Track & Field and Cross-Country Bulletin for May 03, 2014
Are You Ready for New Balance Nationals Outdoors?
June 13-15, 2014
North Carolina A&T University, Greensboro, NC
Another gathering of the best of the best-. Please read the entry guidelines on our NBNO Information Page carefully. We are accepting only a limited number of first qualified entries into some events: Freshman Mile - 30, Freshman TWo Mile- 20, Championship DMR - 12, Decathlon and Heptathlon - 20.
Be sure to get your entry in early by May 26th to guarantee your 2014 NBNO Souvenir Backpack. Entries received after that date will be prioritized by entry date.The regular entry deadline is June 2nd at midnight ETD.
Its State Meet Time. We'll be covering several key state meets including Florida, Texas, North Carolina and Michigan. Coverage starts this weekend in Florida at the University of North Florida. The 3A and 4A meets promise to be sizzlers with outstanding performances expected from the Krystal Sparling, Kendall Ellis and the Aquinas ladies, Kimani Austin-Reese, Kaylin Whitney, Kendal Williams, Andre Ewers, Ari Cogdell and Rasheed Tatum to name a few. We'll have video interviews, previes and reviews from Steve U, photo galleries and breaking news all on our web site, Facebook and Twitter Follow us!
The final NSAF Select Meet for the season is the Great Southwest Classic which is scheduled for June 5-7 in Albuquerque, NM. The NSAF will provide travel grants to several athletes recommended by the meet management as well as to the athletes in our Javelin and Triple Jump programs. Join us on our website and social media for full coverage, interviews, photo galleries and more.
There will also be grants in July for the USATF Junior National Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Those athletes are determined by the NSAF based on likelihood of making the Junior team. The IAAF World Juniors will be contested in Eugene July 22-27. The USATF Junior Outdoor Combined Events will be held in conjunction with the USATF Outdoor Championships in Sacramento, California on Wednesday, June 25 and Thursday, June 26. Our Junior Performance Lists are updated regularly.
The Caribbean Scholastic Invitational (CSI) usually held in Puerto Rico each summer will not be held this year. It will resume in 2015 when we will again take a team of approximately 32 athletes to the Caribbean for competition.
Chicagoland Throwers Returns. We're partnering agin with 2012 US Olympic coach, former international class javelin competitor and USATF's High Performance Javelin Chair, Tom Pukskys, for the 3rd Annual event. We will provide all travel expenses for 32 high school throwers in the shot put, discus javelin and hammer. We will select the top three finishers in each event from the New Balance Nationals Outdoors plus one at-large athlete for a total of four per gender per event. Funding is made possible through the NSAF’s Performance Clinics and Select Meet program. Athletes will compete alongside professional athletes at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois. on July 12th. Learn more here.
America's Team is almost complete. The selection process for the America's Team (of which the US is a member) for the World Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China this August, will conclude after the 3rd round of trials in South America later this month. The goal of the Olympics is to promote world peace and harmony through sports. We've tried to simplify an otherwise complicated selection process for you along with a ranking of athletes who are eligible for the team through their marks at the two trials held thus far.
A big thanks to the 2014 recipients of the Tony Wells Development Grants. You've done well. Your community projects are amazing and we are delighted that you are paying it forward. The photos you've sending us will be on our Facebook page this week. Keep them coming.
Applications for the Cedric Walker Development Grants are now open and will be awarded in the Fall. Please read the grant requirements carefully before submitting your application and bear in mind that these are development grants and not travel grants.
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