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High School Cleveland Glenville Tarblooders

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small blurb in the PD yesterday about Glenville track

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports/1080217807290720.xml

" How much depth does the boys track team at Glenville have this season? Enough to have two of the nation's top 10 4x200-meter relay teams in the recent Nike Indoor Championships in Landover, Md.

Glenville's A team of Ted Ginn Jr., Jamario O'Neal, Donte Cloud and Stephon Fuqua won the race in a meet-record time of 1 minute, 28.90 seconds, nearly a half-second better than the old record.

The Tarblooders' B team Myron Howard, Raymond Small, Freddie Lenix and Daven Jones finished ninth, in 1:32.20. Coach Ted Ginn said he thinks his team can challenge the national record of 1:26.90 before the season is over.

With all that speed, it's little wonder some track insiders are saying this team could challenge the record for points scored in the state meet in June. Dayton Roth scored 77 points while winning the Class AA state title in 1982. Glenville scored 56 points while winning its 11th state championship last season.
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another PD article on Glenville track

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports/1080820618235610.xml

Just how good is the Glenville boys track team?

After winning the Division I state championship in 2003 and adding two of the better sprinters in Ohio to this season's team, the potential would seem unlimited. But coach Ted Ginn, his son, Ted Jr., and other members of the Tarblooders squad aren't ready to make any bold claims about their place in history. Yet.

"We do have a chance to be one of the best track teams ever to come out of Glenville," Ted Jr. said. "But we're not going to put anything else on our backs. We're not going to say we're the best this or the best that. We'll just see how it goes. We just want to be as good as we can be."

Ginn Jr. has already been very good. He was one of the most heavily recruited football players in the country before accepting a scholarship from Ohio State in December.

In last season's state track meet, he won the 110-meter hurdles, the 300-meter hurdles, anchored the first-place 4x400 relay team and finished second in the 200 meters.

His father also is hedging his predictions about what the Tarblooders are capable of achieving this season.

"I would just say we're on a faster pace than we were last year at this time," Ginn Sr. said. "It all depends on people staying healthy and continuing to work hard."

The Tarblooders might not be ready to say it, but others are willing to compare the team with the best ever from Ohio.

Claude Holland is the boys coach at Cleveland Heights. He has been a track coach for 30 years, and his 1985 John Adams team still holds the state record in the 4x400 relay — a record the Tarblooders could break this season.

"I can say this with great certainty," Holland said. "They are the greatest assembled group of sprinters from 400 meters down in the history of the state."

Old and new

That group starts with Ginn, who followed up his state-meet performance by winning national championships in both hurdle events last June at the Adidas National Track and Field Championships in Raleigh, N.C.

The Tarblooders also set a national record in Raleigh in their victory in the 800- meter sprint medley (1:28.95); and finished second in the 4x400 relay, in 3:10.66. That's nearly three seconds faster than the current state record (3:13.57).

Other returning standouts include Stephon Fuqua, Donte Cloud, Freddie Lenix, Raymond Small and Daven Jones. Jones, Fuqua and Lenix ran on the state- champion 4x100 relay team. Lenix finished seventh in the 100 meters. Cloud ran on the 4x400 relay team.

Glenville's newcomers include Jamario O'Neal, who transferred from Mansfield; and Myron Howard, who transferred from Collinwood. O'Neal finished third in the state in the 100 meters and anchored the fifth-place 4x100 relay team. Howard was the Senate Athletic League champion in the 100 meters and ran on Collinwood's 4x100 relay team that finished third in the state.

Dayton's Randy Wagner has coached several of the teams that are considered among the best ever from Ohio. His Roth High teams still hold the record for most points in a state meet. The 1981 team scored 62 points in Class AAA (comparable to Division I). In 1982, Roth scored 77 points in Class AA (Division II).

But Wagner said those teams were not the best he ever coached. That honor goes to the 1990 Dayton Dunbar team, which won the Division I state title with 59 points. Wagner said Glenville looks to be a mirror image of that Dunbar team.

"They're a lot alike in many ways," Wagner said. "You've got a big horse in the stable and lot of ponies with him."

The big horse for Glenville, of course, is Ginn. At Dunbar, it was Chris Nelloms. As a senior, Nelloms set state-meet records in the 200 meters, the 400 meters and the 110-meter hurdles. He also anchored the first-place 4x400 relay team and was a four-time state champ in the 400 meters before going on to become an NCAA champion at Ohio State.

More in store

Wagner said the 4x200 is Glenville's best event. The timing couldn't be better, since that race will be run in the state meet for the first time this season. Glenville broke the state record in the 4x200 (1:26.25) last season in a regular-season meet. The Tarblooders ran 1:24.77 in the 4x200 in the nationals, and Wagner thinks the team could challenge the national record of 1:23.31.

"I think the sky's the limit for them in the 4x200," Wagner said. "I wouldn't be surprised if they ran a 1:22. That's faster than most college teams."

With all the talent concentrated in the sprints, coach Ginn will have some tough decisions to make before settling on a lineup for the district meet. There's no question the competition will be fierce.

O'Neal was used to being the main man at Mansfield, but at Glenville, he will have to earn his spots like everyone else.

"You know if you fall off, there's someone there to take your spot," O'Neal said. "I knew it was going to be like this when I came here. It's just great competition."

Fuqua said the focus is on each athlete doing everything he can to maximize his own performance. The championships and records will take care of themselves.

"We compete more amongst ourselves more than anything else," Fuqua said. "When we get to a meet, it's easy."
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Glenville at the Arcadia Invitational

http://www.dyestat.com/3us/4out/arcadia/results.htm

100m seeded
(2) Jamario O'Neal 10.4

400m invite
(2) Ted Ginn, Jr 47.57

4x100m relay invite
1st place Freddie Lenix, Myron Howard, Stephen Fuqua, Andre Evans 41.84

4x400m relay invite
(2) Donte Cloud, Stephen Fuqua, Ted Ginn Jr, Jamario O'Neal 3:16.95

http://www.dyestat.com/3us/4out/arcadia/r-open.htm

100m open
(3) Freddie Lenix 11.07

http://www.dyestat.com/3us/4out/arcadia/r-friday.htm

4x200m relay seeded
1st Place-Myron Howard, Raymond Small, Freddie Lenix, Andre Evans 1:29.17

4x200m relay invite
1st Place- Stephen Fuqua, Donte Cloud, Jamario O'Neal, Ted Ginn Jr 1:26.00

sprint medley invite
1st Place- Freddie Lenix, Daven Jones, Donte Cloud, Ted Ginn Jr 1:31.28

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dante was very impressive in person in football.

i was talking to a coach of theirs in 2002 on the sideline before the game and he wouldn't shut up about how explosive cloud was. after watching the game i couldn't disagree.
 
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Glenville

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MANSFIELD -- It didn't take long for former Tyger star Jamario O'Neal to fit in at Cleveland Glenville -- and that's saying something when you consider the Tarblooders boast perhaps the greatest collection of sprinters in state history.

Most of last football season was a wash for O'Neal as issues regarding his transfer from Mansfield Senior were resolved. But the junior sprinter began to hit his stride during the indoor track season, becoming Glenville's No. 1 threat in the 100 meter dash and a key relay runner as the Tarblooders take aim at national records in the 4 x 200 and 4 x 400.

O'Neal doesn't mind that he's had to defer top billing at Glenville to national champion hurdler Ted Ginn Jr. after being the track equivalent of a "franchise player" the past two years for Senior High.

"It's fun being on a team with this much talent because we compete against each other," said O'Neal, who is returning to what used to be his home oval for the 72nd Mehock Relays on Friday and Saturday at Malabar Middle School. "We talk about it (the buzz surrounding this team) sometimes ... but, mainly, we just go out and run."

The question isn't whether Glenville will repeat as Mehock champion this weekend. The only question is whether the Tarblooders will eclipse the record 97 points scored by Detroit Mumford in 1999.

"I would say the two teams are comparable," Mehock publicity chairman and track historian Bill Rogers said. "What Mumford had was a good hurdler and good relay teams. They are going to be tremendous in all three speed relays and the hurdles and dashes because they have all kind of sprinters available.

"Jamario gives them depth because he can run four events."

Ginn Jr., the centerpiece of Ohio State's freshman football class, is expected to run the 110 high hurdles, two relays and either the 300 intermediate hurdles or 400 meter dash in an attempt to match his quadruple gold medal performance in last year's Mehock.

O'Neal, who last year became the first sophomore in memory to verbally commit to OSU in football, is looking to win Mehock and state titles in the 100 after running a hand-held 10.4 last weekend at a meet in Arcadia, Calif. He could be competing here in all three sprint relays as well.

"I haven't really thought about it," O'Neal said of his homecoming. "Last time I ran against my old friends was in middle school, but I'll be ready."

In that regard, he was probably speaking for all of the Tarblooders.

"I can say this with great certainty," coach Claude Holland of two-time Mehock champ Cleveland Heights told the Plain Dealer. "They are the greatest assembled group of sprinters from 400 meters down in the history of the state."

Appropriately, the hometown newspaper has dubbed Glenville as the "G-Force."

In addition to Ginn, the returnees from the squad that won Mehock and state championships last spring are Stephon Fuqua, Donte Cloud, Freddie Lenix, Raymond Small and Daven Jones.

O'Neal, who placed third in the 100 in last year's Mehock and state meet, isn't the only notable transfer. Myron Howard also came aboard after winning a Senate League title in the 100 for Collinwood and running on that school's third-place 4 x 100 team at state.

Randy Waggoner, who coached nine-time Mehock gold-medalist Chris Nelloms, said Glenville reminds him of his 1990 state champion Dayton Dunbar team. That team saw Nelloms set state meet records in the 200, the 400 and the high hurdles. He also anchored the title-winning 4 x 400 team.

"They're a lot alike in many ways," Waggoner told the PD. "You've got a big horse (Ginn) in the stable and lots of ponies with him."
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The Cleveland Glenville Tarblooders could make a run at six official or unofficial Mehock Relays records this weekend. Here's a look at the events, with the Mehock record and year the record was established, and a comment on the Tarblooders' chances this weekend:

110 meter hurdles 13.6 (1981)
Comment: The 13.6, run by Tom Wilcher of Detroit (Mich.) Central, is the third-oldest record on the books. It was a hand-held time, which converts to an automatic 13.84. Glenville's Ted Ginn Jr. ran a 13.62 when he upset two Texas hurdlers to win the national championship last June.

100 meter dash 10.4 (1979)
Comment: The 10.4, run by Anthony Sharpe of Toronto (Ont.) Stephen Leacock, is the second-oldest record on the books. That, too, is a hand-held time, which converts to an automatic 10.64. Glenville's Jamario O'Neal, a Mansfield Senior transfer, ran a hand-held10.4 for runner-up honors last weekend at the Arcadia Invitational in California.

400 meter dash 46.80 (1990)
Comment: This is the first season Glenville's Ted Ginn Jr. is running the open 400, but based on some of his splits in the 4 x 400, the Mehock record held by Chris Nelloms of Dayton Dunbar and Nelloms' state record (45.59) could fall. Ginn has had an unofficial split of 45.5 and ran a 47.57 in the open quarter in California last week.

4 x 100 meter relay 41.7 (1985)
Comment: Three members are back from the Glenville quartet that won a state title last year at 41.2. The Tarblooders ran a 41.84 last weekend in California. The current Mehock mark, a hand-held time, is held by another Cleveland school, John Adams.

4 x 200 meter relay 1:27.62 (2003)
Comment: Three members are back from the Glenville quartet that set the record last year. The Tarblooders went on to set the state record (1:26.25) at the state meet and improved to 1:24.77 at the Adidas nationals in Raleigh, N.C. That mark does not count as an official state record.

4 x 400 meter relay 3:14.09 (1987)
Comment: Toronto Central Tech holds the record, but probably not for long. Glenville ran a 3:10.66 last summer at nationals and is gunning for the national mark of 3:07.4, set by Hawthorn, Calif., in 1985
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