Runner's & Triathlete's Web Athletics: Team USA roster announced for the 2008 IAAF World Junior Championships

USA Track & Field today announced the Team USA roster for the 12th IAAF World Junior Championships, to be held July 8-13, in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

A total of 79 athletes - 40 men and 39 women - will be part of the U.S. delegation for the World Junior Championships. The U.S. roster was determined at the 2008 USA Junior Track & Field Championships, June 20-22, in Columbus, Ohio.

Nation's junior elite headline roster

Previous World Junior participants on the Team USA roster include 2006 World Junior 4x100m gold medalist Jeneba Tarmoh, 2006 World Junior 4x400m gold medalist and fifth-place finisher in the 400 meters Jessica Beard, and American Junior record-holding hammer thrower Walter Henning.

Other athletes to watch include 2007 World Youth triple jump champion Christian Taylor, 2007 World Youth 1,500m silver medalist and 2008 Olympic Trials finalist Jordan Hasay, 2007 Pan Am Junior 110m hurdle champion Johnny Dutch and 2008 NCAA champion Jeshua Anderson in the men's 400m hurdles, and 2008 NCAA pole vault champion Maston Wallace.

Head coaches for Team USA are John Moon of Seton Hall (men) and Patrick Shane of BYU (women). Head managers are Ken Brauman and Judy Harrison. For more information on Team USA and the World Junior Championships, visit www.usatf.org

Team USA Roster - 2008 IAAF World Junior Championships

Athlete (hometown) MEN 100m Antonio Sales (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Terrell Wilks (New Haven, Conn.) 200m Antonio Sales (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Curtis Mitchell (Chula Vista, Calif.) 400m O'Neal Wilder (Mississippi St, Miss.) Marcus Boyd (Waco, Texas) 800m Elijah Greer (Lake Oswego, Ore.) Donte Holmes (New Carrollton, Md.) 1,500m Duncan Phillips (Fayetteville, Ark.) Evan Jager (Algonquin, Ill.) 5,000m Matthew Centrowitz (Eugene, Ore.) Ryan Collins (Mansfield, Mass.) 10,000m Donald Cabral (Glastonbury, Conn.) Daniel Dunbar (O'Fallon, Ill.) 100m hurdles Ronald Brookins (Sacramento, Calif.) Booker Nunley (Garner, N.C.) 400m hurdles Jeshua Anderson (Mission Hills, Calif.) Johnny Dutch (Columbia, S.C.) 3,000m steeplechase Curtis Carr (Provo, Utah) Dylan Knight (Riverside, Calif.) Pole Vault Matson Wallace (Houston, Texas) Joseph Berry (Horsham, Penn.) High Jump Ryan Fleck (Napoleon, Ohio) Eric Kynard (Toledo, Ohio) Long Jump Marquis Goodwin (Rowlett, Texas) Christian Taylor (Atlanta, Ga.) Triple Jump Austin Davis (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Christian Taylor (Atlanta, Ga.) Shot Put Daniel Block (Hanover Park, Ill.) Eric Plummer (Plainfield, N.J.) Discus Throw Geoffrey Tabor (Ardmore, Okla.) Karl Gehrke (Moorpark, Calif.) Hammer Throw Walter Henning (South Huntington, N.Y.) Connor McCullough (Canoga Park, Calif.) Javelin Throw Luke Laird (Fayetteville, Ark.) Decathlon Weston Leutz (Bismark, N.D.) Chase Dalton (Tigard, Ore.) Men's 4x100m relay pool additional athletes Kenneth Ryan Bailey(Albany, OR) Justin Murdock(Pasadena, MD) Dante Sales(Lakeland, FL) Men's 4x400m relay pool additional athlete Bryan Miller(College Station, TX)
Athlete (hometown) WOMEN 100m Jeneba Tarmoh (Stockton, Calif.) Shayla Mahan (Columbia, S.C.) 200m Ashton Purvis (Oakland, Calif.) Tiffany Townsend (Waco, Texas) 400m Jessica Beard (Euclid, Ohio) Lanie Whittaker (Miami, Fla.) 800m Camilla Dencer (Northridge, Calif.) Sarah McCurdy (Brightwaters, N.Y.) 1,500m Jordan Hasay (Arroyo Grande, Calif.) Alexandra Kosinski (Eugene, Ore.) 3,000m Jordan Hasay (Arroyo Grande, Calif.) Laurynne Chetelat (Davis, Calif.) 5,000m Ashley Higginson (Marlboro, N.J.) Catherine White (Fayetteville, Ark.) 100m hurdles Teona Rodgers (Tallahassee, Fla.) Vashti Thomas (San Jose, Calif.) 400m hurdles Kori Carter (Claremont, Calif.) Takecia Jameson (Coral Gables, Fla.) 3,000m steeplechase Elizabeth Graney (Harper Woods, Mich.) Rebecca Wade (Dallas, Texas) Pole Vault Leslie Brost (Watertown, S.D.) Rachel Laurent (Houma, La.) High Jump Jessica Merriweather (Memphis, Tenn.) Shanay Briscoe (Houston, Texas) Long Jump Jamesha Youngblood (Eugene, Ore.) Shakia Forbes (South Orange, N.J.) Triple Jump Vashti Thomas (San Jose, Calif.) TiAra Walpool (Mahattan, Kan.) Shot Put Rebecca O'Brien (Cumberland, Maine) Chinwe Okoro (Darien, Ill.) Discus Anastasia Jelmini (Bakersfield, Calif.) Erin Pendleton (Elmore, Ohio) Hammer Throw Lauren Chambers (Acworth, Ga.) D'Ana McCarty (Indianapolis, Ind.) Javelin Throw Karlee McQuillen (Park, Penn.) Heptathlon Ryan Krais (Eagleville, Penn.) Erin Sampley (Lexington, Ky.) Women's 4x100m additional relay pool athlete Gabrielle Glenn(Matthews, NC) Women's 4x400m additional relay pool athletes Erica Alexander(Friendswood, TX) Porche Byrd(Covington, GA)