ANDERSON, PRIMM MAKE A RUN TO NO. 1 FORMER PREP STARS GET TOP RANKING FROM TRACK & FIELD NEWS MAGAZINE.Byline: KIRBY LEE Special to the Daily News State track champions Jeshua Anderson and Cory Primm won one last race to end their high school careers by earning the No. 1 All-American rankings to complete undefeated senior seasons in balloting announced in the October issue of Track & Field News magazine. Anderson of Taft of Woodland Hills was chosen in the 300-meter hurdles, an event in which he set a national record of 35.28 in the state meet in June to break a 22-year old national record. Anderson, attending Washington State on a football scholarship, also won at the Arcadia, Mt. San Antonio College Mt. San Antonio College (commonly called Mt. SAC; pronounced as the word "sack") is a community college located in the Los Angeles suburb of Walnut, California, next to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona which is just over a hill. Mt. and Golden West invitationals. Primm of Westlake High became the first athlete in 53 years to repeat as state champion in the 800. Primm was the national leader in the 800 at 1:48.63 for the state best mark since 1997. Primm, who is attending UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , was the country's only prep athlete to break 1:49.00 and ran under 1:51.00 seven times during a 2007 season in which he posted wins at Arcadia, Nike Outdoor Nationals at the USA Track & Field Junior Championships. Selections were made by a vote of correspondents by Track & Field News magazine, the self-proclaimed "Bible of the Sport." Primm was among two Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. athletes to earn All-American honors, along with State discus champion Derek Johnson Derek Johnson (born January 5, 1933 – died August 30, 2004) was a British athlete, who was born in Chigwell, Essex. He did his National Service in Egypt before going up to Lincoln College, Oxford to read medicine in 1953. of Agoura. Johnson, who is attending Cal State Bakersfield, had a top throw of 205-5 and placed third in the USATF USATF United States of America Track and Field (governing body for T&F, Race Walking & Distance Running) Junior Champoinships. Conor McCullough of Chaminade of West Hills may be the next area athlete to earn a No. 1 ranking after finishing second in the hammer throw. The Canoga Park resident added the sophomore national record in the hammer with a throw of 243-11 to eclipse the freshman mark that he set in 2006. McCullough culminated his season with a fourth-place finish in the IAAF IAAF abbr. International Amateur Athletic Federation World Youth Games World Youth Games is an international competition among young athletes. Games were held under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee. The first and only games were held in Moscow, Russia in 1998 [1]. References 1. ^ [1] in the Ostrava, Czech Republic in July. McCullough had the best throw in the preliminaries -- a mark that would have placed second in the final. "It's put me in position to be extremely motivated to get a medal next time, to finish out of a medal by one place," McCullough said. McCullough, whose father Conor was a 1984 and 1988 Olympian in the hammer for his native Ireland, finished second in the hammer rankings behind only North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. freshman Walter Henning, the two-time National Athlete of the Year Athlete of the Year
McCullough has already broken Henning's freshman and sophomore national records and is aiming for the national mark of 255-11. "(Henning's records) are my goal and I didn't expect to get them as soon as I did," McCullough said. "It's going to take a big jump in my junior year to get the next ones." USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. freshman Bryshon Nellum of Long Beach Poly, the USATF Junior and Pan-American Games Junior 400 champion, finished second in the boys Athlete of the Year balloting to Henning. Ke'Nyia Richardson, a UCLA freshman from Oakland Holy Names, was chosen as the girls Athlete of the Year after going undefeated in the triple jump for the second consecutive year. The USATF Junior and Pan American Junior champion had the five longest jumps of the year, moving into second on the all-time high school list at 44-6 Illegal 'X-value' for character STYLs voided void·ed adj. Heraldry Having the central area cut out or left vacant, leaving an outline or narrow border: a voided lozenge. here .. She also ranked second in the long jump and third in the 100 hurdles. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Former Westlake High star Cory Primm, left, now at UCLA, was ranked No. 1 in the country in the 800 meters by Track & Field News magazine. (2) Former Taft standout Jeshua Anderson was named the No. 1 All-American in the 300-meter hurdles, in which he broke the national record in June. Kirby Lee/Special to the Daily News |
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