Humble, TX - While many of the worlds eyes are on Oregon, others have traversed towards Texas, for the USATF Junior Olympics. Names like Trentan Beram, Zola Golden, Hope Pietrocarlo, and more have made the journey, and one freshmen from Rochester, NY turned the eyes away from Cain's gold medal.
Sammy Watson, a key leg in the Rush-Henrietta 4x800m alongside her sister, as well as the silver medalist in the New Balance Nationals freshmen 400m, has just lowered the state leading time for New York by a full four seconds. She posted a mark of 2:06.35 in the finals of the event, in 98-degree weather, to take second place. The mark stands as only a second over the freshmen state record set by Jawuana McMullen of PS 324 in Brooklyn, NY. Her mark of 2:05.35 was set in 1992, and has survived two decades of challengers.
