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Faces in the Crowd
Posted: Tues August 12, 1997 | |
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Sharif Karie
Springfield, Va.
Sharif, a senior at West Springfield High, was named the Circle of Champions U.S. high school boys' track and field athlete of the year. He won the mile at the national scholastic outdoor meet in 4:02.01, the fifth-best time in U.S. high school history.
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Tiina Booth
Amherst, Mass.
Booth, 43, coach of the Amherst-Pelham Regional High ultimate Frisbee team, led the Hurricanes to their fourth consecutive state championship with a 21-6 victory over Newton North High. Amherst-Pelham has a record of 76-3 against high school competition since 1994.
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Kaylee Webster
Clinton, Tenn.
Kaylee, 10, won the national championship in the trampoline-skills event for the girls' level 8 age 9-10 division at the USA Trampoline and Tumbling (USATT) championships in Orlando. Kaylee finished first in trampoline skills at all six USATT events in which she competed this year.
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Rudy Lugo
Brooklyn
Rudy, a sophomore at Xaverian High, pitched the Clippers to their second New York City Catholic school title with a 4-2 complete-game victory against Archbishop Molloy at Yankee Stadium. Rudy allowed three hits and struck out eight for Xaverian, which finished 28-3 and ranked 23rd in the nation.
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Melissa Beck
Cincinnati
Dong Yi
Alameda, Calif.
Beck, 18, and Yi, 19, both won amateur golf titles. Beck made a five-foot putt for par on the second extra hole to beat four-time champion Louise Kepley, 55, one up in the final of the Greater Cincinnati Women's Amateur at the Camargo Club. It was the first women's title for Beck, a two-time medalist in the city's junior girls' championships. She will attend Cincinnati's Xavier University this fall. Yi shot a six-under-par 138 to defeat Scott Watson, 25, by two strokes and win the San Joaquin Valley Amateur at River Island Country Club in Porterville, Calif. Yi played as a freshman on the Cal golf team last year.
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photographs (from top) by
Bruce Kluckhohn, Charles Abel, Patrick Murphy-Racey, Andrew McCloskey, Denny Landwehr, Clay McLachlan
Issue date: August 18, 1997
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