Cross country: CdM runners commit

Richard Dunn

CORONA DEL MAR - Three Corona del Mar High cross country and track

standouts, two girls and one boy, committed Tuesday to Ivy League schools

to continue their athletic careers.

Josh Yelsey, the fastest returning 1,600-meter boy runner in Orange

County with a clocking of 4:20, will compete at Yale next season, CdM

Coach Bill Sumner said.

In cross country the past two seasons, Yelsey qualified as an

individual for the CIF State Championships at Woodward Park in Fresno.

Two CdM girls, meanwhile, Jenny Cummins and Katie Quinlan, committed

to Yale and Brown, respectively.

Cummins, who will enter the 2001 prep track and field season with the

county’s best 800-meter time, and Quinlan both ran on the Sea Kings’

back-to-back state Division IV championship and three-time CIF Southern

Section Division IV title squads.

“(Quinlan) should make an immediate impact at Brown,” Sumner said of

the 3,200-meter sensation, whose best time in the event is 11:08. “And

Katie loves that cross country stuff, running on wet grass and dirt.”

Last year’s Corona del Mar distance-running standout, Liz Morse, is a

freshman at Princeton.

“So they will all be visiting each other (during Ivy League meets),”

Sumner said.