POSTED: Wednesday July 22nd 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Americans looking to dominate at Pan American Junior Champs

Contact: Cecile Nguyen USA Track & Field Communications Intern. 317-261-0500; cecile.nguyen@usatf.org

INDIANAPOLIS
- The 2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championship will showcase many of the
top international junior athletes, July 31-August 2 in Trinidad and Tobago.

Held at
Hasley Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the Pan Am Junior Athletics
Championships are open to athletes age 16 to 19 as of December 31, 2009.

Last
month’s U.S. Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championship in Eugene, Ore.
served as the U.S. selection meet for the Pan Am Championships. Eugene featured
some of the top junior athletes in the country and the top finishers will
represent the red, white and blue in Trinidad. This year’s Team USA squad will
look to best the 48 medals won by Team USA at the 2007 Pan Am Junior Athletics
Championships.

Leading
Team USA in Trinidad will be USA Junior champions Chalonda Goodman, Curtis
Beach, Trevor Barron and Jordan Hasay.

Three-time
Nike Outdoor National 100m and 200m champion Chalonda Goodman won the windy
competition at the USA Junior Championships with a speedy time of 11.19 seconds
(+2.8mps) in the 100m, and 22.74 (+2.6mps) in the 200m. Goodman will be a force
to be reckoned with in both the 100m and 200m, as well as the 4x100m.

Curtis
Beach won the men’s decathlon with a meet-record 7,599 points, breaking Donovan
Kilmartin’s previous mark of 7,440 set June 19, 2002. The Albuquerque, N.M.
native was named the 2009 Gatorade National Boys Track & Field Athlete of
the Year and is the first decathlete so honored.

Trevor
Barron of Bethel Park, Penn., handily won the men’s 10,000m race walk crossing
the line in 43:36:38; finishing two minutes ahead of his closest competitor at
the Junior Championship. Barron went on to set an American Junior record of
42:22.79 at the 2009 IAAF World Youth Championship in finishing in fourth place.

2008
USATF Youth Athlete of the Year Jordan Hasay will look to add to her already
impressive resume with a win in the 1,500m at the Pan Am Championship. The
Arroyo Grande, Calif., native won her third-consecutive U.S. junior women’s
1,500m title, with a time of 4 minutes 18.99 seconds.

For more
information on the 2009 Pan Am Junior Championships, visit the USATF website at
www.usatf.org.

Team USA Roster - 2009 Pan Am Junior Athletics Championships

(As of July 20 - Subject to change)

 

Athlete - Hometown

 

Women’s

100m:

Chalonda Goodman - Newnan, Ga.

Amber Purvis - Benicia, Calif.

 

200m:

Chalonda Goodman - Newnan, Ga.

Tasha Allen - Milwaukee, Wis.

400m:

Alishea Usery - St. Louis, Mo.

Diamond Richardson - Desoto, Texas

 

800m:

Chanella Price - Easton, Pa.

Laura Roesler - Fargo, N.D.

 

1500m:

Jordan Hasay - Fontana, Calif.

Taylor Wallace - Klamath Falls, Ore.

 

3000m:

Elizabeth Hynes - St. Charles, Ill.

Emily Sisson - St. Louis, Mo.

 

5000m:

Aisling Cuffe - New Windsor, N.Y.

Sarah Andrews- The Woodlands, Texas

 

10k Race Walk:

Allison Chin - Tipp City, Ohio

Erika Lamp - Milwaukee, Wis.

 

100m Hurdles:

Shericka Ward - Leesburg, Fla.

Raven Clay - Findlay, Ohio

 

400m Hurdles:

Dalilah Muhammad - Bayside, N.Y.

Turquoise Thompson - San Diego, Calif.

 

3k Steeplechase:

Natalie Busby - New Paltz, N.Y.

Alyssa Allison - Festus, Mo.

 

High Jump:

Maya Pressley - Coconut Creek, Fla.

Krystle Schade - Sunrise, Fla.

 

Pole Vault:

Natalie Willer - Elkhorn, Neb.

Shade Weygandt - Mansfield, Texas

 

Long Jump:

Alitta Boyd - Hayward, Calif.

Lauryn Newson - Oakland, Calif.

 

Triple Jump:

Alitta Boyd - Hayward, Calif.

Jessica Ubanyionwu - El Paso, Texas

 

Shot Put:

Anastasia Jelmini - Shafter, Calif.

Laishema Hampton - Ames, Iowa

 

Discus Throw:

Anastasia Jelmini - Shafter, Calif.

Erin Pendleton - Elmore, Ohio

 

Hammer Throw:

Casey Kraychir - Twentynine Palms, Calif.

Elizabeth Rohl - Chicago, Ill.

 

Javelin Throw:

Casey Wagner - Woodside, Calif.

Courtney Kirkwood - Othello, Wash.

 

Heptathlon:

Ryann Krais - Eagleville, Pa.

Rebecca Neville - Merrillville, Ind.

 

4x100m Relay Pool:

Chalonda Goodman - Newnan, Ga.

Amber Purvis - Benicia, Calif.

Tasha Allen - Milwaukee, Wis.

Jessica Davis - Los Angeles, Calif.

Ashton Purvis - Oakland, Calif.

 

4x400m Relay Pool:

Alishea Usery - St. Louis, Mo.

Diamond Richardson - Desoto, Texas

Kellie Schueler - Bend, Ore.

Dalilah Muhammad - Bayside, N.Y.

Turquoise Thompson - San Diego, Calif.

Angele Cooper - Long Beach, Calif.

 

Men’s

100m:

Marcus Rowland - Spartanburg, S.C.

D’Angelo Cherry - Jonesboro, Ga.

200m:

Keyth Talley - Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Keith Ricks - Suffolk, Va.

 

400m:

Tavaris Tate - Starkville, Miss.

Joey Hughes, Jr - Long Beach, Calif.

 

800m:

Joseph Andrew Abbott - Reno, Nev.

Dylan Ferris - San Francisco, Calif.

1500m:

McClellan Fleet - San Diego, Calif.

Blake Shaw - Houston, Texas

 

3k Steeplechase

Sean Soderman - Charlotte, N.C.

Joseph Whelan - Hamburg, N.Y.

 

5000m:

Colby Lowe - Southlake, Texas

Sean Keveren - Brentwood, Tenn.

 

10,000m:

Parker Stinson - Cedar Park, Texas

Anthony Solis - Ontario, Calif.

 

10k Race Walk:

Trevor Barron - Bethel Park, Pa.

Matthew Forgues - Boothbay Harbor, Maine

 

110m Hurdles:

Wayne Davis II - Raleigh, N.C.

Booker Nunley - Columbia, S.C.

 

400m Hurdles:

Reginald Wyatt Jr. - Riverside, Calif.

William Wynne - Gainesville, Fla.

 

High Jump:

Ricky Robertson -
Hernando, Miss.

Erik Kynard Jr. -
Toledo, Ohio

 

Pole Vault:

Jack Whitt -
Norman, Okla.

Michael Thomas
Arnold - Salt Lake City, Utah

 

Long Jump:

Marquise Goodwin -
Garland, Texas

Alex Madkins II -
Oklahoma City, Okla.

 

Triple Jump:

William Claye Jr. -
Phoenix, Ariz.

Albert Johnson III
- Riverdale, N.Y.

 

Shot Put:

Jordan Clarke -
Anchorage, Alaska

Mason Finley -
Buena Vista, Colo.

 

Discus Throw:

Mason Finley -
Buena Vista, Colo.

Matthew Kosecki -
Houston, Texas

 

Hammer Throw:

Justin Welch -
Pemberville, Ohio

Tyler Johnson - Las
Vegas, Nev.

 

Javelin Throw:

Samuel Crouser -
Gresham, Ore.

Matthew Byers -
Witchita, Kan.

 

Decathlon:

Curtis Beach -
Albuquerque, N.M.

Gray Horn -
Gainesville, Fla.

 

4x100m Relay Pool:

Marcus Rowland -
Spartanburg, S.C.

D’Angelo Cherry -
Jonesboro, Ga.

Keyth Talley -
Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Keith Ricks -
Suffolk, Va.

Trevante Rhodes -
Austin, Texas

Marquise Goodwin -
Garland, Texas

 

4x400m Relay Pool:

Clayton Parros -
West Orange, N.J.

Duane Walker -
Compton, Calif.

     

About USA Track & Field

 

USA
Track & Field (USATF) is the National Governing Body for track and
field, long-distance running and race walking in the United States.
USATF encompasses the world’s oldest organized sports, some of the
most-watched events of Olympic broadcasts, the #1 high school and
junior high school participatory sport and more than 30 million adult
runners in the United States.

 

For more information on USATF, visit www.usatf.org

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