6th Berg/Seeger Track & Field Classic Confirmed

The 6th Berg/Seeger Track & Field Classic will be hosted by Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf in Faribault on 12-13 April 2013.

It has been confirmed that Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf (MSAD) will host the 6th Berg/Seeger Classic in Faribault on April 12 – 13, 2013. The track & field competition will take place at Bruce Smith Track and Field stadium in Alexander Park. Their facilities are one of the best in southeast Minnesota. It has 9 lanes, 2-colored alternate lanes, two jumping pits, two shot put areas and one discus area, and an electronic scoreboard. There will be prelims and a few field events going on Friday evening starting at 6PM.

This classic is open to all Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing high school athletes, including schools for the Deaf and mainstream schools in the United States. The purpose for this classic is to promote interest in track and field among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing high school athletes.

MSAD’s Welcome Letter can be viewed here .

About the Berg/Seeger Classic – Thomas O. Berg and Ruth T. Seeger were part of the first USA Team going to Deaflympics in 1957. They had coached for over 85 years combined and coached numerous National Champions, All-Americans, Deaflympians and many of their athletes broke many national and world records.

The Berg/Seeger Classic honors these coaches for their outstanding coaching and contribution to track and field among Deaf athletes for so many years.

For more biography of Thomas O. Berg and Ruth T. Seeger, visit here .

2012 Prep Top 50 Best Performances and Awards Announced

The USADTF review committee has reviewed and nominated winners based on the 2012 season’s top performance.

A committee has reviewed the 2012 Prep Boys and Girls Track and Field Team and Individual Honors.

After reviewing and compiling the finishes of all Track and Field events, the committee has declared the Team of the Year and Player of the Year for each Track and Field.

The winners are:

Girls:
Team of the Year: Texas School for the Deaf
Track Athlete of the Year: Lauren Morabito, Dana Hills High School
Field Athlete of the Year: Crystle Marion – St. Mary’s School for the Deaf

Boys:
Team of the Year: Alabama School for the Deaf
Track Athlete of the Year: Mohamed Kamara, Maryland School for the Deaf
Field Athlete of the Year: Antoine Nathaniel, California School for the Deaf, Fremont

For complete results and top times, information can be found through link below:
2012 Prep Top 50 Best Performances

Fifth Annual Berg/Seeger Classic Proclaimed a Success

The Fifth Annual Berg/Seeger Track & Field Classic for Mainstreamed and Deaf Prep Schools across America was held at Arizona School for the Deaf & Blind (ASDB) on April 20-21.

California School for the Deaf, Fremont (CSDF) came away with the Boys’ Team Overall Championship while Model Secondary School for the Deaf (MSSD) in Washington, D.C. took the Girls’ championship home.

CSDF boys’ team scored 158 points, a comfortable victory over second place Maryland School for the Deaf (MSD) with 123 points and California School for the Deaf, Riverside (CSDR) who came in third with 117.

The girls’ championship was much closer as MSSD had a four-point margin of victory with 116 over Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf (MSAD) who finished with 112 points. CSDF with a score of 109 for third but officially came into a second place tie with MSAD.

After all the scores were tallied on Saturday afternoon, CSDF and CSDR had 109 and 52 points, respectively. An USADTF official spotted an error with one athlete that was from CSDF but scored three points for CSDR. At that time, CSDF did not make a protest for the results so they received third place honors. Officially, MSAD and CSDF girls were tied for second with a score of 112, and CSDR’s actual score is 49, not 52.

At the Berg/Seeger Classic, a total of 132 athletes from 14 schools (11 Deaf, 3 Mainstreamed) competed. Over the weekend, 11 meet records were broken – 6 girls and 5 boys.

The Ruth T. Seeger award recipients for girls were: Elissa Letendre, SR from The Learning Center (TLC) in Massachusetts was named best Track Athlete while Lori Eldred, JR from MSSD was named Best Field Athlete. Sabina Shysh, SO from ASDB received Best All-Around Athlete honors.

The Thomas O. Berg award recipients for boys were: Mohamed Kamara, SR from MSD for best Track Athlete, and Gregory Spriggs-Cudjo, SR from CSDF was named Best Field Athlete. Taylor Koss, SR from Wisconsin School for the Deaf (WSD) received Best All-Around Athlete honors.

For more information from the 5th Berg/Seeger Classic, you can click on this link below, which will download a PDF document for Summary/Photos, School List, Roster, Results, Records and more.
Full Results

For the Top 10 Performances list of each event from Berg/Seeger in the 5-year history of the meet.
Top 10 Performances

Photos of the event can be seen at the SportsMX Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/SportsMX#!/SportsMX/photos

Video Clips

Senior High School Thrower breaks School Record, 8.5 inches away from Prep Record

St. Mary’s Senior Crystle Marion threw a 41′ 2″ in the Shot Put.

Senior Crystle Marion, of St. Mary’s School for the Deaf in Buffalo, New York, broke her own school record in the Shot Put with a throw of 41′ 2″.

St. Mary was playing against Falk School in a one-on-one meet on Thursday, April 19. Falk did not bring any female throwers to the meet, but the St. Mary female throwers were allowed to participate and their distances considered official.

Marion’s previous record was a throw of 38′ 3 ¼” in 2011 which broke the older school record previously held by Rena Primm in 1979 when she threw a mark of 37′ 7 ½”.

Marion is now only eight and a half inches away from the current prep record of 41′ 10 ½” in the Shot Put held by Brenda Bessner of Washington School for the Deaf set in 1988.