California community college championships runs 9.93. Pulls away and destroys a great 10.22 runner.
California community college championships runs 9.93. Pulls away and destroys a great 10.22 runner.
Wow. +1.8 wind.
Equals Dix' ACR from '07.
Merrit College? aka "U.C. Berkeley for Dummies"
High Wire wrote:
Wow. +1.8 wind.
Equals Dix' ACR from '07.
If you looked it up, you would see that he's from Jamaica.
He's also 22, which is pretty old for JuCo.
the community colleges are the pipeline into the UC system.
Incredible time to come out of the California CC system. Will need validation, but then if he's out of Jamaica maybe that explains that. 9.93!!!
His pr's on the iaaf site were 10.13 with .6 wind and 20.38 from last month:
And coached by Remi Korchemny who is banned for life.
Good god tell me that's not true....
Thurderbird wrote:
And coached by Remi Korchemny who is banned for life.
he is 21 (for a couple of more months) and is coached by brock drazen. http://www.merritt.edu/wp/track/coaches-2/
Brock Drazen is the head coach ......And if you really think he is coaching him you keep thinking that.
Really Doug wrote:
Brock Drazen is the head coach ......And if you really think he is coaching him you keep thinking that.
i would think that when a school only has 1 coach he would coach all the athletes on his team.
if korchemny was an assistant wouldnt he be on the coaching staff roster?
and why would a coach, have an assistant who is banned from the sport working with him?
and when a coach at a little rinky dink school gets a athlete of that caliber, why wouldnt he want to coach him and take all the credit?
it's not like that coach is at texas A&M where top athletes just come to the school constantly.
C'mon DB think a little.
Lots of talented sprinters have been developed at Merritt. Very underrated program. Great place to train, brand new track and beautiful surrounding area in the Oakland Hills.
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5632757&page=0A Sample wrote:
Good god tell me that's not true....
Thurderbird wrote:And coached by Remi Korchemny who is banned for life.
Remi's name was taken off the merritt college website shortly after I started that thread. I am actually not sure if he is still officially coachimg at Merritt or if they just pulled his name off the site for appearances.At any rate, Kemarley Brown isn't the only fast athlete Remi is currently coaching. I have seen him working with Kevin Craddock this season, who qualified for usatf nationals in the 110m hurdles again this year.I would point out that this is the first season Remi has worked with Kemarley, and he has improved to a 9.93 this season from what, a 10.3? Massive improvement at 23 in one season while working with a coach with a lifetime ban from the Balco scandal. Brock (head Merritt coach) is a lawyer by training and previous career, so as he probably knows, it doesn't get any stronger circumstantial evidence than that, but it is still just circumstantial, no matter how damning.Also, as most of my fellow coaches probably know, jucos don't test...Kemarley is jamaican, and it isn't like Jamaica has been known for their stringent testing practices recently.You really can't make this stuff up to be any more ridiculous. I can't believe how many naysayers I had in that last thread. One person even defended Remi as a juco coach saying there would be no incentive for him to dope relatively slow athletes. I pointed out at the time that Kemarley had just arrived to the team, but even I wasn't cynical enough to think Remi's magic touch would result in this big of an improvement.
Insufferable Know-It-All wrote:
A Sample wrote:http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5632757&page=0Good god tell me that's not true....
Oh and for the data, I looked it up, kemarley improved from 10.38 to 9.93 this year. I assume most people on this forums know how massive oand unbelievable of an improvement this is. This would be equivalent of going from a 4:10 mile to maybe 3:53 mile or so in one season, just unheard of.
There are a lot of obvious losers in this story, namely our sport in general, but one most people wouldn't think of is Brock, the head coach at Merritt. The guy really cares about his athletes and really works hard and left a law career to be a coach, and his facebook posts make is clear how excited he is about this, but everybody around him is goimg to know what a shame this is, even if he isn't directly responsible for Kemarley's obvious (admittedly obvious in my opinion, that is) doping. It is really a shame for all of us who love this sport. Something is gonna give, and I am just afraid it will be the death of the sport I lovw.
If there's so little money in track, how do people like Remi K. make a living?
9.93 and he is not competing against the top guys in the country?
Will he run the Jamaican National Champs this year?
So that's a 0.45 improvement in a year. I remember sprintgeezer had pointed out all sorts of athletes who had a 0.5 improvement in 1 or 2 years, as one sign of doping. I guess we can add Brown to that list, which I will try to find in the posts.
It is incredible that this sort of thing can still happen. No testing at JUCO's? What a great place to hide out and dope for a while.
Ben L Wrong wrote:
9.93 and he is not competing against the top guys in the country?
Will he run the Jamaican National Champs this year?
Competing against the top guys in the country = competing at top meets = drug testing.
We will see if he ends up running at any meets that test this summer or if he ends his track season now.
Word around the bay is that Merritt has a BIG recruiting class this year. Should be and interesting 2015 season