2009 USATF: wTJ - Shakeema Welsch w46-11/14.30m

[Jim Rorick]

Welsch has a B qualifier; McCain has an A. So they're both on the team. No one 3-10 has even a B qualifier. #11 Marks has an A from last year. So 3-10 need to get the 14.20 qualifier to make the team (not likely).

[Marlow]

4. there is PLENTY of opportunity! Every stinkin' year we have some very good HS girls who seem to disappear after HS. Are coaches simply not recruiting them? Or are they just turning them into hurdlers or LJers (which IS easier to coach)? It really isn't an orphan event; there's plenty of girls competing in it at all the track meets we go to.

In the Jr comp, a California prep won

Alitta Boyd 43-8w

She's going to USC with Reggie Wyatt. Here's hoping they both continue to improve!

[TripleJump]

4. there is PLENTY of opportunity! Every stinkin' year we have some very good HS girls who seem to disappear after HS. Are coaches simply not recruiting them? Or are they just turning them into hurdlers or LJers (which IS easier to coach)? It really isn't an orphan event; there's plenty of girls competing in it at all the track meets we go to.

In the Jr comp, a California prep won

Alitta Boyd 43-8w

She's going to USC with Reggie Wyatt. Here's hoping they both continue to improve!

There may be opportunity in the sense that some TJers disappear (including boys too), but there's also much less opportunity to even try the event than there could be given the good number of states that don't have TJ at the HS level.

[Marlow]

there's also much less opportunity to even try the event than there could be given the good number of states that don't have TJ at the HS level.

How many don't?! The overwhelming majority do.

[Marlow]

As a Marks Snob, I'd really, really like at least one 47 and a couple 46s, but alas, I fear it is not to be. The plight of Ami wTJers continues to vex me (as do the wJTers and wHTers).

So the Cuban, Mabel Gay, drops in on the Tallinn meet, physically and mentally spent from the WC, and pops a pretty good jump - 48' (14.64).

which is, of course, farther than ANY American woman has EVER jumped.

[cacique]

well, two american women made the final of the HT, so that's not too bad...

[Kai88]

Ashia Hansen the great British triple jumper who had a best of 15.16m was born in the USA but was adopted and moved after 3 months...

So the US has sort of had an American women go over 15m......