Ozen's Tony Brown has Olympic aspirations
May 29, 2013
Practically everymajor college football coach's number is in Tony Brown's phone, and they all want the Ozen junior. [...] there's another force at play making Brown's juices flow faster than knowing he's on the cusp of playing football for Alabama, LSU, Texas, Ohio State or which ever school he chooses this year. The Super Gold MVP for boys track and field plans to graduate a semester early in December so he can enroll in college and join a football team next spring for offseason practices. (via Beaumont Enterprise)
High School Athlete of the Week, May 22, 2013 (via Runner's World)
AUSTIN - Canyon senior Arin Rice accomplished almost every goal a high school distance runner can hope to reach and had one of the most prolific running careers in the history of the Texas Panhandle. (via Amarillo Globe-News)
Two legally blind high school pole vaulters competed in state track and field championships this past weekend. (via Education Week - Schooled in Sports)
A number of El Paso-area youngsters held their own at the UIL Texas State Track and Field meet --especially, in the 4A Boys 800 meter. Two out of the three medalists are from El Paso county. San Elizario's Michael Collazo Johnson, the #1 seed, came in second and Jefferson's Gerardo Escapita placed third: Silver and Gold Medals! Hanks High school's Heather Sheetz won a bronze medal in the 4A Girls Discus, and she placed 6th in the shot put. Burges High School represented El Paso strong. The 4X100 team set a school and El Paso record with a time of 40.87. However, that mark only got the Burges runners 4th place against some stiff competition in the state of Texas. Texarkana High won the gold medal. Burges' Keandre Bates medaled in the triple jump, taking home a silver. One of the biggest disappointments of the day was in the 4A boys discus, where a favorite, Parkland High's Annthony Dudley, failed to medal. Unfortunately, he finished in 9th place, after not being able to get a throw off. On the UIL web site, it has him listed in 9th place because of a "foul". For updates on all of the El Paso area youngsters taking part in the Texas State Track and Field Championships, tune in to KVIA ABC-7 at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. This weekend. (via KVIA)
Guyer’s Jalen Hunter, a qualifier in three events, had the top finish of any Denton-area qualifiers on Friday when he took fourth place in the Class 4A 300-meter hurdles and was fifth in the 110-meter high hurdles. (via www.dentonrc.com)
The case can be made that the best jumpers in Texas are in West Texas. And don’t underestimate them based on gender or school size. (via Lubbock Online Mobile Edition)
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AUSTIN - Open the running records books, Amarillo. Quinlin McGregor signed his name to city history Saturday. (via Amarillo Globe-News)
While Faith Christian Academy had won the last two Texas Christian Athletic League boys state track and field championships, this seasons title was a little different. (via El Paso Times.com)
AUSTIN -- Jody Lively left the UIL State Track & Field Championships knowing he at least scored a point against some of the best competition Texas has to offer. (via Mywesttexas.com)
AUSTIN Evan Card can’t quite put a finger on it. But for one reason or another, he just can’t be at his best when he competes at Mike A. Myers Stadium. (via Odessa American)
Two Spring High School athletes will be heading to Austin this weekend to compete in the UIL State Track and Field Meet at the University of Texas’ Mike A. Myers Stadium. (via Your Houston News)
It’s becoming old hat, of sorts, for Oak Ridge’s N’Dia Warren-Jacques and College Park’s Tristen Newman to get to the UIL State Track and Field Championships in the shot put. (via Your Houston News)
ANDREWS A few inside jokes and some playful squabbling may not always include each of Andrews High School’s six qualifiers for the UIL Track and Field State Championships. (via Odessa American)
This will not be some sort of senior-trip vacation for Evan Card. (via Odessa American)
Since Ryan transitioned from the comfortable confines of Class 4A into the daunting areas of Class 5A, the success across all sports hasn’t come as easily as it has in previous years. (via www.dentonrc.com)
Sanger’s Bryce Perry and her brother, Jacob, both competed in the state cross country meet last November with Bryce leading her Sanger team to a championship with her ninth-place finish, while Jacob also finished fifth to help his team to a fifth-place finish. (via www.dentonrc.com)
Three young men will be representing area interests at the UIL Track and Field Championships, which are scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Universi (via Daily Progress, Jacksonville, TX)
Jordan Dowell has one thing he can claim at his final high school track and field meet on Friday. He is one of the top nine shot putters in the state (via Athens Review, Athens, Texas)
Strake Jesuit has built one of the state's distance programs, dominating the boys cross country scene and now equally impressive on the track. The Crusaders will send a pair of athletes to the University Interscholastic League Class 5A State Track and Field Championships on Saturday, May 11, at Mike A. Myers Stadium at the University of Texas in Austin.
By Jack Marrion | Posted: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 11:00 am (via m.yourhoustonnews.com)
A Keene High School junior who started running track in seventh grade and noticed she didnt get tired after everyone else quit, will run in two events this weekend at the UIL Track and Field State Meet at Mike A. (via www.keenestar.net)