Daniel received 13th place. One to Fifteenth place goes to Niagara.
Daniel Tulloch ran in the 2015 Mid-Atlantic USATF Cross
Country meet in Philadelphia, Pa. on Saturday morning at 10:00 AM. Daniel ran in the 9-10 age group. He came in
13th with a time of 16 Minutes 21 Seconds in the 3K race. The first 15 runners qualify to go to the Region
2 Meet in Niagara, NY. This year, Daniel will not run in the Region 2
meet because he wants to concentrate on his Basketball career.
Daniel has been running in this Association meet since age 5
and has always qualified for the Region 2 meet for 6 years, every year.
Dating back to the
mid-1960's, the USATF Junior Olympic program is the most visible youth athlete
developmental program in the world. Nearly 70,000 youth athletes compete each
year in the Junior Olympic Track & Field and Cross Country programs. Many
of America's Olympians began as youth athletes, including stars such as Maurice
Greene, Allyson Felix, Bryan Clay, John Godina, Deena Kastor, and Allen
Johnson.
Through a series of professional events consisting of
preliminary, Association, and Regional meets, athletes have the opportunity to
advance to the National Championships in track & field and cross country.
OnceUSATF members, participants can enter the Junior Olympics
either as part of aUSATF clubor as
"unattached." Competition takes place in six (6) 2-yearage divisions,
from 8 & under through 17-18.
USATF
Mid-Atlantic
Description
of the Association Territory
State of Pennsylvania east of and including Potter, Clinton, Centre,
Huntingdon, and Bedford counties and the State of Delaware.
On the left, Daniel in all three pictures from top to bottom.
On the right, Grandfather Darnell Williams and
David from top to bottom.
The Hershey Blaze XC group allows kids of all age groups an opportunity to continue their training into the fall and even compete in several meets. This season begins in September and goes into early November. Like our track & field program, Hershey Blaze Cross Country is designed to introduce kids to distance running by providing an experience that is fun, competitive, social, and informative about the sport.
Cross country races are trail runs across several types of terrain at distances of 2,000m (1.2 miles) for kids 8 years old and under; 3,000m (1.9 miles) for kids 9 through 12 years old; 4,000m (2.5 miles) for kids 13 and 14 years old; and 5,000m (3.1 miles) for 15 year olds. The primary events that Hershey Blaze runners compete in are the Healthy Kids Running Series and the USATF XC Junior Olympic Series. Hershey Blaze athletes have been highly successful and have qualified to compete at the top level.
Saturday Oct. 31, 2015 at Hershey
This is David in 30 Degree Weather, running the 2K in Hershey on Oct. 31, 2015. He did not finish and Mother Stephanie had to carry him most of the way. He did not want to run.
This is David trying to explain how Daniel's race ended.
Daniel came in 5th out of 5 Hershey Blaze runners on Saturday October 31, 2015. His time was 25 Minutes 45 seconds.
Sunday Nov. 1, 2015 5K Hero Run at Swatara Harrisburg Mall
Daniel ran this run with a Gun Time of 25 minutes, 45.6 seconds. The ten year old Chip Time was 45 Minutes, 44.4 Seconds. They had over 600 people registered for this race but only 221 runners finished. Daniel was 109th to finish. In his age group he finished 8th. He ran in the 9 -- 12 year old group.
But the amazing person that ran was David. Stephanie decided not to go to the XC meet. His father Damine took us to the mall to get their registration packages and prepare for the race.
The first thing we had to do was get Daniel to the starting line and get him off. Then it was David's turn for the one mile run while Daniel was running his 5K.
I did not expect David to want to run. I did not think that Damine thought he would run either. So I got behind David on the starting line expecting after a quarter mile, he would stop and walk back.
When the horn went off, I took one step, looked up and not only was David down the street but he was leading everyone else. I still thought that he would "die." So I did not speed up. But next thing I knew, he was out of sight. I started getting a little worried.
Damine caught up with me and asked, where was David. I did not know and Damine went on a head of me looking for him. I stopped and went to the finish line. Sooner or later he was going to show up.
David was running his race. I looked down to the opposite end of the mall and saw Damine but no David. Damine walk down to me and told me that David was in the mall on his last leg of the race. So I waited and sure enough, he came out the other end of the mall and ran toward the finish line running just as strong and focus as he started.
His father Damine said to David, "Come on in the mall, I will buy you anything you want!" In the last 5 years, I never heard Damine say that to David. He spent almost $50 on David. It looks like I am not the only person impressed.
David Tulloch is in Kindergarden at Paxtonia Elementary but he stepped up his play today!
