I believe the Keller duo of Julia Black and Abbey Santoro are both coming to Aggieland.

Also visiting this weekend with Tyrees Moulton are hurdle sisters Ariana Ealy-Pulido and Kattiana Ealy-Pulido and triple jumper CJ Stevenson (maybe triple jumper Ciyamon Stevenson brother) from California.

Ariana Ealy-Pulido
Personal Records

• 60mH (in) - 8.90
• 60m (in) - 8.02
• 100mH - 13.73
• 200m (in) - 25.38
• 200m - 25.16
• 300mH - 42.54
• 400mH - 1:02.60

Kattiana Ealy-Pulidoa
Personal Records

• 100mH - 13.92
• 100m - 12.46
• 400mH - 1:00.42

CJ Stevenson
Personal Records

• Long Jump - 23-3.5 (7.1m)
• Triple Jump - 50-4.5 (15.35m)

Ed Marcinkiewicz said:

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I believe the Keller duo of Julia Black and Abbey Santoro are both coming to Aggieland.

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Would love for them to come here. Should help with a couple of those underclassmen from Keller that are really good too.

DJ Henderson nation's top long jumper and now a senior at DeSoto High School just announced he'll take his talents to the Oregon Ducks and mostly likely room with top returning hurdler and recent signee Eric Edwards (also a Texas prep) Both had listed A&M as a school considered.

The saga continues. How could the top hurdler and top long jumper leave Texas for Oregon. What is Oregon offering that we cannot offer here. Athlete have the right to chose where they want to go but it seems like a big show with these athletes on milesplit and encouraging each other on twitter to go Oregon.

We have here
a great track record
a great indoor track
great coaches
soon to be a great outdoor track
one of the best education in the country
you are close to home so that family and friends could see you run
and you turn down that

Well Oregon mut be offering something better than that.
Are they planning to become the UCON of Women Basketball.

Then there is Texas Tech that many have chosen to go to. Then there the Junior college University Alabama with every possible junior college transfer.

When was the last top recruit in Texas in sprints, hurdles and jumps come to Texas A&M?

Texas A&M has not been a top three or top 5 recruiting class over the last five years but congtinue to be a top three at the NCAA. It shows the development of many average athletes. Texas A&M cotinues to focus on development of athletes rather grabbing athletes just to win a championship. Look at our Roster and tell me how many transfers do we have on roster. Some schools have more than 50% of their roster are transfers and some rosters don't even indicate that the athletes transferred.

Looking forward to this season to see how many of our average athletes develop. Jazmine Fray came to A&M as a 2.10 in 800m when all the top 800m runners in Texas refused to come here and in two seasons has the NCAA indoor 800m record. That is development for your money. Look at Donavan Brazier in one season went from 1.48 to 1.43 in the 800m. Then there is Shamier Little and Fred Kerley and I could go on and on. Fred was a 47 second quartermiler to the NCAA record in two years. If wasn't for hi injury last year he would done even better last year. I say no more. I guess I am biased because I am an Aggie

Our recruiting classes on both sides will be more than fine. Be patient.

We have had very solid transfers lately -- both Kerley's, Grant (that's 3/4 of the NCAA champion relay), Will Williams, Kadecia Baird and Carlton Orange have all been solid, if not spectacular. Even Christian Farris, our top XC runner at SEC's last weekend, was a transfer.

Both Fred Kerley and Wil Williams were original A&M signees in 2013 but had to go the route of Junior College before becoming eligible again.
See Dyestat A&M signees list for 2013

http://parser.dyestat.com/search.jsp?colID=7054#top

Forgot about Victor. He turned out pretty good too.

Welcome to Aggieland, Julia!

Look Out Below said:

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Our recruiting classes on both sides will be more than fine. Be patient.

We have had very solid transfers lately -- both Kerley's, Grant (that's 3/4 of the NCAA champion relay), Will Williams, Kadecia Baird and Carlton Orange have all been solid, if not spectacular. Even Christian Farris, our top XC runner at SEC's last weekend, was a transfer.

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Agreed. We can't sign everyone. We've got a week to signing day and kids are still taking some visits, so the decisions will be out soon. If I was a tu fan, I'd be worried - no commits at all for them.

State XC results:
Carrie Fish, 17:29.48 - 2nd (5A)/1st place team
Julia Black, 17:25.44 - 2nd (6A) - unofficial/1st place team
Wes McPhail - 62nd(6A)

Others of Interest
London Culbreath 16:55.95- 1st (5A)
Abbey Santoro, 17:40.86 - 8th (6A)
Quinn Owen - 10th (6A) Ark commit.
Ashlyn Hillyard 17:25.68- 3rd (6A)
Adam Dayani -11th(6A)

Two (somewhat) local seniors did all right:

Evan Del Rio -Huntsville 11th 15:44 (5A)

Levi Alexander - A&M Consolidated 18th 15:53 (5A)

Nice pick by the Aggies

Nicholas Mirabelli was the 5th rank Javelin thrower in 2017 and 3rd rank returning athlete for 2018

JAVELIN boys top 10 2017 rankings
228-0 Liam Christensen (Academic, North Charleston, SC)
220-11 Cade Antonucci (Holy Spirit, Absecon, NJ)
216-2 *Sawyer Christopher (Lincoln, Portland, Or)
215-7 *Chandler Ault (Home, Midland, Mi)
213-5 **Nicholas Mirabelli (Rancocas Valley, Mt Holly, NJ)
212-10 *Gavin Darcy (Dunmore, Pa)
212-2 Alexander Georgiou (Timber Creek, Erial, NJ)
211-1 Curtis Stradley (Battle Ground, Wa)
209-4 Steven Jernee (Ocean City, NJ)
208-10 Alec Collins (Trinity, Sharpsburg, Ga)

400 runner Tyrees Moulton (46.51) out of Arizona just committed to Miami.

They don't want to come here then just go international. There are alot of international athletes would love to come here. Just wasting time on these athletes and they know pretty well they don't want to come here. Just check all of their tweets you can tell where they going before they announce.

Just to prove a point
Just look at 2017 top 20 high boys in 100m

100 METERS
10.15 *Anthony Schwartz (American Heritage, Plantation, Fl)
10.22 *Kalon Barnes (Silsbee, Tx)
10.31 Caleb Jolivette (Manvel, Tx)
10.32 *Kesean Carter (The Woodlands, Tx)
Isaiah Cunningham (Rancho Verde, Moreno Valley, Ca)
*Keishawn Everly (Trimble, Ft Worth, Tx)
10.34 Javelin Guidry (Vista Murrieta, Murrieta, Ca)
Roman Turner (Hirschi, Wichita Falls, Tx)
10.36 Jeffery Hulon (West Brook, Beaumont, Tx)
10.39 Joseph Sheffield (Rowlett, Tx)
10.40 Chauncy Smart (Auburndale, Fl)
10.41 *Cole Beck (Blacksburg, Va)
*Tyson Campbell (American Heritage, Plantation, Fl)
Japheth Morris (Appling, Baxley, Ga)
10.42 *Ronald Fuller (Lower Richland, Hopkins, SC)
10.43 Rikkoi Brathwaite' (IMG, Bradenton, Fl)
Journey Brown (Meadville, Pa)
Khance Meyers (East, Kentwood, Mi)
10.44 Josh Lister (Haughton, La)
10.45 Nick Alexander (Sachse, Tx)
*Asani Hampton (Yucaipa, Ca)
*Terrence Horne (Miramar, Fl)
*Craig Williams (Crosby, Tx)
10.46 **Tyrese Cooper (Norland, Miami Gardens, Fl)
*Jabriel Smith (North, Riverside, Ca)

How many Texas athletes in the top 10. There are seven Texas boys in the top 10 100m in the country. I haven't seen any of them committed to Texas A&M in 2017 or for 2018. This is just 100m alone.
Time to look for some good international athletes.

Is it true? I heard Ryan Trahan (freshman) distance runner is leaving college (not transferring).

The above twitter commitment is Jania Martin from McKinney North, Texas,

Personal Records

• 60m (in) - 7.90
• 100m - 11.76
• 200m (in) - 24.27
• 200m - 23.58
• 400m - 54.58
• Long Jump - 17-11

Another solid recruit

Abbey Santoro

Yes Ryan Trahan is leaving school to grow his business

http://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Texas-AM-cross-country-leaving-school-to-pursue-business--455738843.html

McRaven is on damn fire!

That's the two fastest female seniors in the state in 6A and the state's fastest in 5A. That is quite a coup! Two solid guys in McPhail and Grant too.

Brady is a good steepler. Finished just behind Zephyr Seagraves at the Texas Relays this year.

aggiepe said:

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The saga continues. How could the top hurdler and top long jumper leave Texas for Oregon. What is Oregon offering that we cannot offer here. Athlete have the right to chose where they want to go but it seems like a big show with these athletes on milesplit and encouraging each other on twitter to go Oregon.

We have here
a great track record
a great indoor track
great coaches
soon to be a great outdoor track
one of the best education in the country
you are close to home so that family and friends could see you run
and you turn down that

Well Oregon mut be offering something better than that.
Are they planning to become the UCON of Women Basketball.

Then there is Texas Tech that many have chosen to go to. Then there the Junior college University Alabama with every possible junior college transfer.

When was the last top recruit in Texas in sprints, hurdles and jumps come to Texas A&M?

Texas A&M has not been a top three or top 5 recruiting class over the last five years but congtinue to be a top three at the NCAA. It shows the development of many average athletes. Texas A&M cotinues to focus on development of athletes rather grabbing athletes just to win a championship. Look at our Roster and tell me how many transfers do we have on roster. Some schools have more than 50% of their roster are transfers and some rosters don't even indicate that the athletes transferred.

Looking forward to this season to see how many of our average athletes develop. Jazmine Fray came to A&M as a 2.10 in 800m when all the top 800m runners in Texas refused to come here and in two seasons has the NCAA indoor 800m record. That is development for your money. Look at Donavan Brazier in one season went from 1.48 to 1.43 in the 800m. Then there is Shamier Little and Fred Kerley and I could go on and on. Fred was a 47 second quartermiler to the NCAA record in two years. If wasn't for hi injury last year he would done even better last year. I say no more. I guess I am biased because I am an Aggie

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Oregon holds the NCAA track and field championships essentially ever year. That's a HUGE Advantage for them.

A big time pickup in Masai Russell.

Also, the UIL holds the track & field champs in Austin and the XC champs at Round Rock so kudos to McRaven for being persistent in recruiting the distance athletes.