Carlos Moore emerged as a new face on the U.S. sprinting scene in the Jim Bush Southern California Championships at Occidental College on 4 June in Eagle Rock, California, USA.
Moore ran a stunning career-best 10.07 to win the 100m and move into the eighth on the yearly list in the USA Track & Field West Region Championship competition. Moore, 22, the 2002 and 2003 State Community College Champion at nearby Mt. San Antonio College, smashed his previous PB of 10.29 set in 2003 and the meet record of 10.17 set by Jerome Avery in 2004.
Jeff Laynes (10.25) and Wes Felix (10.26) were second and third in the race aided by a 1.0 m/s breeze.
Moore’s mark was among three meet records set in the 21st annual meet named after Jim Bush along with Jonathan Williams in the 400m Hurdles (49.10) and Shauna Smith in the Women’s 400m Hurdles (54.93) in the 20th annual meet named after former UCLA, USC and Occidental coach Jim Bush.
Bush, a USATF and US Track Cross Country Coaches Assn. Hall of Fame Hall of Fame inductee, has worked with 118 NCAA medalists and 30 Olympians during his coaching career that has spanned over five decades.
Melinda Smedley was a double winner in the women’s 100m (11.27) and 200m (23.11). Chris Berrian in the 200m (20.52) and Mike Mitchell in the 400m (46.14) were other sprint winners on a warm humid afternoon and an audience that included 2005 World women’s 200m champion Allyson Felix, who watched in street clothes sidelined by a hamstring injury and the flu.
In the 800m, Tetlo Emmen held off Elliott Blount, 1:47.47 to 1:47.98. In the 1500m, Steve Sherer won in 3:41.21 in a three-way battle with David Torrence (3:41.52) and Sean Graham (3:41.75).
Simidele Adeagbo bounded 13.53m in the women’s Triple Jump to move into third on the 2006 U.S. performer list.
Kirby Lee for the IAAF
