Minnesotans Still Contending at JOs

Action at the USA Track & Field Junior Olympics in Baltimore continues with youthful Minnesotans shining in national age-group competition.


USATF Minnesota Youth Chair Chris Dallager was kind enough to provide DtB with the updates below. 

Wednesday's Action: 

National Medalists:

Triple Jump:

Youth Boy Jaran Roste (Alexandria) 6^th place 11.68m (38’ 4”)

Long Jump:

Intermediate Girl Mia Barron (Park Flyers Track Club/Minnetonka HS)

5^th place 5.44m (17’ 10.25”)

The Rest of the Action for Day 3

400 meter Hurdles:

Intermediate Boy Jon Tollefson (St. Croix Lutheran HS) 26^th place 1:00.73

400m Hurdles:

Young Man Angus Stoudt (Park Flyers Track Club/Minnetonka HS) 26^th place 57.24

400 meter Hurdles:

Intermediate Girl Shaina Burns (Prior Lake/Lakeville South HS)

Qualified to finals with fastest preliminary time of 1:03.95

Intermediate Girl Carolyn Nye (Blake HS) 24^th place 1:09.92

200 meter Hurdles:

Youth Boy Clayton Johnson (Team Woodbury Track Club) 25^th place 27.16

Youth Boy Emmanual Phoulom-Smith (Park Flyers Track Club) did not finish

100 meter Dash:

Sub-Bantam Girl Desiree Ware (Eagles Wings Track Club) 33^rd place 16.22

Sub-Bantam Boy Justin Gleason (Owatonna) 35^th place 15.81

Midget Girl Faith Robinson (St. Louis Park) 31^st place 13.55

Youth Girl Jia Lewis (Eagles Wings Track Club)

qualified to semi-finals 24^th fastest time 12.56

Intermediate Boy Jake Gourley (Track Minnesota Elite/Eagan HS)

qualified to semi-finals 7^th fastest time 11.16

Young Woman Jaryn Pipkins (Real Track & Field/Apple Valley HS) 45^th place 12.87

200 meter Dash:

Sub-Bantam Girl Desiree Ware (Eagles Wings Track Club) 34^th place 33.96

Sub-Bantam Boy Justin Gleason (Owatonna) 29^th place 32.26

Midget Boy Eugene Dixon (Eagles Wings) 48^th place 28.60

Youth Girl Jia Lewis (Eagles Wings Track Club)

qualified to semi-finals 21^st fastest time 25.81

Intermediate Boy Jake Gourley (Track Minnesota Elite/Eagan HS)

qalified to semi-finals 14^th fastest time 22.55

Young Man Jordan Charles (Real Track & Field/Apple Valley HS)

Young Man James Kruse (Team Woodbury/Irondale HS) 46^th place 22.96

Yesterday's Action:

Day 4 2012 USATF National JO Results

200 meter Dash Semi-Final:

Youth Girl Jia Lewis (Eagle Wings Track Club) 21^st place 26.11

Intermediate Boy Jake Gourley (Track Minnesota Elite/Eagan HS) 14^th place 22.62

400 meter Dash Preliminary:

Midget Boy Montrea Talabi (Eagles Wings Track Club)

qualified to semi-finals 14^th fastest time 59.27

Youth Girl Tianna DuCloux-Potter (St. Paul) 35^th place 1:02.43

1500 meter Run Preliminary:

Intermediate Boy Shane Streich (Waseca HS) qualified to finals 3^rd fastest time 4:08.09

Intermediate Boy Matthew Rosen (Bloomington Jefferson HS) qualified to finals 7^th fastest time 4:10.96

2000 meter Steeplechase:

Young Man Kieran Kelly (Chanhassen HS) Did not finish

4 x 100 meter Relay:

Youth Girls Eagles Wings (Chauntel Fleming, Jada Lewis, Chanelle Waters, Jia Lewis) 23^rd place 51.62

4 x 800 meter Relay:

Midget Boys Eagles Wings (Eugene Dixon, Montell Talabi, Markeis Frazier, Josiah Sutton) 21^st place 11:51.82

Long Jump:

Intermediate Boy Andrew Ajaluwa (Eagles Wings Track Club) 23^rd place 6.02m (19’ 9”)

Triple Jump:

Youth Girl JeAnna Miller (Alexandria) 34^th place 9.03m (29’ 7.5”)

Intermediate Girl Mia Barron (Park Flyers Track Club/Minnetonka HS) 9^th place 11.31m (37’ 1.25”)

High Jump:

Bantam Boy Alec Burns (Prior Lake) 19^th place 1.15m (3’ 9.25”)

Youth Boy Jaran Roste (Alexandria) 27^th place 1.55m (5’ 1”)

Shot Put:

Young Man Jonathan Sutton (Eagles Wings Track Club) 42^nd place 12.54m (41’ 1.75”)

Discus Throw

Youth Boy Kieran McKeag (Apple Valley) 16^th place 40.04m (131’ 4”)

Javelin Throw:

Midget Girl Linda Senaphanh (Eagles Wings Track Club) 35^th place 16.42m (53’ 10”)

Midget Boy Josiah Sutton (Eagles Wings Track Club) 39^th place 19.70m (64’ 7”)

Pole Vault:

Intermediate Girl Carolyn Nye (Blake HS) 12^th place 3.30m (10’ 10”)