3 California high jumpers triumph at trials

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On Friday night in Eugene, Ore., site of the U.S. Olympic track and field trials, three female high jumpers made the Beijing Olympic team and all three have California connections.

Trials winner Chaunte Howard is a 2002 graduate of North High in Riverside. Runner-up Amy Acuff, a 1997 UCLA graduate, qualified for her fourth Olympic team, and third-place finisher Sharon Day just finished her senior year at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

And, as Helene Elliott writes, all three have unusual twists to their triumphs.

-- Debbie Goffa