Steele conquered a large and competitive field with first place in the Women’s 50-54 age group at the Masters 5K championship. It took a 20:08 PR (0:17 below her previous best time) to win. Both came home from North Carolina sporting new USATF Gold Medals.
Meeting was called to order
at 11:21 A.M. by Joanne Camargo
Attendees: Joanne Camargo,
Nadine Davis, Maria Castillo, Leon Wimbley, Charles Sheppard, Maura
Kent, Debra Harvey, Bob Shor, Deborah Sample.
Introductions was made by each
board member and job descriptions was defined by each board member alone
with any additional job functions that was added to the board members
job functions.
Additional job functions that
was added to board members job descriptions is as follows: Track
Chair and Field Chair will be responsible for making sure that they
have the equipment necessary for each station or assign people that
can get the necessary items or equipment. Vice Chair will also
be responsible for making sure that the volunteers know their roles
and making sure that the survey is sent out to the coaches and completed.
Maura spoke on the communications
sandwich boards. The cost for the sandwich boards are out of the
budget, she wants to make a proposal to take the funds for the sandwich
boards out of the general funds.
The board agrees to get all
new e-mail addresses that will be associated with each board members
job title. Ex: Joanne [email protected] these changes will be made by Maura.
Thomas Vincent is the new Web
Master.
On the website changes that
will be made is as followed: We are going to try to have it where
there will be one page to verify everything the new added links
are if you hit team roster you will be able to see if the athlete birth
certificate has been verified and who has had a background check done.
Per a phone conversation with
Maura and Irene, Maura stated that Irene agrees with the board for the
changes to be made by Tony Williams concerning the website and the process
that he is use to working with. Maura will forward the email of
the changes over to Irene who will then speak with Tony.
The usage of the title Judge
Tony, the board will like for him to drop the word
Meeting was called to order
at 10:00 by Deborah Sample.
Introductions were made by
each attendee.
Attendees: Joanne Slaton-Camargo,
Debra Harvey Vice Chair, Nadine Davis Secretary, Leon Wimbley Treasurer,
Deborah Sample Track Chair, Tony Williams Membership, Maria Castillo
Officials Chair, Maura Kent Communications Chair, Darrell Hampton High
School Chair, Kenneth Block Field Chair, Beck Klein Race-walk Chair,
Lee Webb Multi Event Chair, Dolton Simmons, Stan Harvey, Sam Burns,
Robert Stone, Ed Hollshwandner, Heather Honegger, Jim Vanden Hevvel,
Elizabeth Weiss, Kim Hines Tyrenda Beautty, Aliya Dibrell, Otis Campbell,
Art Klein, Mark Morrison, Laura Morrison, Roosevelt Kent, J Elliot Williams,
Adarian Barr, Carl Bryant, Mildred Williams, Alexander Hill, Chioke
Robinson, Anthony Camargo, Amber Simmons
Maura Kent went over the agenda
for the 1st half of the meeting, explaining how to do an
Affinity Diagram. At that time each attendee submitted areas of
opportunity to the board for the Youth T&F competitions. Then a
break was called.
Meeting was called back to
order at 11:15 by Deborah Sample.
Once the meeting was called
back to order the entire group reviewed the top areas of opportunities
to determine which 2-4 issues the group wants to work on and was broke
up into 4 groups to work on the 4 topics of concern.
Communications
Field Events
Scheduling
Pre Meet and Meet
Problems
We broke for lunch from 12:00
until 1:00
Groups reconvene at 1:08 p.m.
to continue to come together with action plans.
Groups 1-2 presented their
action plans to address the area of opportunities
Group 1 area of opportunity
was Communications speaker was Mark Morrison. Group 2 action of
opportunity was Field Events speaker was Becky Klein for action plans
see attached.
Break was then called at 3:05
by Deborah Sample
Meeting was called back to
order at 3:25 by Deborah Sample
Group 3-4 presented their action
plans to address the area of opportunities. Group 3 area of opportunity
was Scheduling speaker was Becky Klein. Group 4 area of opportunity
was Pre-Meet- Meet Management speaker was Kim Hines. For action
plans see attached.
Open session to address any
other issues that the groups or attendees would like to discuss at that
time. Some issues that were address at that time are as followed:
Hanover, Virginia – One hundred and three Pacific Association athletes competed at the 2008 USATF Junior Olympic Cross Country Nationals in which 2,400+ youth athletes had registered to compete and 1,979 finished. Pacific Associations participation is 5.2% of the total number of youth participants which are made up of 57 separate USATF associations across the USA. This is by far the lowest number of athletes the Pacific Association has sent to the JO XC Nationals since 1992. Typically Pacific Association sends about 200 athletes. No doubt our current economic climate has an impact on this situation. Although the Pacific Association participation level is lower than in the past, we are way above the average in all categories compared to other associations in 2009. The Pacific Association had 20% (2 of 10) of the first place individuals, 7.2% (18 of 250) of the individual medalists and 10% (3 of 30) of team medalists. Anyone who finished in the top 25 was awarded an All-American medal. In 2009 the Pacific Association will be hosting the USATF Junior Olympic Cross Country Championship in Reno. May we send 100% of all who qualify and may those that qualify perform at their best!
