HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD: DIVISION II PRELIMS: ELSEA MAKES IT LOOK EASY MOORPARK ATHLETE QUALIFIES IN HIGH JUMP.Byline: RAMONA SHELBURNE Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. Staff Writer MOORPARK -- Kyle <noinclude></noinclude> ''This article or section is being rewritten at One derivation of the surname is from the Scottish Highland word caol, 'channel', or 'strait'. There are other possible derivations (see below). Elsea is smart enough not to brag about the fact he has only been doing this high-jump thing for about a year. That might not go over so well with the other athletes who've been training in the event for years only to fall short of the qualifying mark the Moorpark High senior cleared so effortlessly ef·fort·less adj. Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. See Synonyms at easy. ef  fort·less·ly adv. Saturday afternoon at the Southern Section Div. II track and field
preliminaries.
``I don't really talk about that with the other guys,'' Elsea joked moments after he cleared 6 feet, 4 inches on his second attempt to advance to next Saturday's Div. II championship meet. ``I'm still trying to get the form down, actually.'' Moorpark coach Jerry Rohach discovered Elsea on the football team. ``He just had this bounce 1. bounce - (Perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check) An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification (a "bounce message") to the sender is said to "bounce". 2. bounce - To play volleyball. The now-demolished D. C. , so I asked him if he wanted to come out for track,'' Rohach said. ``He's a tremendous athlete. If he'd been here in track for three or four years, he'd be a 6-7 or 6-8 high jumper The simplest form of an on/off switch. It is just a tiny, plastic-covered metal block, which is pushed onto two pins to close that circuit. It is used to select a myriad of functions on a printed circuit board or on a peripheral device. by now.'' Elsea was one of three Musketeers to qualify for next week's meet. Sophomore Darrell Scott For Darrell Scott, the "Rachel's Challenge" founder of this name, see . Darrell Scott is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has written several mainstream country hits, and also has established himself as one of Nashville's premier session ran a 10.76 to qualify in the 100 meters and Nick Karam jumped 44-9.75 to qualify in the long jump. Scott, who made a name for himself on the football field this season, told Rohach that he felt some tightness in his right hamstring hamstring /ham·string/ (ham´string) one of the tendons bounding the popliteal space laterally and medially. inner hamstring the tendons of gracilis, sartorius, and two other muscles of the leg. after the 100 and pulled out of the 200 later in the day. ``I was pretty surprised he didn't run the 200,'' Rohach said. ``His training has gone very well and I think he was ready to run very fast. But he said his right hamstring was tight.'' Simi Valley's Anna Sperry qualified in both the 1,600 and 3,200. Her 10:45.65 in the 3,200 was the fastest qualifying time of the day. Westlake's Cory Primm qualified in the 800 and 1,600. His 4:18.77 in the 1,600 was second fastest of the day. Camarillo's Ted Price was right behind Primm in the 1,600 with a 4:19.00. Price also ran the fastest time of the day in the 3,200 (9:26.77) Dan Scharf of Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. qualified in both the 110 hurdles (14.88) and the 300 hurdles (39.78). Camarillo won its heat in the 4x100 relay when Moorpark dropped its baton in an exchange between the third and fourth runners. ramona.shelburne@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Moorpark High School's Kyle Elsea advanced to next week's Div. II high jump final with a leap of 6 feet, 4 inches. (2) Westlake High's Cory Primm finished with the second-fastest time in the 1,600 in 4 minutes, 18.77 seconds. Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer |
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