BROOKLYN, NY, December 03, 2008
/24-7PressRelease/ -- The Jeuness Track Club Inc. is a grass roots community-based track club for girls which was founded in 1985, to provide its members with athletic and educational opportunities, through track and field competition. The program is based in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn for training, but the girls compete throughout the city and nationally.
"The objective of the team is to assist young girls in excelling in the sport beginning at the grammar school level and
continuing through high school. "Our goal is for the girls to move on to the college level with the aid of athletic scholarships.
Hence, the program emphasizes the importance of educational as well as physical excellence"
says Head Coach and Founder, Jean Bell, Esq.
Team members are exposed to a wide variety of competitions, both locally and nationally. Many of the members become the
focus of college coaches at national meets, or through local press. College coaches contact the club annually and site visits are often arranged. High School athletes are encouraged to compete with both school and club in order to get the maximum
amount of exposure.
At present the club serves approximately thirty-five members. The members range in age from five to seventeen. All
members train four days per week, for approximately two hours, and compete on weekends.
Four female coaches with over thirty years of running and coaching experience staff the team.
In recent years, the team has been a prominent force in the "age-group" track and field community. Every year team members from Jeuness Track Club are semi-finalists and finalists in the Colgate Women's Games Series held annually in NYC.
Each summer team members compete and place at national meets across the country. In 2003, our 11-12 age group 4 x 400 meter relay won first place at the Amateur Athletic Union Junior Olympic Championships held in Detroit, Michigan. A team of nine members won a total of seven medals at the 2004 nationals in Iowa, with a first place finish in the 9 year old division of the 800 meters. In 2005 a team member placed second in the finals of the 11 year old division of the 1500 and 800 meter runs in the nationals in New Orleans, Louisiana, while others won four other medals in other events.
Several team members have been and are presently, nationally ranked as some of the top runners in the country. Some have achieved fame as members of the USA Junior national team, and as teenagers have traveled to compete in the World Junior Championships in Korea, and throughout Europe. One previous member of the team competed in the 400 meter hurdles at the Olympic trials in 2000, and 2004.
"Although our running accomplishments are many" coach Bell stresses "we are most proud of those members who have left
the team with a higher purpose. Alumni members of the team have gone on , with the assistance of track scholarships, to
attend, compete, and graduate from the University of Illinois, Howard University, The University of Maryland, Georgetown
University, Delaware State, The University of Texas, Essex College of Maryland, Manhattan College, St. Johns University, St
Francis College, and C.W.Post. This is our goal for each member and is counted as our greatest victories."
Sprinter, Yazmin Jones, dubbed "Top-Model" by her team mates, expresses her future goals saying "I want to go to Harvard,
run in the Olympics and then go to Law School."
"Our success is measured not in time or distance, but in degrees - received" coach Bell adds.
Jeuness Track Club is a recepient of the Billie Jean King Women's Sports Foundation GoGirlGo! Team Ambassador Award
for Success. The team, a not-for-profit 501c3 organization welcomes your support and sponsorship to help pay for an indoor
training facility; and to help send the girls to out-of-town meets and Nationals.
Please call Teresa Knight, MD at (347)721-5985 for more information.
'RUNNING TO OUR FUTURE'
The girls on Jeuness Track Team are polished in every sense of the word. They are role-models by example, and future leaders.
For more information please contact Sonia Wilson at (718)940-0949. You may also visit http://www.soniawilson.com where a photo and more details appear on "Home" page.
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Sonia E. Wilson
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