Spring Westfield's Jones wins national 2-mile event
While Sean Wade was representing the Bayou City last Saturday in Jacksonville, Florida at the USA 15K National Championships, Spring Westfield HS junior Nichole Jones bounced back from December's Foot Locker National Cross Country Championships with a win Sunday in the 2-Mile Run at the Nike Indoor Nationals in Landover, Maryland.
Jones, who finished 27th against a stellar prep field after winning the South Regional two weeks before, passed the pre-race favorite, Saratoga Springs, New York's Nicole Blood, midway en route to an impressive time of 10:29.09.
“I was thinking (Blood) was going to go with me if I passed her,” Jones told high school track and field's top internet site, dyestat.com, in a copyrighted story. “Then when she didn’t, there was a point when I started to slow, because I was afraid of her kick. But then I thought, I’m feeling good, what the heck.”
Even though, Jones finished one place ahead of Blood at the Foot Locker Nationals at Balboa Park in San Diego, California, she knew that less than a month ago Blood unleashed a furious kick to pass a pack of five runners at the USA Cross Country Championships Junior 6K event.
In that event, which was televised on ESPN2, Blood left California sophomore Kauren Tarver (who finished 5th at Foot Locker), Nevada's Marie Lawrence and three collegiate runners, including Baylor's Erin Bedell, behind to win in 20:45.
In Sunday's win, Jones defeated Roanoke, Virginia junior Catherine White and Columbia, South Carolina's Kate Niehaus, who was the event's defending champion. (White was 11th at the Foot Locker Nationals.)
Competing in an early section (of three) of the Boys' 1-Mile Run, Dallas Jesuit's Will Smith finished second in the mile in 4:24.71. The main section winner, Ashburnham, Massachusetts' Ayalew Taye, posted a time of 4:14.31. The all-time high school mile record belongs to Alan Webb, who recorded a 3:59.86 on January 20, 2001.
Jones, who finished 27th against a stellar prep field after winning the South Regional two weeks before, passed the pre-race favorite, Saratoga Springs, New York's Nicole Blood, midway en route to an impressive time of 10:29.09.
“I was thinking (Blood) was going to go with me if I passed her,” Jones told high school track and field's top internet site, dyestat.com, in a copyrighted story. “Then when she didn’t, there was a point when I started to slow, because I was afraid of her kick. But then I thought, I’m feeling good, what the heck.”
Even though, Jones finished one place ahead of Blood at the Foot Locker Nationals at Balboa Park in San Diego, California, she knew that less than a month ago Blood unleashed a furious kick to pass a pack of five runners at the USA Cross Country Championships Junior 6K event.
In that event, which was televised on ESPN2, Blood left California sophomore Kauren Tarver (who finished 5th at Foot Locker), Nevada's Marie Lawrence and three collegiate runners, including Baylor's Erin Bedell, behind to win in 20:45.
In Sunday's win, Jones defeated Roanoke, Virginia junior Catherine White and Columbia, South Carolina's Kate Niehaus, who was the event's defending champion. (White was 11th at the Foot Locker Nationals.)
Competing in an early section (of three) of the Boys' 1-Mile Run, Dallas Jesuit's Will Smith finished second in the mile in 4:24.71. The main section winner, Ashburnham, Massachusetts' Ayalew Taye, posted a time of 4:14.31. The all-time high school mile record belongs to Alan Webb, who recorded a 3:59.86 on January 20, 2001.
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