No love for Maggie Vessey ... ?

[fourjz]

Re: No love for Maggie Vessey ... ?

[quote=4:24-miler]

Maggie Vessey won another overseas 800m run yesterday (18 Sep 2011) at the DecaNation meet in Nice, France, where her 9 points assured USA team score victory over Russia.

1 - 2:00.39 VESSEY Maggie - USA
2 - 2:03.10 FELIX Fanjanteino - FRA
3 - 2:03.80 MACIAS Isabel - ESP
4 - 2:04.07 KREBS Aline - GER
5 - 2:04.86 VOSMERIKOVA Anastasiya - RUS
6 - 2:10.20 BRANDT Mandie - RSA

California Girl.

Cal Poly girl, and Santa Cruz County girl! Go Maggie!

(I have a soft spot for Vessey since I also attended Cal Poly and I am also from Santa Cruz County.)[/quote:2ypiwqsq]

Yeah,I remember Vessey in HS when she was mainly a real good All-state quartermiler for Soquel HS.Great athlete. 8-)

[4:24-miler]

Re: No love for Maggie Vessey ... ?

Yeah,I remember Vessey in HS when she was mainly a real good All-state quartermiler for Soquel HS.Great athlete. 8-)

Vessey didn't run the 800 at Soquel HS?

[fourjz]

Re: No love for Maggie Vessey ... ?

Yeah,I remember Vessey in HS when she was mainly a real good All-state quartermiler for Soquel HS.Great athlete. 8-)

Vessey didn't run the 800 at Soquel HS?

She may have but was mainly a 400 runner.And 200 as well.

[James Fields]

Re: No love for Maggie Vessey ... ?

It's good to see some positive message wording vs. thread title. So here, notably for fourjz and 4:24-miler, are URLs to see (at IAAF website) a nice pair of Vessey photos:

http://www.iaaf.org/news/photo/index.html#62195

http://www.iaaf.org/news/photo/index.html#62158

[mid distance fan]

Re: No love for Maggie Vessey ... ?

Yeah,I remember Vessey in HS when she was mainly a real good All-state quartermiler for Soquel HS.Great athlete. 8-)

Vessey didn't run the 800 at Soquel HS?

She may have but was mainly a 400 runner.And 200 as well.

At Soquel High 400, 200, 4 x 1, 4 x 4 and long jump. Still has county record I think, in 400m and 200m from 2000. Fun to watch!

[fourjz]

Re: No love for Maggie Vessey ... ?

[quote=mid distance fan]

Yeah,I remember Vessey in HS when she was mainly a real good All-state quartermiler for Soquel HS.Great athlete. 8-)

Vessey didn't run the 800 at Soquel HS?

She may have but was mainly a 400 runner.And 200 as well.

At Soquel High 400, 200, 4 x 1, 4 x 4 and long jump. Still has county record I think, in 400m and 200m from 2000. Fun to watch![/quote:krgnq6bz]
Yeah,and judging from the year 2000;she had to run against some great 400 m runners.Specifically Angel Perkins and the great Monique Henderson who set the national record at the state meet final that year in 50.76. :shock:

[jeremyp]

Re: No love for Maggie Vessey ... ?

Vessey has, hopefully, shed her woeful tactics and is a threat in any 800 race, but if she's only a 53+ 400 runner getting under 1.56 will be tough. Since most major races are run at 1.57-1.59 she should be right in there.

[4:24-miler]

Re: No love for Maggie Vessey ... ?

Vessey did run hard in Daegu. From the race video it looks like she ran something like 57 low for 400. She never goes out that hard.

[James Fields]

Re: No love for Maggie Vessey ... ?

For easy internal reference, this thread (started 14 Sep 2011) now includes:

IAAF World Challenge, 13 Sep 2011 -- Zagreb, CRO
1. Maggie Vessey, USA 1:58.64
2. Yuneisy Santiusty, CUB 1:58.70
3. Jemma Simpson, GBR 1:59.59
4. Liliya Lobanova, UKR 1:59.74
5. Malika Akkaoui, MAR 1:59.95
6. Angelika Cichocka, POL 2:00.20
7. Ingvill Makestad Bovim, NOR 2:00.93
8. Anastasiya Vosmerikova, RUS 2:04.18
dnf: Tatyana Markelova, RUS