Jordan Scales and Brandon Collins, teammates from the 2007 Whitewater Middle School track & field championship team, are headed to the 2007 National Junior Olympics to represent the SouthSide Pioneers Track & Field Club. Collins recently broke the Youth Boys record in the 100-meter dash with an 11.22-second time at the 2007 AAU National Club Championship meet held recently at the World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. Collins also took fourth in the Youth Boys 200-meter dash and has advanced to compete in the 2007 AAU National Track & Field Junior Olympics later this month at the University of Tennessee.

Scales took the bronze medal in the youth boys triple jump at the 2007 USATF Region 3 Championship this past weekend at the Sportsbacker Stadium in Richmond, Virginia. Scales has now advanced to compete at the 2007 USATF National Junior Olympics in Walnut, California, later this month.

Ironically, Collins and Scales broke the 2005 Flat Rock Middle School boys track & field record in the 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relays, and are now teamming up with the former record holders, track and field state champions Michael DeHaven, Johnathan Ross, Brendan Fludd and David Mathis, all of whom are members of the SouthSide Pioneers Track & FIeld Club.

The team seeks sponsors for all its Junior Olympian athletes who are as follows: Youth Boys: Brandon Collins and Jordan Scales (WhiteWater HS); Michael DeHaven (Sandy Creek HS/Auburn U); Brendan Fludd (Sandy Creek HS/Morehouse College); James Mathis (Sandy Creek HS/Norfolk State U); Hughston Taylor and Vince Brown (McIntosh HS); Chris Pigue (Fayette County HS/Albany State U); Joy Ferrell (Westminster HS/University of Arizona); Joshua Ferrell; and Kayla Smith (Fayette Intermediate School).

The SSPioneers also seek sponsors for the following athletes as they prepare to represent the team at the 2007 State Games of America on August 4 at the US Air FOrce Academy in Colorado Springe, CO: Johnathan Ross (Sandy Creek HS); Theo Echols (Starr's Mill HS), Elliott Dixon (Sandy Creek HS/UGA), Kendra Newsome and Alyssa Rooks (Sandy Creek HS). If you are interested in becoming a corporate or private sponsor for any of these athletes, please contact coach Danielle Mathis at sspioneers@netzero.com.

The SouthSide Pioneers will compete at the 2007 Georgia Games this weekend at Marietta High School as part of the team's year-end team tradition.

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