TROY DORIS

WALNUT, CALIFORNIA — The world outside of the state of Illinois came to know the name Troy Doris, earlier this year, when a YouTube posting of the senior jumping 52-plus feet spread like wildfire after it first appeared on the net.

Doris backed up his early season 52 with an outstanding performance at Hilmer Lodge Stadium on Thursday, July 26, posting a national-leading 52-feet-5½.

WILL CLAY

WALNUT, CALIFORNIA — Georgia sophomore Will Clay uncorked a personal best, 15.20-meter effort (49-feet-10) in the Intermediate Boys Divsion triple jump on Friday, July 27, 2007, to win gold during the USA Track and Field Junior Olympic Games.

COACH BRYAN STITH & KASEN COVINGTON

WALNUT, CALIFORNIA — Fifteen-year-old YMCA Team Idaho triple jumper Kasen Covington, who set a national youth division record last year as a 14-year-old, garnered a silver medal in the Intermediate Boys Division of the hop-step-jump at the USA Track and Field Junior Olympic Games on Friday.

Covington jumped 47-feet-2 inches.

MITCH HOBSON

WALNUT, CALIFORNIA— Texas high school junior Mitch Hobson placed sixth in the Young Men's Division of the long jump during the USA Track and Field Junior Olympic Games at Mt. San Antonio College.

Hobson produced a mark of 23-feet-9½.

CHRIS CARTER

SAN ANTONIO — L.C. Express Track and Field Club young men's division triple jumper and Hearne, Texas, native Chris Carter is not merely a Carter, he is, as Jay-Z would phrase it, "The Carter," building a sand dynasty one hop, step and jump phase at a time.

One of the few American prep triple jumpers, this year, to break the 51-foot mark, which has been surpassed by Tyron Stewart (Texas), Troy Doris (Illinois), Chrys Jones (Kentucky) and Christian Taylor (Georgia), Carter rebounded from an early summer track season injury to become the dominate force on the Amateur Athletic Union 17- to 18-year-old boys scene.

KIA WANSLEY

SAN ANTONIO — Triple jumper Kia Wansley notched a gold medal in her specialty during the Amateur Athletic Union Region IX Track and Field Championships on Friday, July 13, at Alamo Stadium.

A 40-foot club member, who leaped and bounded ahead of the Texas field events class at the beginning of this outdoor season, Wansley has qualified to participate in the AAU Junior Olympic Games, scheduled to take place on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville, July 27 - August 4.