Alorro first RP Athlete in 2013 to make SEA Games Bronze Standard, Kyla in good form.
Alorro first RP Track and Field Athlete to make Bronze Medal Criteria for SEA Games in 2013
Alloro getting to Vault at the NCAA Div III Championships.
Julio Alorro leapt 4.72m at the The College of New Jersey/Rider Dual meet on Saturday 2nd February to easily win the event. Alorro who has a personal best of 4.91m which ranked him number three in South East Asia last year. He has met the criteria for the SEA Games bronze medal standard (4.70) within the calendar year of 2013. Alorro who is a dual citizen was born in Quezon City and will compete at the Philippine National Games.
Another Fil-Heritage vaulter Caleb Monticalvo is expected to debut later this month. Kreetha of Thailand the SEA Games champ was ranked number one ahead of Monticalvo and Alorro who are expected to medal at the SEA Games.
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Kyla Richardson in good Form
14 year old twins Kyla and Kayla Richardson continued there fine form over the much shorter event of 55m at the UC Irvine open meet on Saturday 2nd February. Kyla registered a winning time of 7.28, and Kayla 7.41 placed third. On conversion these times are around 11.80 and 12.20 for the 100m.
The twins also competed in a 4x200m relay team which clocked 1:38.91 the fastest time in California this year or an average of 24.72 per runner for each 200m.
The girls are coached by Jon Gilmer from the Academy of Speed.
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Fil-Canadian Jonelle Halog ran 7.22 at the McGill Team Challenge in Montreal.
Meanwhile Fil-Aussie Pirie Enzo did not participate this weekend due to bad weather.
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Amazing girls! Wonderful big strides!I just curious how fast they will be running by Dec SEA Games! They look like they are capable of barging into the top 3 finish in 100 or 200m if the progess continues. I hope they will do a local commercial soon maybe with MILO or Ovaltine so more filipinos will be able to identify with them. I think too they should compete in the open division in PNG 2013. Anyone who wants to make it to the philippine team to SEA Games 2013 should compete in the open division, just my opinion. The same with Jennyrose Rosales, she should skip the junior division this year and compete in the open division. That should put more pressure too to Kat Santos. So we expect a highly competitive 100m dash in years and maybe 3 sub 12secs! Let’s see. I see too that 400m will be highly competitive with top 4 women aiming to make it to the 4x400m relay team. Wow! This is going to to be an interesting year for philippine women’s track and field!
No none of the above juniors in my team will be competing in the open division that will definitely not happen at all NO WAY.
There is a history/mentality already in the Philippines of coaches and administrators pushing athletes to run in the senior division and alot of the time we see these athletes burn out and never heard of again.
Kyla is 15 years old she will be more focussed on a junior title and then perhaps the ASEAN School Games. No need to rush her into competition against seniors yet she needs to enjoy the journey. Think of athletics as hopping up stairs in a stadium. If you try and skip too many then you hit run and fall bad.
What is the point of picking the fruit before its ripe? we might have faster Fil-Heritage seniors anyway. We need to develop the junior division.
Richardsons and Rosales competing in juniors provide good comp for each other and the winning time might be faster than the best local in seniors anyway. Kyla will prob still run 11.85-11.95 running against Kayla and Jennyrose she does not need to race against Kat yet.
“Anyone who wants to make it to the philippine team to SEA Games 2013 should compete in the open division, just my opinion. The same with Jennyrose Rosales, she should skip the junior division this year and compete in the open division. That should put more pressure too to Kat Santos. So we expect a highly competitive 100m dash in years and maybe 3 sub 12secs! Let’s see. ”
Why should they compete as seniors? if they run a quicker times against a quick junior girls sprint field are you assuming these performances are going to be disregarded?
I’m not concerned about putting pressure on Kat Santos, i’m concerned about the welfare and development of the junior division. Most successful athletic nations have well stocked junior and youth divisions. Thailand had a hundred entries in the girls 100m.