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DiMeo sports Wildcat colors while winning Minneapolis Half Marathon
Danny DiMeo runs toward victory in the Minneapolis Half Marathon.
6/10/2009 3:39:03 PM
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Danny DiMeo's foot was not going to get in the way of him winning the Minneapolis Half Marathon. Neither was anyone else's, for that matter. DiMeo, who missed most of his collegiate career with a broken foot and the complications that followed, won the Minneapolis Half Marathon on May 31, just one week after walking across the stage at University Stadium to receive his degree in economics.
He was certainly money in Minneapolis. DiMeo broke the tape in 1:15.04, bettering his nearest competitor, Evgeny Beletskiy of Minneapolis, by 12 seconds.
DiMeo just missed a top-20 finish at the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Championships as a freshman and his future looked very bright. However, he missed most of the next two years of competition with the foot injury. DiMeo returned in 2007 and enjoyed a top-25 finish at the Chico Invitational and notched a 10K in the 33:20s at the Almond Bowl foot race.
Chico State alumnus Danny DiMeo (far left) starts the Minneapolis Half Marathon.
In his final cross country campaign in 2008, DiMeo finished 78th out of more than 160 runners at the Aztec Cross Country Invitational in San Diego, and finished 13th at the San Francisco State Invitational, which proved to be his final collegiate race. DiMeo also served as the president of Chico State's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee during the fall semester.
Thanks to the amazing amount of energy and work that DiMeo put into this team and the athletic department during his time in Chico, his victory in Minneapolis was felt all the way out here in Northern California. Congratulations Danny!
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Women's Track
There’s something about the annual Chico Multi that always brings out the best in heptathlete Kelly Clancey. For the second straight year, the junior from Modesto earned an NCAA Championships provisional bid in the heptathlon during the two-day Chico Multi, collecting 4,743 total points over the seven events, easily surpassing the 4,400 points needed to secure the provisional bid.
Clancey was the dominant athlete in the 12-person field, taking first place in four of the seven hepthatlon events. She took top honors in the high jump (5 feet, 3.25 inches), long jump (17 feet, 9.5 inches), 100-meter hurdles (15.42 seconds) and the 800-meter run (2 minutes, 20.25 second), while finishing second in the 200-meter dash (26.34 seconds), fourth in the shot put and sixth in the javelin throw.
Clancey, already well ahead of last season's schedule in which she scored a 4,400 in the Chico Multi and went on to post a career-best 4,811 at the CCAA Championships and advance to the NCAA Championships, will try to better her provisional mark March 24-25 at the California Multi, hosted by UC Berkeley.
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Men's Golf
Sylvester Gama carded three consecutive sub-par rounds and finished alone in second place at 7-under par at the Coyote Classic last Monday and Tuesday. Gama, competing as an individual, finished six strokes clear of third place in a standout performance that was bettered only by Cal State San Bernardino's Gene Webster, Jr.
Gama went 2-under in the opening round on the par-70 course at Arrowhead Country Club. He went 1-under in the afternoon. And on Tuesday, Gama's 66 was bettered only by Webster and matched his teammate Kyle Souza for the third lowest round of the tournament.
A 6-foot senior from Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara CC), Gama has now gone under par in eight of his 16 rounds of the 2009-10 season. His stroke average of 72.1 is second on the Wildcats as are his three top-five finishes.
Those efforts have made him easily the team's most improved player thus far this season. His stroke average was 75.3 last season and he had just one top-10 finish - an eighth-place finish at the CCAA Championships.
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