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Yego for South Africa Training Camp
"The 24-year-old Yego...will attend the camp...after an invitation by the Finnish team manager Jukka Harkonen."

So who trains with Harkonen?

Sam,
Jeneva McCall 74.77 hammer, 19.10 shot, 59.55 disc, 23.98 weight. Gwen Berry 73.89 hammer, 24.77 weight, 16.99 shot, Cory Martin 9th in world shot for the past year, Deanna Price 65. 45 2nd year hammer thrower, world junior team, J.C Lambert 67..09 hammer, 22.54 weight. Josh freeman 18.55 19 year old putter and pan am junior champ. All kids in a 200 mile radius. Thats the meat but thier a lot more young ones coming up.

Does T.J. Crater still coach @Ryan Whiting ?

Young Throwers Use Chances To Meet The Elite
By Siobhan Bauer 01/26/2014

Throughout the past year, the throwers on the Husky track and field team have been fortunate enough to interact on some level with four world-class athletes... Aretha Thurmond... Ryan Whiting... Jill Camarena-Williams... Jarred Rome.

Whiting has traveled to Seattle for some one-on-one work with Husky throws coach T.J. Crater, who has doubled as Whiting’s personal coach for the past four years.

Crater began coaching Whiting before leaving Penn State to come to Washington in 2011. Once the duo started working together, Whiting recorded a ninth place finish at the 2012 London Olympics, a gold medal at the 2012 World Indoor Championships, as well as a silver medal at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.

Good question. The videos seem to show @Ryan Whiting lifting at Penn State.

I train at PSU with my day to day throwing coach, Pat Ebel and my strength coach, Cam Davidson. I write my own throwing workouts, mostly based on feel. Pat Ebel has been great and is at every practice, Helping With Anything I need. I stay in contact with TJ and take training trips to UW once or twice a year for a change of pace. TJ has been awesome since I moved to PSU, he is at UW now but I send video and we talk consistently.

I am not able to discover this information through the web site.

Who is training under the guidance of coaches Maurice Wilkins and Art Venegas at the Athletics High Performance Training Center in Chula Vista, California, USA?

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I am not able to discover this information through the web site.

Who is training under the guidance of coaches Maurice Wilkins and Art Venegas at the Athletics High Performance Training Center in Chula Vista, California, USA?

From what I've heard/ read:

Tia Brooks (glide shot put)
Joe Kovacs (rotational shot put)
Liz Podominick (discus 208' 9")
Jared Schuurmans (discus)

I wonder if @Mac Wilkins still works with Krishna Poonia (India, discus).

I've seen @Mac Wilkins in the userlist maybe he can answer your question directly?

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@Tony Ciarelli graciously shared this on Facebook.
What a great tradition in this training group from Newport Harbor High School.

Is @Tony Ciarelli the coach of all of these boys while they were at the Newport Harbor school? @Tony Ciarelli looks to be a younger man than would be required for coaching these boys in the 1970's.

Wu Tao , I coached all of the throwers on the list after 1990, I competed against Terry Allbriton and Jim Neidhart in high school, Jim Hemsley was the coach of the top four guys on the list and started the great tradition that we now have at Newport. Terry, Jim and myself all ended up at the University of Hawaii together, I was a javelin thrower by then, Terry ended up breaking the World shot record and Jim became the "Anvil" as a pro wrestler.

@Rutger Smith is training with us at Newport and soon Seema Antil Punia will return from India to train with us also, I coached Seema for 2012 London Games. Seema is getting ready for the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games. With @Rutger Smith we are just seeing how his ankle heals, but our plan is to just get ready for 2015 season.

@Norm Zylstra asked me to post my training group, so I will. Brief background my dad was a track coach. I was a fairly good hs thrower when football didn't get in the way. I started about 5 years after @Tony Ciarelli coaching in the same area (Orange County). He was dominating at Edison from Hunt. Beach and my first goal was to become the Edison of North Orange County.

I have had the pleasure of coaching a national champion, 2 state champions, and 16 CIF champions. So far this year, I have a 59' 10.5 and 160' senior thrower this year, a 56' 3 and 164' freshman, and a 52' 6 senior. I have been able to give Tony some competition most years sort of like Carthage to his Rome. These guys were all from my school, Esperanza in Anaheim, Ca.

55 ' SHOT PUT
66' 8 M. PARLIN 91
61' 1 G. LONG 03
61' B. POOLE 08
60' 11.75 A. DAN 04
60' 6.5 M. MILLER 11
60' 3 JU. BIRRELL 98
59' 10.5 W. TRUONG 14
58' 3.25 M. KINNEY 90
57' 7.5 T. JONES 01
56' 11.75 C. UNDERWOOD 89
56' 3 T. MCCULLOUGH 93
56' 3 B. OSBORN 14
56' 2.5 M. GRAY 03
55' 9 M. BURNS 90
55' 1 T. MCDONALD 10
170 ' DISCUS
203' 5 T. PENDLETON 00
200' 9 M. GRAY 04
194' 2 M. PARLIN 91
193' 9 A. DAN 04
181' 8 M. LOPEZ 10
181' 2 J. PENDLETON 09
180' 5 M. MILLER 11
176' 2 S. JARNE 96
172' 2 B. WOODS 98
170' 10 M. JABLONSKY 04
170' 4 J. STEWART 93

@Tony Ciarelli and @ehsfb2001
How able the girls? I thought both of you had daughters who did some damage in their day.

My daughter's claim to fame was she threw her weight. She weighed 112 and threw 131'. With the popularity of volleyball and softball club teams here, it's very tough to get girls. My best girl throwers
Shot Put
41' 2 K. THOMPSON 00
41' 1.75 C. CHESTER 01
40' 9 S. SAMPSON 99
36' 6 S. KNISLEY 01
35' 11.5 L. ALLEN 13
35' 11.25 A. PARRISH 00
35' 2.5 C. KOLLMAR 95
35' 2 K. LAICH 00
DISCUS
142' 2 K. THOMPSON 00
139' 8 K. LAICH 07
139' 5 J. BRICKNER 01
133' 5 S. SAMPSON 99
132' 2 S. JARNER 98
131' 4 C. PENDLETON 01

Btw I don't claim to be a world class coach. I don't know why that's on there. I was able to pick up a lot of information from elite coaches like Art Venegas when I had a thrower go to UCLA, from Don Babbit and Dan Lange when I did clinics with them and from expert coaches like Lloyd Higgens, Coach Mackay, Scott Semar, and Tony C. I have had success because I am good at synthesizing the information into a form that works for my high school situation and developing throwers with workouts I also had a lot of imput on from the above coaches. Occasionally I come up something of my own.

Sandy, I coached two of my daughters, Maryn threw for me but was a much better weightlifter, at 63 kilos she snatched 80K and C&J 100k. My other daughter Katelyn was a discus thrower for me in H.S. She had a best of 148' she went on to Long Beach State and made NCAAs with a throw of 174', she is now the throws coach at the University of California in Irvine. Same problem as Bill since the mid 90s every girl that looks like a thrower plays volleyball! My top girls list is made up of mostly girls that look like weight lifters! 5'5" and under, the Heads sisters were both 5'2"
Shot
47'5" - Gina Heads / National Junior Champion and Record holder in both Snatch and C@J at the time
41'11.5" - Leslee Briggs
40'6" - Cara Heads / 2000 Olympian weightlifting / 9 time Senior National Champion
38'9" - Laura Wilson
38'1" - Lia Rousset
37'2.75" - Maryn Ciarelli

Discus
149'5" - Cara Heads
148'5" - Katelyn Ciarelli
147'5" - Alana Faagai
146'1" - Gina Heads
136'0" - Maryn Ciarelli

Since Bill put up his top 10 Discus list, I figure I should put mine up also. We have been competing against each other for about 30 years, our schools are about 15 miles from each other.
for the non Americans we throw a 1.6 kilo discus in high school in the U.S.
Discus
65.20 (213'11") Scott Moser
65.10 (213'7") Bo Taylor
63.90 (209'8") Ethan Cochran
59.71 (195'11") Sam Lightbody
58.36 (191'6") Brian Ruziecki
58.01 (190'4") Marty Taylor
57.22 (187'9") Cecil Whiteside
56.74 (186'2") Kaleaph Carter
56.41 (185'1") Steve Michaelsen
55.77 (183'0") Eki Faagai

Quote from Phil Bilkins

From what I've heard/ read:

Tia Brooks (glide shot put)
Joe Kovacs (rotational shot put)
Liz Podominick (discus 208' 9")
Jared Schuurmans (discus)

I wonder if @Mac Wilkins still works with Krishna Poonia (India, discus).

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Sieg Lindstrom writes in the March 2014 T&F News that the are "... 19 current Chula-Vista resident throwers", with Jared Schuurmans the only male discus thrower.

I find it odd that we don't know who else it training there.