A Glance in the Rear View Mirror
This Week 15 Years Ago
NAME THE STARS
1993 Sunkist Indoor Track & Field Meet
Los Angeles Sports Arena

by Doug Speck - Editor DyeStatCal.com

The 'Man' when it came to our photo contest
Chris Asher - Head Coach Cal State LA

Who was best at identifying the athletes below - well Coach Chris Asher the Coach at Cal State LA with roots in Southern California that go back in the sport to his days as an athlete under Coach Kye Courtney at Hawthorne HS before competing at Cal State Northridge and coaching stints at Cal State Fullerton and currently as the Head Coach at Cal State LA, gets an "A" for his ability to dig back nearly two decades and do the best job of naming the folks below. 

For the record they are:

1- Andrea Anderson (Long Beach Poly)
2- Lakeisha Backus (Long Beach Wilson)
3- Michael Granville (Bell Gardens)
4- Bryan Howard (Canyon Springs, Moreno Valley)
5- Erica Sumi (Long Beach Wilson)
6- Tai-Ne Gibson (Morningside, Inglewood)
7- Tyson Ligenfelter (Upland)
8- Nathan Woods (Duarte)
9- Brian Wilkinson (Merced)
10- Carrie Garritson (Buena Park)
11- Tracye Lawyer (Cate, Carpinteria)
12- Danielle Boswell (Bullard, Fresno)
13 - Brandon Vance (Los Gatos)

We will be taking some glances in the rear view mirror this season, looking back some years ago each time during a period of the season and see what the action was like back at that time and who some of the stars were.  In two installments we will take a look back at what was the center of the prep indoor scene in California for a number of decades, the Al Franken directed Prep Indoor affairs that for a number of years had Sunkist as the sponsor.  All the athletes were given Sunkist t-shirts, with those the most often seen shirts across the state during the rest of that winter and spring season.  We will start today with a bit of a history quiz with help from some great photographers and see who can come the closest, or like Brian Butler amazed us the last time with his 100% score on distance types of the period, and name the following stars of that 1993 Sunkist Indoor Meet.  We will follow with the answers and a summary of what was another great competition in that series. 

photo by Bill Cockerham	photo by Bill Cockerham
#1 - One of the great LB Poly sprinters to wear the "Beach" uniform took the 93 Sunkist 50m dash as a soph	#2 - Across town this Long Beach Wilson star made all the Moore League and beyond contests tight with her quality sprinting - she was third in the Sunkist 93 50m dash as a frosh
photo by Kirby Lee	photo by Kirby Lee
#3 - Only a ninth grader with tremendous age-group credentials, this future National Record Holder star started his prep career with a bang in the 93 Sunkist Meet	#4 - A great career in the early 1990's had this sprinter, second in the Sunkist 50m started at West of Bakersfield before a move to Canyon Springs (Moreno Valley)
photo by Doug Speck	photo by Kirby Lee
#5 - Fine distance runner led her Long Beach Wilson group to a 4x880 win at Sunkist and had a great career Fall & Spring	#6 - One of the greats from Morningside who helped relay squads blaze to quick 4x160 and 4x440 wins at the 93 Sunkist
#7 - Outside the Sports Arena this Upland star took the Shot Put in the 93 Sunkist Meet	#8 - This 880 star from Duarte HS took his 93 Sunkist event for Coach Mike Ramos's Falcon squad
photo by Bill Cockerham	photo by Keith Conning
#9 - This Sac Joaquin distance star took a National level Sunkist Mile event with a 59.0 final 440	#10 - This star from a 'running family' took the Girls 2 mile and actually ran in the Sunkist event as an elementary student in the Open/Olympic level competition
photo by Bill Cockerham	photo by Bill Cockerham
#11 - This small schools all-around star from the Southern Section took a 93 Sunkist Indoor HJ title on misses from the young lady to the right	#12 - Central Section star had a great prep career in the High Jump and was second in the 1993 Sunkist affair
photo by Bill Cockerham
#13 - The 1993 Sunkist prep pole vault was a four and a half hour affair, which the above athlete won when meet management suddenly raised the bar in the prep event from 15-00 to 15-09 so the pros could start

If you think you can name a good number of the above please put them in order
(for example)
1 - Jane Smith (LB Poly)
2) Sally Doe (LB Wilson)
3) Fred James (Central, El Centro)
etc.
e-mail your answers to
Dyestatcal9@aol.com

by the start of next week (Mon Feb 11th by noon)
we will follow with a write-up of the 1993 15 year ago Sunkist affair

 

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