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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Mason grad Bizzarri looks to qualify for World Championships
Mason High graduate and University of Illinois standout Angela Bizzarri will race in the 5,000-meter event at the Liege in Belgium on Wednesday, July 15.
The Liege serves as an opportunity for athletes to meet the standards for the upcoming World Championships, which are in Berlin, Germany, beginning Aug. 15.
The 5,000 race starts at 8:40 p.m. Belgium time. They are six hours ahead of us here.
Bizzarri, a seven-time All-American and a national champion, needs to run a 15:25 to qualify for the World Championships. She set herself up for this opportunity after finishing third and running a personal-best 15:33.02 at the USA Track and Field Championships in June.
Here is a link to a Q&A with Bizzarri from the Illinois sports information department: http://www.fightingillini.com/sports/w-track/spec-rel/071409aac.html
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Mason’s Wills attracting big-time college interest
Mason High’s Zach Wills will only be a junior, but he has certainly received plenty of interest from Division I colleges.
Mason boys track coach Chip Dobson said Wills has received letters from schools such as Ohio State, Michigan, Indiana, Purdue, Washington, Arizona, Harvard, Yale and Cornell.
Dobson also said Wills — who would run track and cross country at the next level — is really interested in the “big hitters,” like Oregon and Stanford.
“Whether or not it’s in the cards is yet to be seen,” Dobson said. “He’s getting to the level where those would be in the cards. I think Oregon would be his first choice.”
Wills placed ninth in the 3,000-meter race at the 6th IAAF World Youth Championships in Sudtirol, Italy, on Sunday, July 12.
