Waukegan team in AAU meet

July 12, 2008
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NEWS-SUN STAFF REPORT

Fourteen-year-old Megan Paul was the star of the meet for the Waukegan-based Invaders youth track team which competed recently at the AAU Region 6B Track & Field Championships at Illinois State University in Normal.

Paul won the 100-meter dash (12.68 seconds), the 200 (25.42) and the 400 (57.71) to qualify for AAU nationals in all three events.
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Several members of the Waukegan Invaders youth track team qualified for the AAU national meet by running/throwing well in a qualifying meet in downstate Normal.
(Special to the News-Sun)

The top four finishers in each event advance to the national meet in Detroit.

All told, 10 members of the Invaders qualified for nationals.

That includes Caroline Carmichael , who finished first in the age 14 pentathlon (100 hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump & 800 run).

QUALIFIERS FOR AAU NATIONALS

Boys

• Age 8 -- Charles Taylor (2nd in 400 & 1st in 800); Nathaniel Wells (2nd, 800).

• Age 9 -- Melvin Pettis (2nd in long jump); Thomas Mosley (2nd in 400 & 1st in 800).

• Age 10 -- Trey Nickerson (3rd in 400).

• Age 12 -- Derrick Nickerson (3rd in 400).

• Age 14 -- Anthony Paul (2nd in 100).

Girls
• Age 14 -- Megan Paul (1st in 100, 200 and 400); Kerrie Spaven (2nd, discus & 3rd, shot put); Caroline Carmichael (1st, pentathlon & 3rd, heptathlon). YOUTH TRACK