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Mock City Track 2013- Relays

Sharvon Johnson(so) and Phillips are ready to heat it up at the varsity level after doing well at the CPS sophomore meet last year. With season best times of 43.77 in the 4x100 and 1:31.69 in the 4x200, Phillips will be a major player in relays and some individual events in this Wednesday's Boys varsity trials at Hanson.

(note: this was made before official entries were turned in)

4x800
1. Lane Tech
2. Jones
3. Whitney Young
4. Northside
5. Mather
6. Payton
7. Steinmetz
8. Taft

9. Hubbard
10. North Lawndale
11. Kennedy
12. Lake View

4x200
1. Robeson
2. Lane Tech
3. Phillips
4. Dunbar
5. Whitney Young
6. Calumet
7. Clark
8. Payton

(Note: I feel that North Lawndale will probably not stack up a team in the 4x200)

4x100
1. North Lawndale
2. Phillips
3. Calumet
4. Lane Tech
5. Dunbar
6. Brooks
7. Robeson
8. Westinghouse

4x400
1. North Lawndale
2. Whitney Young
3. Brooks
4. Lane Tech
5. Robeson
6. Payton
7. Jones
8. Calumet

Phillips Sprinters Shine at Lisle Megameet

Results

THEY ARE BACK!!

Lane, Morgan Park, Phillips Post Big Wins



Lane Tech - After a rough couple of seasons of poor records, missed playoffs, and all even I did not see this 48-0 win over Dunbar coming. It's not that they won, but that they won by 48 points.  Rarely do you see a running clock on Dunbar by a CPS team. Talks of state and city playoffs are definitely here at Lane.

Morgan Park - Morgan Park was not really down conference wise last year as they did win conference last year. But they were down for Morgan Park standards as for not going deep in the city or state playoffs. Add all the coaching changes and huckus and you had some talking rebuilding for Morgan Park this year. But after yesterday's 16-8 win over conference foe Robeson, Morgan Park is in the drivers seat for another conference title and confidence to go much deeper in the playoffs.

Phillips- Phillips is a school with a storied football past. This is a program that used to play or challenge for the Prep Bowl. But the last couple of decades, Phillips has been for the most part largely down. Phillips is becoming relevant again after their program changing win over King. Phillips does not have not have the name recognition stars, but they do have the players and coaching staff with desire. Phillips is in position to win conference and go back to the playoffs again.

Pictures Now - CPS Sophomore Boys Track 2012

Sharvon Johnson(fr) of Phillips in 4x200 action.

Photo Album

 

Lane, Dunbar, Phillips, Jones all look good at Frosh-Soph Prelims

Ben Satterfield(so) and Phillips looked very strong today in sprints. It seemed like it was all Phillips blue in the top spots of practically every sprint event.

I just got back from the CPS Frosh-Soph Prelim meet at Hanson. Here is my quick take on how some of the teams performed.

Jones-Distance Kings
Jones is looking to look like the Lake Park of distance. Jones easily qualified two runners each in the 800 and 1600. Plus they had the fastest time in the 4x800 relay with an unofficial 9:03 and got freshman Mark Protsiv qualify in the 400. Add, the fact that they will surely score 2 runners very high in the 3200 meter you got the makings of some points in the finals.

Phillips- Sprints Specialties
Phiilps is starting to look like it has the makings of being the Phillips has one of the best if not the best frosh-soph sprint suad in the city. I think Jones qualified 1 if not 2 individuals in the 100, 200, 400. And I think they qualified all the sprint relays 4x1, 4x2, and 4x4. I'm sure they Phillips really hit the weight room, because their guys are some of the leanest and most muscular freshman and sophomores that I have seen. One runner looked like he was 19 and built like Mack Truck. (I would not want ot play them in football).

Dunbar- Field Extraordinaires
Dunbar has by far the best throws team. Freshman Nevell Floydand Jason Dawson were 1-3 in the discus. Carzelle Elicke(so) looked solid in qualifying in the long jump and triple jump. He also qualified for the 300 hurdels finals.  Also, I heard they had 2 qualifiers in the high jump. The Mighty Men qualified in almost all the sprint relays and the 100 led by sprinter Demoria Harris(fr).

Lane Tech- overall
The results are not in yet, but it looks like after Prelims Lane Tech will have the most overall qualifers. The Indians qualified 2 runners in all the distance events, took 2nd in the 4x8, got in with almost all the sprint relays, and got enough qualifiers in hurdles and field events to make them probably the favorite going into the finals. 

Coach Craig Collins Leaves Phillips for Chicago State

Coach Craig Collins (center) left a promising Phillips program to try to build a track program at Chicago State.

Craig Collins is known in CPS track circles having coached at North Lawndale (yes that North Lawndale) and most recently at Phillips. At Phillips last year, he was at the starting stages of developing a real track program. He had a good start at Phillips where he led a Phillips team to an 11th place finish at the CPS frosh-soph meet. 11th place does not sound like a lot, but believe me at Phillps, a school which has not seen any kind of track pulse let alone success for decades, having a team that scores points is a major step in the right direction.

That is why, when I heard Collins left to accept the coaching job at Chicago State, I was mildly surprised. I was hoping Collins would continue to develop the Phillips program. See developing a track program takes at least 4-5 years to develop. At the same time, I am happy for Collins to be at Chicago State.

He will truly be developing that program. Chicago State (on 95th street), is one of those colleges that has had a very difficult time developing any kind of track program. There are many junior colleges that are much more advanced in their development stages compared to Chicago State.

"I plan on giving Chicago State my full effort, I'll give it at least 5 years no matter what happens," said Collins.

 I wish Coach Collins luck in his new endeavor.

Neilski's Chicago Conference Projections

At a small school like Phillips, if you are an athlete you play multiple sports like 4-sport(football, basketball, track, and baseball) star running back and sometime quarterback Jarvis Robinson(6-0, 175lbs, sr).

Chicago Big Shoulders
1. Foreman
2. Taft
3. Clemente
4. Schurz
5. Mather
6. Steinmetz
7. Prosser
8. Lincoln Park

Chicago Great Lakes
1. Westinghouse
2. Lindblom
3. Payton
4. Agriculture Science
5. Bowen
6. Phillips
7. Dyett
8. Phoenix

Chicago Second City
1. Kenwood
2. Austin
3. Kelly
4. Uplift
5. Dusable
6. Chicago Academy
7. Douglass
8. Urban Prep-Englewood

Chicago Windy City
1. Hyde Park
2. Gage Park
3. Perspectives-Calumet
4. TEAM Englewood
5. Marshall
6. Little Village
7. Manley
8. South Shore

Inter-City Conferences Projections

Phillips Wildcats - Football Team Preview

Jarvis Robinson(jr) is an all-everything athlete at Phillips that any school would love to have. He plays QB and Running Back for the football team, plays guard on the basketball team, stars as a sprinter for the track team, and even plays on the baseball team.

Last Year's Stats
conference: Chicago-Second City
record: 6-3 (5-2 conference)
playoffs: missed playoffs

2009-10 season results

  W  32  6  1-8  Chicago (TEAM Englewood)        
  L  10  16  3-6  Chicago (South Shore)          
  L  6  28  5-4 *Chicago (Uplift)            
  W  28  13  0-9 *Chicago (C. Military Academy-Bronzevill 
  W  14  0  5-4 *Chicago (Urban Prep Charter)      
  W  32  24  1-8 *Chicago (DuSable)            
  W  60  14  3-6 *Chicago (C. Academy)          
  L  6  38  8-2 *Chicago (Raby)             
  W  40  0  4-5 *Chicago (Douglass) 

Players to Look Out For
Jarvis Robinson (jr) QB/RB
Mike Pryor (sr) 5-8, 145lbs WR/CB
Quinton Mays (sr) 5-8, 135lbs QB/RB/SS
Armani Bell (sr) 5-11, 265lbs DT/G
Cullum Andruis (sr) 5-11, 185lb LB/DT

Last Year

After going 0-8 in 2008, not much was expected out of Phillips in the Chicago-Second City, a conference reconstituted for small schools and emerging programs. But after a shaky first conference game 28-6 loss to Uplift, Phillips streaked to 4 conference wins in a row before finally sub coming to conference champion Al Raby.

2010-11 Outlook

Phillips will not be overlooked this year as they return several key players from last years squad. The biggest name will be 4 sport (football, track, basketball, baseball) all-athlete Jarvis Robinson. Robinson is well suited for the Phillips offense where he can play either quarterback or running back. The Wildcats can also use Mike Pryor (sr) at the quarterback or running back role.

At Phillips all the top athletes play both ways. They have a big guy at 5-11 265lbs in Armani Bell, a returning defensive tackle and guard. Bell has some deceptive speed for a guy his size. Also look for returnee Cullum Andrius who is listed as a linebacker or defensive tackle.

The Phillips schedule has not been fully released yet. The only game I know of is a week 2 game against University of Chicago Charter School.

Related
Top CPS Running Backs
Top CPS Quarter Backs
CPS Football Fan Page
CVS - Team Preview
Curie- Team Preview
Urban Prep Team Preview, Part 1  Part 2

Shake Up at Marshall and Phillips

Marshall's track team could get shaken up.

The CPS has decided to designate Phillips and Marshall High Schools as "Turn-around" schools. Meaning, the schools are performing so bad that they will do an overhaul in the enitre schools. The schools will not close. Instead, the schools according to the Chicago Tribune will be ""turned around" by operators who will overhaul staff and offer new resources in an attempt to create a new school culture."

This means they will fire ALL the current teachers and staff and hire a completely new staff. The fired teachers are eligible to re-apply.

One person that will stay is legendary Marshall basketball coach Dorothy Gaters. She was given the assurance that her job will remain safe.

I'm not really sure about the fate of the coaching staff of Marshall's other sports including football and track. Marshall finished 20th in the city in boys track at the varsity level, scored 0 points at the frosh-soph level, and they qualified 3 individuals to the boys class AA state meet including promising sophomore discus thrower Dameon Reed.

Phillips had  a track team last year but scored 0 points at the frosh-soph and varsity levels.