Marine Corps Holiday Classic 2008

Union Catholic, NJ Boys 4x200m - 1:28.35 US#1 Nadonnia Rodriques (Boys and Girls) 400m US#1, NY State Record 52.83 Dominique Booker (Immaculate Conception, NJ) 24.21 200m - US#3 Wayne Davis (Southeast Raligh, NC) Armory Record 55m HH 7.17 US Leader

Videos Posted: Boys 800m, Boys 4x200, Boys DMR, Field Event Highlights, Girls 800m, Girls 4x200, Girls DMR Over 700 Boys Pictures posted Photo Gallery Many more on the way girls to follow also coming  - Brown Invitational Videos (Girls Mile, Boys DMR, Girls 4x200) pic by wingedfoorfotos.com

A new U.S. record in the girl's weight throw and a stellar DMR between two NTN top-five teams went down at the Brown Invitational Friday, while over in Michigan a handful of great performances occurred.  See those results and others this week, as the last competitions of 2007 took place.Girls Top Performances- Victoria Flowers (RI) sets US Record with 61' .75" WT- Caitlin Lane (NY) wins big mile race in 4:57.08- Leslie Aririguzo (MI) wins tight battle in 60HH in 8.78- Burnt-Hills (NY) Beats Saratoga Springs (NY) with 12:05.94 in DMRBoys Top Performances- Isaiah Ward (MI) wins 800m race in 1:56.00- Motor City Track Club (MI) runs 7:56.22 in 4x800m relay- Steve Crouse (NY) leaps 47' 8.5" in triple jump

Photo by wingedfootphotos.comAtlee's pole vault girls in Emma Dejarnette and Rachael Hawks ventured north for their first New York Armory experience at the Marine Corps Holiday Classic in New York. The meet is scored combining the top two finishers from a team in each event. It was no suprise after Dejarnette and Hawks both cleared over 11 feet in the same meet earlier this month at CNU (which was a first in VA state history) that they would easily win such a meet format. Dejarnette cleared 11 feet to finish second individually, while Hawks took third at a 10'6" clearance to give the Atlee girls a combined height of 21'6".  Video of the Atlee pole vault girls competing at the Armory (courtesey of MileSplit US affilliate site ArmoryTrack.com)

Hempstead’s Lipsey outkicks Brianna Welch of North Shore By Christopher Hunt     Charlene Lipsey isn’t seasoned enough to walk into the 800 meters with an intricate gameplan. She didn’t enter the invitational 800 meters with splits in her head, knowing how fast she wanted to run each lap. The Hempstead junior didn’t map out any surges and certainly didn’t have a finishing time in mind.FULL STORY HERE photo by wingedfootfotos.com 

Pictures from the Marine Corps Holiday Classic at The Armory in NYC, 12/27/07

VIDEO: Khaliff Featherstone, Simon Gratz, wins the 800 at the 12/27 Marine Corps @ NY ArmoryVIDEO: Central Bucks East girls take 2nd in PA #1 time in the 4x200 @ 12/27 Marine Corps @ NY ArmoryVIDEO: Four videos from Christmas City Relays of 4x400 and 55 Hurdles VIDEO: Eight videos from Burdette Classic in field events and short sprints PHOTOS: Photo Gallery of Burdette Classic The start of the big meets in both PA and NY. The Christmas City Relays was host to 7 new meet records including a 12:28.88 DMR from Garden City.  At the Marine Corps Holiday Classic at the New York Armory Khaliff Featherstone, 1:58.09 800, Methacton, 10:33.47 DMR, Central Bucks East 1:44.81 4x200.  At the Robert J. Burdette Classic meet records fell in the boys pole vault, 15-01.00 by Tony Shirk, Phoenixville, and in the boys 4x800, 8:06.13 by North Penn.  Krais was a double-winner in the 60 hurdles (8.68) and the 200 (25.68).  Karen Shump, 46-07.75.  MileSplit will provide on-site coverage at both Marine Corps and Burdette. Also on Friday, at the first of four prelim rounds of this year's Colgate Women's Games in New York, Penn Charter's Elyse Wilkinson posted two strong marks, taking 2nd in the 800 and 4th in the 400. Upper Dublin's Vicky Gocht 5th in each of the same events. Syeeda Gee, Engineering & Science, captured 2nd in the 1500.Photo: Ryann Krais, Methacton, set a meet record in the 60 hurdles, split 24.8 in the 4x200 and won the open 200. Oh, and she ran the 4x400 as well. 2008 PA Indoor Leaderboard:  Girls / Boys

Warwick Valley Boys Win DMR Still rounding into form, Warwick runs 10:24.05 By Christopher Hunt Warwick Valley’s Ryan Florkiewicz knew to keep things in perspective. This was good, for now. They still had cross country legs, he said. They are still trying to remind their bodies of what indoor track feels like. But if they felt that way, his team sure didn’t show it. Mike Fox (3:09.4), Karl Schnabl (51.7), Florkiewicz (2:02.2) and Brad Ackerman (4:20.6) won the championship distance medley relay in 10:24.05 at the Marine Corps Holiday Classic. FULL STORY HERE photo by wingedfootfotos.com