The Brophy track team is back from Eugene. Track Town USA (U of Oregon facility) and host Nike was outstanding. All of us - teams and coaches - had a great time. The Brophy team finished in 8th place of the 12 best teams in the USA with approx. 7200 points. 1st place boys (Murrieta California) scored around 7900 points. All of our athletes had solid performances but no one had a PR (personal record). Alex Bishop won the pole vault competition. The Chandler girls team won - they are 2010 National Track Champions. Many pictures can be seen at http://www.milesplit.us/photos/files/1628503%23content Meet results and many more pictures and videos of the track nationals events can be viewed at the runnerspace website below. Take a look at this 60 second video clip http://vimeo.com/12925519 that alum Pete Burr put together. The team will depart for Eugene Thursday at 7:30am and return on Sunday afternoon. You can read more about the event and follow it at http://www.runnerspace.com/NTN
Yes, as noted by Coach O'Neil, we are in this top position because of a few performances after the Arizona state championship meet where we were close to #1.
"While everyone's performances were outstanding, I want to make a special shout out to Harry for making a final push to get us into the meet. Harry competed in several meets after the State meet and it was his final two weeks of training that gave him a PR in both the 400m. and 110 hh that moved us past Mt. View. Nice job Harry!"
The other big event was Tommy Williams going to Arizona meet of champions and improving his 800m time 2 seconds faster to a new school record time of 1:54.4.
Great news - Brophy has been selected as one of the 12 high school boys track teams in the United States to compete on Friday July 2nd in Eugene Oregon for the National Championship. We finished as the number one team in the Southwest Region. Go to this web link http://www.runnerspace.com/ntn and read all about it - the news, the rankings (select boys), and the meet information....
The High School (1st time ever contested) National Championship (hosted and sponsored by Nike) will be scored like a decathlon with each school allowed one athlete per event - each performance at the meet will awarded points. The team that earns the most points that day is the National Champion. No relays. Our participants will be:
100m - Devon Allen
110m HHurdles- Harry Danilevics
400m - Harry Danilevics
800m - Tommy Williams
1600m - Tommy Williams
Long Jump - Josh Dennard
High Jump - James Harper
Discus - Geoff Roxborough
Pole Vault - Alex Bishop
This group will travel on Thursday July 1st to Oregon and return on Sunday July 4th. They will get the opportunity to represent Brophy College Prep in an extremely hyped media event, be treated like kings for their entire stay, and compete to win the 2010 National Championship.
