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JULY 14th 2010

USA Jr Nationals here we come! ****** Roddy Dash, Ryan Gates and Tucker Weathers all qualified in the Hammer for the Nations largest meet for there age group. The event will take place at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa on June 23-27th. They have performed awesome all year long to put them in this position. We wish them great success as they will battle it out with the top athletes in the country.

Individually our throwers performered awesome producing an amazing 91 points and in the process most all of them achieved personal best. Notables: Casey Ballinger threw 172'5 in the hammer****Tucker Weathers 50'7 in the Shot put****Dan Marwin 159 in the hammer****AJ 48'6 in the Shot Put and Ryan Gates 45'1 in the Shot put for all personal best. Awesome job guys******* My women throwers done very well with some personal best by Mahlynn Liotard in the hammer of 114'9 and the Discus 112'6. Elsa 128 in the Discus and Kristen 36'8 in the shot put. Well done ladies!

< Roddy Dash

Shot Put - 48'10 (PR)

Ryan Gates >

Shot Put - 42'9

< Tucker Weathers

Shot Put - 48'0

California Relays

3-19-2010

California Relays is the host of one of the State’s top JuCo meets. Our team came into this event a little beat up from a grueling couple of weeks of training. With that being said, they still managed to have a fantastic day with numerous PR’s produced throughout the day by many of our athletes.

I will start off with Ryan Gates who had a great day with two massive PR’s in the Hammer and Discus. His hammer PR starting out the day was 146’ and when it was all said and done he left with a huge NorCal Qualifying throw of 158’9. His discus showed the same out come with a 11 foot PR of 138’10. He also threw the shot a new PR of 40’9.

Tucker Weathers had a similar throw throwing a 11 foot PR in the hammer with a toss of 160’2 to also qualify him for the automation mark for NorCals. Tucker threw the discus 136’8 for a new PR, and the shot he elevated his PR to 48’0 feet to take the win in that event.

Casey Ballinger showed his resilience by overcoming and adapting to us adding another turn to his throw by producing a PR of 166’10 to tie for 1st in the hammer.

Roddy Dash had a down week in the hammer and discus, but he definitely saved the best for last with a new PR in the shot of 47’7.

Aurelio AJ Duenas also had a slow day in the hammer, but managed to make something happen in the Disc with a near PR throw of 127 and shot 42’9.

Elsa Gutierrez pulled out an awesome throw in the hammer just missing a PR with a throw of 153’5. She had a tough day in the shot and disc.

Lauren Beavers had a great day in the hammer with a huge 9 foot PR. She managed to stay consistent in the other events to end her weekend on a positive note.

This is what makes all the hard work payoff…Good Times!!!

March 12th 2010:

We hosted the 5th Annual Jack Albiani Invitational here at MJC. At 9am it appeared that we were looking to have a great day, then the clouds came in around the noon hour and dumped rain on us. This lasted the remainder of the afternoon until the conclusion of the last event. Despite the bad weather our throwers did well by winning the Men’s and Women’s Hammer and women’s Discus.

We have a short week this week as we leave Thursday down south to the California Relays. This event will have the top Collegiate throwers in the California Juco system and will produce great competition for our athletes. Until next week!

February 27th 2010:

We had some great performances once again this week as our throwers are starting to see and enjoy all the hard work they have been putting in. Aurelio "AJ" Duenas started off the day with a State leading throw in the hammer by throwing 176 feet to place him on the MJC all-time list. Aj also threw the shot a PR distance of 43'9 to top of a great day. Freshman Roddy Dash launched a great throw in the hammer 174'5 to place in number two on the State list behind Aj...this throw qualified Roddy for the USATF Jr Nationals, which are held in June in Des Moines, Iowa.

He also, threw the shot a PR distance of 44'10. Casey had another consistent performance all around throwing hammer 155+, shot 37+ and the discus 121'7 for a PR. Tucker produced a three foot PR in the hammer throwing 149'9 to keep him climbing the state rankings. He threw the shot 43+ and the discus 127'5. Ryan Gates also had a huge PR in the hammer going from 140' to 146'4 to keep him progressing nicely up the rankings. he threw the shot 37+ and the discus 125+.

Dan came in with a PR of 117 from the previous week and left this week with a huge 10 foot PR of 127+ after only 4 weeks of ever throwing anything. he also had a nice PR in the Jav of 144+. Our hammer thrower/Pole Vaulter Ryan Green threw 92+ for PR as well and PV 13'7.

Elsa threw the hammer 141+, 29+ in the shot and 118 in the discus. Mahlynn had another solid week as she threw the hammer 108+, shot 29+ and the discus in the 90's. Lauren hit a huge PR in the hammer throwing 88+ improving 8 feet from the previous week. Her shot was 28+ and discus was 85+. Andrea was a little under the weather this week and was working hard to overcome it as she pushed thru the hammer with a throw of 70+.

Hats off to the crew for a wonderful job of throwing this week. Stay focused and keep working hard as it will all pay off at the end.

February 13th 2010

we travelled to Stanislaus State All-Comers meet, which is just down the road from Modesto. We had some fantastic throws from our women’s side with Elsa (Big E) throwing the hammer 153’9 to place her second on the all-time school record list, as well as put her on top of the state leader list…she also threw 29+ in the shot and 121+ in the discus.

Mahlynn also produced a great throw in the hammer throwing 112’2, which was a 10 foot PR…we progressed her to two turns this week as she is starting to feel the event much better now…she also threw 28+ in the shot and 90+ in the discus.

Lauren did very well in the hammer staying consistent from the previous week with a 77+ throw. In her other event she threw the shot 28+ and the discus 82+. Andrea also had a great pr in the hammer by bettering her first meet performance by more than 6 feet. As for the men, they had a solid day all around. In the hammer Casey produce another solid throw of 162+, shot 39+ PR and the discus 118+. Roddy, again had a consistent day in the hammer throwing 156+, shot 43+ and a huge pr in the discus 133+.

Aj was a little down in the hammer this week finding it difficult to hit the time and ending up with a ND, but he managed to pull out a pr in the shot with a throw of 42’5. Tucker threw well in the hammer throwing 144+, shot 44+ and producing a massive pr in the discus 135+. Ryan Gates was just under his pr with a throw of 139+ to stay consistent to his previous week. He threw 127+ in the discus as well. Dan Marwin set his first pr throw at 117+ to start off his hammer throwing career…in the jav he threw 136+ for another personal best.

Again, great performances by our crew, as we are still hitting it really hard in the gym. Well done!

February 12th 2010 was the start of the season as we hosted a five team rotational event at MJC. Our throwers started off the season with some very impressive distances in all of the events. In the hammer we had several PR's, which included a throw from Casey Ballinger at 163 feet to win the event. His previous best was 155'10. Casey threw the shot 36+ and the Disc 115+ to end with solid. Then came a series of back to back PR's from our other freshmen with Roddy Dash throwing 159'9 to take 2nd in the hammer...shot put he pulled out a 43'6 and disc 119+. AJ had a good day producing a 153+ throw to exceed his PR by over four feet. Tucker Weathers came in forth with a PR throw of 146+ in the hammer as well as 45'11 in the shot and a 121+ in the discus.

Ryan Gates pulled out a 140+ to take the fifth place spot in the hammer and managed to throw 127 in the disc. On the womens side we had some great early season throws in the hammer. Elsa took first with a throw of 136+ in the hammer, 32+ in the shot and 112+ in the discus, which is a great start for the season. Mahlynn hit a great throw (one turn) in the hammer 103+ and in the shot 29+ and the discus 89+ to give her a good start for the rest of the season. Lauren Beavers had a little break through in the hammer as she produced a 77 foot throw. She also threw the shot 28+ and the discus 82+. Andrea Zamora came in with very little practice in the hammer and did very well with a fantastic throw of 82+ feet.

All and all it was a great opening day for the whole crew and I am looking forward in seeing this group progress in the coming weeks as we lead into an awesome schedule of competitions. Great job guys! Keep up the hard work!