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Institute, Brooklyn, NY (January 26) – Easton High School (PA)
student Chanelle Price broke the Colgate Women’s Games
High School 800 Meters record yesterday, crossing the line in
an incredibly fast 2:09.65. Price, an Olympic hopeful who
has been on a streak of breaking women’s track & field records
this past year, will try to break her own record at the 34th
Annual Colgate Women’s Games Finals at Madison Square Garden
on Saturday, February 2. The
previous Games 800 Meters record was 2:09.73, set by Shola Lynch
in 1986.
“Chanelle is making incredible times, especially when you consider
that the old record was set at the Garden, which is a faster track,
with the runner wearing spikes. What Chanelle did here today,
under these circumstances, shouldn’t even be called running.
She’s flying,” enthused Meet Director Fred Thompson.
Among the 240 athletes who advance to the Games Finals are Queens,
NY’s Phyllis Francis, who cleared 5’2” in the high jump
on Saturday; Willingboro’s NJ Jade Barrett who threw 10.5
Meters in the shot put; and Bronx, NY’s Whitney Fountain
who finished the 55 Meters in 6.9 seconds.
The Colgate Women's Games, the nation's largest amateur track
and field series, attract more than 11,000 participants each year.
Every weekend in January, girls and young women from elementary
school through college and beyond compete in sprints, hurdles,
distance runs, high jump and the shot put. Athletes compete
against peers in one of six divisions: Elementary School A, Elementary
School B, Middle School, High School, College and 30+.
The semi-finals determined who will compete in the Colgate Women's
Games Finals at the world's most famous arena, Madison Square
Garden, on Saturday, February 2, for trophies and educational
grants-in-aid from Colgate-Palmolive Company.
Follow scores of all top competitors at
www.colgategames.com
To download hi-resolution photos of Colgate Women's Games competitors,
please visit
http://www.colgategames.com/Gallery.htm. To request press passes to the Madison Square Garden
Finals, please contact Eva Dilmanian at 646.654.9324 or eva@buzzwordpr.com.
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