Thursday, Jun. 18, 2009
Track and Field: Jordan Hasay honored by prep Web site
MaxPreps.com names Mission Prep running star its national high school female athlete of the year
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closeMission Prep junior Jedd Hasay is prepping this summer to try and earn some time at quarterback for the Royals football team next fall.
Thursday morning, his offseason dedication led him to MaxPreps.com, which is something like the high school football player’s online bible.
The Web site rose to prominence this decade chiefly as a resource for statistics, schedules and rosters for high school sports’ big three — football, basketball and baseball.
Imagine Jedd’s surprise at seeing a picture of sister Jordan, Mission Prep’s superstar senior track and field phenom, front and center on a site where football is king.
The morning after Jordan Hasay was honored as the valedictorian at Mission Prep’s graduation ceremony, the Oregon-bound newly crowned four-time state champion found out through Jedd that she was named MaxPreps.com’s national Female Athlete of the Year.
It makes sense considering she received the same honor from Gatorade earlier this year, but it’s also a big upset for distance running and the sport of track and field to get this much publicity on a site so heavily geared toward other sports.
“I mostly go to the Web site to look for stats for my friends that play basketball or baseball,” Jordan Hasay said. “I’m just really honored, and I think it’s really cool for the running community that they would choose a runner.”
Hasay has been a media darling in the running community since she burst on the scene as a record-breaking middle-schooler from Arroyo Grande.
She has graced the cover of Track and Field News, becoming only the second high school girl to do so since the magazine adopted full-cover photos in 1968. She’s been almost constantly featured on DyeStatCal.com, the state’s leading source on high school track and field.
It seems, however, ever since her breakout performance at the nationally televised U.S. Olympic Trials last summer — where she went from being left out of the field to finishing in the top 10 — Hasay has broken into the mainstream.
After her performance at the Trials, Track and Field News and DyeStat features turned into ESPN and the Los Angeles Times features. “I am happy to see her get the acknowledgement, the recognition that she gets,” said Armando Siquieros, Hasay’s high school coach the past four years.
“She’s a tremendous athlete. She’s able to set her sights on a goal and focus towards it. Her ability to perform under all kinds of circumstances and pressures are as good as anybody I’ve ever seen.”
Hasay bookended her high school running career with wins at the Foot Locker National Cross Country Championships. She became the first girl to win four straight CIF titles in the 3,200 meters. And she set some sort of record in many of her races, the most notable being the 4 minutes, 14.50 seconds she logged in the 1,500 at the Olympic Trials to set the national high school record.
Hasay will next compete at the U.S. Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore., on June 25-28, running the 1,500 again against the best in the country and in front of another national TV audience.
It will be her final meet before joining Oregon’s women’s cross country team next fall, and the latest honor is one of many exclamation points for her.
“It’s really special for me just to be able to win these awards to represent Mission,” Hasay said. “It’s kind of just a good way to wrap up my whole high school career.”
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