FOCUSED SCHOLARS AND ATHLETES
"Running To Our Future"
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything
can happen, child. Anything can be."
"There is no better investment
of time and money than in the
life of a child. They are
the future' -Alma Powell
Jeuness Track Club Invitational
Saturday, June 13, 2009
BREAKING JEUNES NEWS!!
COACHES CORNER: The coaches are very proud to announce that our own Yazmin Jones was invited to the PSAL (public high school) Championships – Middle School Invitational 400 meter race which took place at the 168 Street Armory last Saturday February 28. Yazmin, who is in the seventh grade, ran against an all-eighth grade field and placed a very impressive third overall, with an even more impressive time of 60.8. This was certainly Yazmin’s best time this year!
She represented her middle school and Jeuness with a great race and we are quite proud. We are all looking forward to an impressive outdoor season, and big things to come from Yazmin as she continues to improve!
Congratulations Yazmin on being invited and running a great time!
GoGirlGo!
Ambassador Team Awards Success Story
Women's Sports Foundation
Founded by Billie Jean King
Featured in 2006 WSF Annual Report
Scholars & Athletes
Coach Jean Bell, Esq.
To support or sponsor, please call Kimberly Jones
(917)294-0982
A not-for--profit 501c3 Organization
Checks p
ayable to Jeuness Track ClubMail to:
Kimberly Jones
41 Wayne Street Apt #6B
Staten Island, NY 10310
Your support will help the team finance an indoor training track,
scholarships and send team to out-of-town meets and Nationals
Thank You!
A SHORT HISTORY
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.
The 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. We encourage high school athletes to compete with both school and club in order to get the maximum 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, 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.
“Our success is measured not in time or distance, but in degrees – received”.
'RUNNING TO OUR FUTURE’
Jean E. Bell, Esq
Founder & Head Coach
"If one advances confidently in the
direction of his dreams, and endeavors
to live the life he has imagined,
he will meet with a success
unexpected in common hours."
The Wilson and Jones families proudly support
Jeuness Track Team
